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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1997-06-30 human Rosanne Walker and Helen Cohn updated 2025-02-04 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002745b.htm person Gottlieb Kurt AACR2 1910 21 July 1995 Place of Birth Graz, Austria Place of Death Concord, New South Wales, Australia Mechanical engineer Curt Gottlieb qualified as a mechanical engineer in Czechoslovakia, working there until he fled to Italy at the start of WWII. He was on the last boat to leave Genoa for Australia before Italy entered the War. Finding his qualifications were not recognised in Australia, Gottlieb trained as a draftsman. He was one of the refugees who joined the technical staff of the Commonwealth Solar Observatory at Mount Stromlo near Canberra, after the Director, Richard Woolley, requested assistance from the Australian Government to address a staff shortage. Gottlieb remained at the Observatory until he retired in 1976. During the War he was involved in optical munitions work, designing more than eleven different instruments including several for the Army Inventions Directorate. After the end of the War he was research engineer in charge of the Observatory's workshops. Major projects in which he was involved included the reconstruction of the Great Melbourne Telescope when it was rescued from oblivion after the Melbourne Observatory closed in 1945. This telescope was used for over 20 years and made headlines when used in the search for dark matter. With colleague Clabon Allen, Gottlieb invented an electron multiplier photometer with a slitless spectrograph which was attached to 30.4-inch Reynolds telescope in August 1947. He took the first photograph of the Russian satellite Sputnik. In 1957, when the Australian National University assumed responsibility for the Observatory, he was appointed Research Fellow at the Research School of Physical Science. Gottlieb was active in the Jewish community in the Australian Capital Territory, serving as President from 1962 to 1964. April 1940 April 1940 Life event - Arrived in Australia c. 1941 Career event - Appointed to technical staff, Commonwealth Solar Observatory 1957 1976 Career position - Research Fellow, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University 1962 1964 Career position - President, Australian Capita Territory Jewish Community 1976 1976 Life event - Retired from Mount Stromlo Observatory Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, Australian National University (c. 1967 - )

Retired as research engineer 1976

 Commonwealth Solar Observatory, Commonwealth of Australia (1924 - c. 1950)

Appointed to the technical staff c.1941

 Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University (1946 - )

Research Fellow 1957 - 1976

 Optical Munitions Panel (1940 - 1945)

Associated with the Panel, c1940 - 1945, through his work at the Commonwealth Solar Observatory, Mount Stromlo.

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 Gottlieb, Kurt (19101005-19950721)

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 'Gottlieb, Kurt', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Gottlieb, Kurt Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: Gottlieb, Kurt Gottlieb, Kurt Australian Science Archives Project 1997 The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition A Bright Sparcs Exhibition Newspaper Article: Refugee engineer had precision in his sights Doobov, Mervyn, and S.C. Gascoigne Refugee engineer had precision in his sights 1995 The Australian 13