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Courtney-Pratt, Jeofry Stuart (1920 - )

Physical chemist and Applied physicist

Born: 31 January 1920 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Jeofry Stuart Courtney-Pratt was a sort after physicist who worked for Australia's key industrial research organization, CSIR and several overseas companies. He was the Assistant Director of Research in physics at Cambridge, and Head of several departments at the American giants Bell Telephone Laboratories and AT&T Information Systems Laboratories.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1940 - 1946 Assistant at the Lubricants and Bearings Section of CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)
1942 Bachelor of Education (Bed) completed at the University of Tasmania
1947 - 1949 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge, UK (1851 Ehibition Senior Scholarship)
1953 - 1957 Assistant Director of Research of the Department of Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge
1958 Doctor of Science (ScD) received from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
1958 - 1969 Head of the Department of Mechanics and Optics at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, USA
1969 - 1982 Head of the Department of Applied Physics at Bell Telephone Laboratories
1983 - Head of the Station Technology Department at the AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, USA

Online Sources

'Courtney-Pratt, Jeofry Stuart', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001630p.htm. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 24 May 2005

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