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Wood, Francis Waverley (1905 - )

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Physicist

Born: 12 June 1905 Albany, Western Australia, Australia

Francis Waverley Wood worked in many fields of physics across Australia and in the United Kingdom and United States of America. He posts included Officer-in-charge at the Watheroo Magentic Observatory (1946-1949) and Deputy Director of Trials at the Weapons Research Establishment (1965-1968).

Career Highlights

Chronology
1926 Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Western Australia
1926 - 1932 Assistant at the Watheroo Magnetic Observatory in Western Australia
1936 - 1937 Research Officer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough, UK
1937 - 1946 Research Physicist at CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Radio Research Board
1946 - 1949 Observer-in-charge of the Watheroo Magnetic Observatory
1949 - 1951 Research Fellow at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA
1951 - 1956 Assistant Chief Geophysicist with the Bureau of Mineral Resources
1956 - 1965 Superintendent of Optical Instrumentation at the Weapons Research Establishment in South Australia
1965 - 1968 Deputy Director of Trials at the Weapons Research Establishment

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'Wood, Francis Waverley', 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/P001846p.htm. [ Details ]

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

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