Person
Courtney-Pratt, Jeofry Stuart (1920 - 1995)
- Born
- 31 January 1920
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia - Died
- 1995
- Occupation
- Physical chemist and Applied physicist
Summary
Jeofry Courtney-Pratt was a sort after physicist who worked for Australia's key industrial research organization, CSIR and several overseas companies. He was the Assistant Director of Research in physics at Cambridge, and Head of several departments at the American giants Bell Telephone Laboratories and AT&T Information Systems Laboratories.
Details
Chronology
- 1940 - 1946
- Career position - Assistant at the Lubricants and Bearings Section of CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)
- 1942
- Education - Bachelor of Education (BEd), University of Tasmania
- 1947 - 1949
- Award - 1851 Exhibition Research Fellowship [Physics and Physical Engineering. - The structure and interaction of solid surfaces; physical methods for studying fast transient phenomena. University of Cambridge]
- 1953 - 1957
- Career position - Assistant Director of Research of the Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Cambridge
- 1958
- Education - Doctor of Science (ScD), Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
- 1958 - 1969
- Career position - Head of the Department of Mechanics and Optics, Bell Telephone Laboratories, USA
- 1969 - 1982
- Career position - Head of the Department of Applied Physics, Bell Telephone Laboratories, USA
- 1983 -
- Career position - Head of the Station Technology Department, AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, USA
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, Record of the science research scholars of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, 1891 - 1960 (London: The Commissioners, 1961), 107 pp. Senior Student - Entry No.95. Details
Journal Articles
- White, Guy, 'Jeofrey Courtney-Pratt 1920 - 1995', Australian and New Zealand physicist, 32 (10) (1995), 227. Details
Resources
- 'Courtney-Pratt, Jeofry Stuart (1920-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475552. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Courtney-Pratt, Jeofry Stuart', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001630p.htm. Details
Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 10 September 2024
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