Person

Makinson, Kathleen Rachel (1917 - 2014)

AM FTSE

Born
15 February 1917
England
Died
18 October 2014
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Physicist
Alternative Names
  • White, Kathleen Rachel (maiden name)

Summary

Kathleen Makinson was a Chief Research Officer, CSIRO Division of Textile Physics 1979-1982. She was a known authority in textile physics, particularly in wool felting friction and shrink proofing. Earlier she was Senior Principal Research Scientist 1971-1977, and Chief Research Scientist 1977-1982 in the Division, beginning her work there in 1953.

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Chronology

1939
Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA) completed at Newnham College, Cambridge, UK
1939 - 1941
Career position - Research Assistant in Physics, University of Sydney
1941 - 1944
Career position - Assistant Lecturer, University of Melbourne
1944 - 1945
Career position - CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Radiophysics Laboratory
1945 - 1950
Career position - Division of Physics, National Standards Laboratory
1950 - 1952
Career position - ICI Research Fellow in Electrical engineering, University of Leeds
1953 - 1955
Career position - CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Textile Physics
1957 - 1961
Career position - CSIRO Division of Textile Physics
1961 - 1963
Career position - Visiting Scientist, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
1964 - 1982
Career position - CSIRO Division of Textile Physics
1970
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Newnham College, Cambridge
1971 - 1977
Career position - Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Textile Physics
1977 - 1982
Career position - Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Textile Physics
1979 - 1982
Career position - Assistant Chief of Division of Textile Physics, CSIRO
1981 - 1987
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)
1982
Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - for public service
1987
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Awarded by AATS 1981]
2001
Award - Centenary Medal - for service to Australian society in textile physics

Related Corporate Bodies

Archival resources

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Corporate Records and Archives Strategies

  • Kathleen Rachel Makinson - Records, 1944 - 1982; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Corporate Records and Archives Strategies. Details

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection

  • Interview with Kathleen Rachel Makinson, wool researcher and Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Textile Physics [sound recording] / interviewer, Ragbir Bhathal, 1997, TRC 3564; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details

University of Sydney, Archives

  • Kathleen Rachel Makinson - Records, 1940 - 1983, P 148; University of Sydney, Archives. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Books

  • Bhathal, Ragbir, Profiles, Australian women scientists (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1999), 191 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Allen, Nessy, 'Australian Women in Science - a Comparative Study of Two Physicists', Metascience, 8 (2) (1990), 75-85. Details
  • Allen, Nessy, 'The Contribution of Two Australian Women Scientists to its Wool Industry', Prometheus, 9 (1) (1991), 81-92. Details

Resources

Resource Sections

Theses

  • Carey, Jane, 'Departing from their sphere: Australian women and science, 1880-1960', PhD thesis, The University of Melbourne, 2003, 356 pp. Details

See also

  • Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Handbook 2001 (Victoria: Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, 2001), 271 pp. Details
  • Aarons, Eric, 'Makinson, Richard Elliss Bodenham (1913-1979), Physicist and Communist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie, ed., vol. 15 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. 290-291. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150343b.htm. Details
  • Hooker, Claire, Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2004), 215 pp. Details

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