Person

McCready, Lindsay Leslie (1919 - 1976)

Born
2 January 1919
Leeton, New South Wales, Australia
Died
27 August 1976
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Engineer and Radio engineer

Summary

Lindsay McCready was an engineer specialising in radio receiver systems. After being employed by AWA before WWII, he joined the CSIR/O Division of Radiophysics where he worked closely with Joe Pawsey. In October 1945, the first successful Australian radio observations of the sun were made at the RAAF radar station, Collaroy Plateau Park, Sydney, by Pawsey, McCready and Ruby Payne-Scott. McCready ultimately became head of all engineering services at the Division.

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Chronology

1937 - 1949
Career event - Junior Member (JrIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

Published resources

Book Sections

  • Gascoigne, S. C. B., 'Australian Astronomy Since the Second World War' in Australian Science in the Making, R. W. Home, ed. (Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 345-373. Details
  • Jarrell, Richard A., 'McCready, Lindsay Leslie' in Biographical encyclopedia of astronomers (New York: Springer, 2016), pp. 1436-7, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_9406. Details

Journal Articles

  • McCready, L. L., Pawsey, J. L. and Payne-Scott, R., 'Solar radiation at radio frequencies and its relation to sun spots', Proceedings of the Royal Society, A, 190 (1947), 357-75. Details
  • Pawsey, J. L., Payne Scott, R. and McCready. L. L., 'Radio-frequency energy from the sun', Nature, 157 (1946), 158-9. Details

See also

  • Goss, W. M.; Hooker, Claire; and Ekers, Ronald D., Joe Pawsey and the founding of Australian radio astronomy: early discoveries, from the sun to the cosmos (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2023), 1815 pp. Details

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Created: 16 September 2025

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