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Wood, Herbert Boyne (1909 - )

OBE

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Radio engineer and Business executive

Born: 21 June 1909 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Herbert Boyne Wood worked as a radio engineer in Australia and held executive positions in the Malaysian and Hong Kong branches of the company I.T.T. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1945.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1929 Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Sydney
1930 - 1931 Radio Design Engineer at Philips Lamps Australasia Ltd. in Sydney
1931 Bachelor of Engineering (BE) completed at the University of Sydney
1931 - 1933 Research Officer at the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Radio Research Board
1933 - 1936 Research Fellow in Engineering at the University of Sydney
1936 - 1941 Chief Radio Transmission Engineer at TS.TC. Ltd. in Sydney
1938 Master of Engineering (ME) completed at the University of Sydney
1942 - 1945 Lieutenant-colonel with the Royal Australian Engineers in the South West Pacific region
1945 Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
1946 - 1962 Chief Engineer and Technical Director of TC.T.C Ltd.
1962 - 1968 Vice-President and Area Technical Director of I.T.T. Far East & Pacific Inc. in Hong Kong
1968 - 1971 Managing Director of I.T.T. Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur

Online Sources

'Wood, Herbert Boyne', 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/P001847p.htm. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 7 September 2005

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