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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2019-12-13 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001664b.htm person Gill Thomas Perrott AACR2 17 October 1916 29 September 2006 Place of Birth Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Physicist Thomas Gill worked for as a physicist in the Australian munitions and weapons industries from 1940 to 1960. In his early work at the Defence Standards Laboratories he was involved in optics and pioneered the development of stable thin metal bolometers. At the Weapons Research Establishment Gill worked in upper atmospheric research and was liaison officer for the British Universities, overseeing their projects using the Skylark rocket. In 1961 he moved to Scotland to join R V Jones in the Natural Philosophy (physics) Department at the University of Aberdeen. There he lectured in optics, researched and designed highly sensitive measuring equipment and became known as a leader on the Doppler Effect. Returning to Australia in 1968, Thomas Gill joined the Swinburne Institute of Technology where he lectured in Physics and Philosophy of Science. 1937 1937 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne 1939 1939 Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne 1940 1954 Career position - Physicist with Munitions Supply Laboratories in Maribyrnong, Victoria 1954 1960 Career position - Physicist with Weapons Research Establishment in South Australia 1961 1961 Career position - Senior Research Fellow (in natural philosophy?) at Marischal College in Aberdeen, Scotland 1961 1967 Career position - Lecturer at Marischal College 1968 1978 Career position - Lecturer in Physics at Swinburne Institute of Technology, Melbourne Gill, T P (1916-2006)

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