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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created human Helen Cohn updated 2025-05-02 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005743b.htm person Sullivan John Vincent AACR2 1924 2013 Place of Birth Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia Place of Death Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Physicist Jack Sullivan was a physicist whose principal areas of work were in vacuum UV and atomic absorption spectroscopy, particularly sputtered vapours, and lamp development. At the CSIRO Division of Chemical Industry (later Chemical Physics), he was instrumental in the development of sealed hollow-cathode lamps, an essential source of atomic line spectra used in chemical analysis by atomic absorption spectroscopy. The 'boosted output' hollow-cathode lamps he developed with Alan Walsh in 1962 were patented and produced commercially for many years. Sullivan and Walsh also developed the technique of 'selective modulation' and used it to construct 'resonance detectors' which enabled atomic absorption analyses to be carried out without the need for a monochromator. For his research in spectroscopy Sullivan was awarded the David Syme Research Prize. He combined his scientific role in CSIRO with providing technical assistance for international scientific instrument makers. In retirement Sullivan worked as a consultant until 2007. 1949 1949 Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Queensland 1950 1984 Career position - Research scientist, CSIRO Division of Chemical Physics 1968 1968 Award - David Syme Research Prize (jointly), University of Melbourne 1984 1984 Life event - Retired David Syme Research Prize, The University of Melbourne (1904 - )

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1968

 CSIRO Division of Chemical Physics, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1958 - 1987)

Research Scientist 1950 - 1984

 'Sullivan, John Vincent (Jack)', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Sullivan, John Vincent (Jack) Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: John Vincent Sullivan 1924 - 2013 Swingler, A. L.; and Willis, J. B. John Vincent Sullivan 1924 - 2013 2014 Australian Physics 51 5 170