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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2018-03-13 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-10-14 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006006b.htm person Smrz Pavel Karel AACR2 10 December 1937 26 July 2014 Place of Birth Prague, Czechoslovakia Place of Death Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia Mathematician Physicist University Administrator Pavel Smrz was a physicist and mathematician whose early research on collision of elementary particles and differential geometry was conducted in the U.S.S.R. and Canada. In 1971 he joined the University of Newcastle where his teaching was mainly in the areas of algebra and statistics. His published output was largely in the fields of nuclear physics and general relativity. 1960 1960 Education - Graduated in physics from Charles University, Prague 1961 1962 Career position - Research assistant, High Energy Physics Laboratory, Physics Institute, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences 1962 1965 Career position - Research assistant, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, U.S.S.R. 1965 1965 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Charles University, Prague 1965 1966 Career position - Canadian National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship, Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada 1967 1970 Career position - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 1971 Career position - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 1975 1975 Career position - Visiting Fellow, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 1977 1977 Career position - Visiting Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand 1983 1983 Career position - Visiting fellow, University of Catania, Sicily 1985 1990 Career position - Head, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Newcastle 1997 1997 Life event - Retired The University of Newcastle (1965 - )

Head, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science 1985 - 1990

 'Smrz, Pavel Karel', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Smrz, Pavel Karel Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Pavel Karel Smrz 10 December 1937 to 26 July 2014 Giles, John R. Pavel Karel Smrz 10 December 1937 to 26 July 2014 2014 Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society 41 4 233-5