Person
Moore, Alan James William (1920 - 2005)
- Born
- 10 December 1920
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 4 October 2005
Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Physicist
Summary
Alan Moore was one of the pioneers of surface science during the twentieth century and a life-long employee of CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) and its successor, CSIRO. During this time, Moore authored at least two scientific publications in the 1940s on the adhesion of lubricated metals and became an early user of computer technology, in particular, CSIRAC for computation and modelling.
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Chronology
- 1941 - 1982
- Career position - Research Officer at CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - later CSIRO) Lubricants and Bearings Section / Division of Tribophysics / Division of Material Science
- 1942
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
- 1948
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Cambridge, UK
- 1970
- Award - Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
- September 1982
- Career position - Retired as Senior Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Division of Material Science
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Resources
- 'Moore, Alan James William (1920-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473839. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Moore, Alan James William', 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/P001757p.htm. Details
- Wolff, Helen, 'Alan James William Moore [1920-2005]', in CSIROpedia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation, 2018-09-06, https://csiropedia.csiro.au/alan-moore/. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 12 October 2026
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