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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-04-10 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001637b.htm person Downes John Godkin AACR2 5 September 1917 12 December 1984 Place of Birth Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Place of Death Hawk's Nest, New South Wales, Australia Radiophysicist Scientific liaison officer John Downes was Scientific Counsellor with the Australian Embassy in Moscow from 1976 to 1979. Prior to this he was chief of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's (CSIRO) Division of Textile Physics. Altogether he spent around thirty years working for the CSIRO (formally the CSIR). 1938 1945 Career position - Engineer, Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd (AWA) 1945 1951 Career position - Research Scientist in the Division of Radiophysics at CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)/CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) 1946 1946 Education - Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc(Hons)), London University? 1951 1968 Career position - Research Scientist in the Division of Textile Physics at CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) 1969 1975 Career position - Chief Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Textile Physics 1976 1979 Career position - Counsellor (Scientific) of the Australian Embassy in Moscow CSIRO Division of Textile Physics, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1958 - 1988)

Research Scientist 1951 - 1968; Chief Scientist 1969 - 1975

 CSIR/O Division of Radiophysics, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1940 - 1996)

Research Scientist 1945 - 1951

 Downes, John Godkin (1917-1984)

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 'Downes, John Godkin', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Downes, John Godkin Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: Downes, John Godkin Downes, John Godkin Australian Science Archives Project 1995 Physics in Australia to 1945 R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham