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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-12-02 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000618b.htm person Makinson Kathleen Rachel AM FTSE AACR2 White, Kathleen Rachel 15 February 1917 18 October 2014 Place of Birth England Place of Death Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Physicist Rachel Makinson was a Chief Research Officer, CSIRO Division of Textile Physics 1979-1982. She was a known authority in textile physics, particularly in wool felting friction and shrink proofing. Earlier she was Senior Principal Research Scientist 1971-1977, and Chief Research Scientist 1977-1982 in the Division, beginning her work there in 1953. She was originally employed by CSIR Division of Radiophysics during WWII from 1945. 1939 1939 Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), Newnham College, Cambridge, UK 1939 1941 Career position - Research Assistant in Physics, University of Sydney 1941 1944 Career position - Assistant Lecturer, University of Melbourne 1944 1945 Career position - CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Radiophysics Laboratory 1945 1950 Career position - Division of Physics, National Standards Laboratory 1950 1952 Career position - ICI Research Fellow in Electrical engineering, University of Leeds 1953 1955 Career position - CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Textile Physics 1957 1961 Career position - CSIRO Division of Textile Physics 1961 1963 Career position - Visiting Scientist, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge 1964 1982 Career position - CSIRO Division of Textile Physics 1970 1970 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Newnham College, Cambridge 1971 1977 Career position - Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Textile Physics 1977 1982 Career position - Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Textile Physics 1979 1982 Career position - Assistant Chief of Division of Textile Physics, CSIRO 1981 1987 Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS) 1982 1982 Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - for public service 1987 1987 Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Awarded by AATS 1981] 1 Jan 2001 1 Jan 2001 Award - Centenary Medal - for service to Australian society in textile physics Makinson, Richard Elliss Bodenham (1913 - 1979) CSIRO Division of Textile Physics, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1958 - 1988)

Researcher 1953 - 1955; 1957 - 1961; 1964 - 1971. Senior Principal Research Scientist 1971 - 1977; Chief Research Scientist 1977 - 1982; Assistant Chief 1979 - 1982.

 Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (1975 - 1987)

Fellow 1981 - 1987

 Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (1987 - )

Fellow 1987 [Elected Fellow AATS 1981]

 Makinson, K Rachel (19170215-20140916)

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 'Makinson, Kathleen Rachel (Rachel)', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Makinson, Kathleen Rachel (Rachel) Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Thesis: Departing from their sphere: Australian women and science, 1880-1960 Carey, Jane Departing from their sphere: Australian women and science, 1880-1960 Melbourne The University of Melbourne 2003 Resource Section: Makinson, Kathleen Rachel Makinson, Kathleen Rachel Australian Science Archives Project 1995 Physics in Australia to 1945 R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham Journal Article: Textile Physics and the Wool Industry: an Australian Woman Scientist's Contribution [Kathleen Rachel Makinson] Allen, Nessy Textile Physics and the Wool Industry: an Australian Woman Scientist's Contribution [Kathleen Rachel Makinson] 1993 Agricultural History 67 1 67-80 Book: Profiles, Australian women scientists Bhathal, Ragbir Profiles, Australian women scientists Canberra National Library of Australia 1999 Journal Article: The Contribution of Two Australian Women Scientists to its Wool Industry [Kathleen Rachel Makinson and Helen Alma Newton Turner] Allen, Nessy The Contribution of Two Australian Women Scientists to its Wool Industry [Kathleen Rachel Makinson and Helen Alma Newton Turner] 1991 Prometheus 9 1 81-92 Journal Article: Australian Women in Science - a Comparative Study of Two Physicists [Kathleen Rachel Makinson] Allen, Nessy Australian Women in Science - a Comparative Study of Two Physicists [Kathleen Rachel Makinson] 1990 Metascience 8 2 75-85 Resource Section: Kathleen Rachel Makinson Ward, C. Kathleen Rachel Makinson Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) 2011 CSIROpedia Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Book Section: Invisible Workers and Invisible Barriers: Women in the CSIR in the 1930s and the 1940s Alvarez, Amaya Jane Invisible Workers and Invisible Barriers: Women in the CSIR in the 1930s and the 1940s Melbourne Text Publishing Company 1993 On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science Farley Kelly 77-103 Book Section: Makinson, Richard Elliss Bodenham (1913-1979), physicist and communist Aarons, Eric Makinson, Richard Elliss Bodenham (1913-1979), physicist and communist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2000 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie John Ritchie 290-291 Book: Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Handbook 2001 Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Handbook 2001 Victoria Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering 2001 Book: Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science Hooker, Claire Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science Carlton Melbourne University Press 2004 Interview with Kathleen Rachel Makinson, wool researcher and Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Textile Physics [sound recording] / interviewer, Ragbir Bhathal National Library of Australia Oral History Collection Interview with Kathleen Rachel Makinson, wool researcher and Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Textile Physics [sound recording] / interviewer, Ragbir Bhathal TRC 3564 1997 1 digital audio tape (ca. 70 min.) and transcript (38 leaves). Makinson speaks of her childhood in London and her inclinations towards science at school, winning a scholarship to Newnham College at University of Cambridge, her preference for physics, her interest in crystallography, how she might have continued at Cambridge in nuclear physics, participating in student politics in both communism and the Peace Movement, demonstrating in London against the invasion of Austria, becoming engaged to an Australian doing his doctorate at Cambridge; emigrating to Australia in 1939; work as a research assistant at the University of Sydney and her involvement in radar research during WWII; the difficulties for women applying for research positions during the War, how she ended up in wool research in CSIRO; how it was not possible to undertake doctorates in Australia during that period; returning to Cambridge in 1970; why CSIRO set up a Wool Physics Division; how her work contributed to efficiencies in wool shrinkage. Kathleen Rachel Makinson - Records Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Corporate Records and Archives Strategies Kathleen Rachel Makinson - Records 1944 - 1982 Information and records in the official CSIR/O files c1944-82. Kathleen Rachel Makinson - Records University of Sydney, Archives Kathleen Rachel Makinson - Records P 148 1940 - 1983 Information and records in the R.E.B. Makinson collection c1940-83 [P 148]. Photographs