Person
Philip, John Robert (1927 - 1999)
AO FAA FRS
- Born
- 18 January 1927
Melbourne?, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 26 June 1999
Amsterdam, Netherlands - Occupation
- Civil engineer
Summary
John Philip was Chief of the Division of Environmental Mechanics, CSIRO from 1971 to 1980, and from 1983 to 1991. From 1980 to 1983 he was first Director of the CSIRO Institute of Physical Sciences. He was Australia's most distinguished environmental physicist and made outstanding contributions to research in soil water physics, micrometeorology, the soil-atmosphere continuum, and measurement methods in the context of the biosphere
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Chronology
- 1948 - 1951
- Career position - Engineer, Queensland Irrigation Commission
- 1951 - 1961
- Career position - Research scientist, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry
- 1957
- Award - Robert E. Horton Medal, American Geophysical Union
- 1957 - 1958
- Career position - Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, U.S.A.
- 1961 - 1962
- Career position - Nuffield Foundation Dominion Fellow, University of Cambridge
- 1961 - 1963
- Career position - Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry
- 1963 - 1970
- Career position - Chief Research Scientist and Assistant Chief, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry
- 1966
- Award - David Rivett Medal, Australian Academy of Science
- 1966 - 1967
- Career position - Australian-American Education Foundation Senior Scholar and Research Fellow, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- 1967 - 2019
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 1970
- Career position - President, Section 1 Physics, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1970 - 1971
- Career position - Acting Chief, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry
- 1971
- Career position - President, Section 8 Mathematics, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1971 - 1980
- Career position - Chief of the Division, CSIRO Division of Environmental Mechanics
- 1972
- Career position - Vinton-Hayes Fellow, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, .U.S.A.
- 1972 - 1978
- Career position - Member of Council, Australian Academy of Science
- 1974 - 1978
- Career position - Biological Secretary, Australian Academy of Science
- 1974 - 2019
- Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)
- 1975
- Career position - Co-ordinator, SciTaskforce, Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration
- 1979
- Career position - Visiting Professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
- 1980 - 1983
- Career position - Director, CSIRO Institute of Physical Sciences
- 1981
- Award - Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal, Australian Academy of Science
- 1981
- Award - Robert E. Horton Medal, American Geophysical Union
- 1981 - 1999
- Award - Fellow, American Geophysical Union
- 1983
- Award - Doctor of Engineering (DEng), honoris causa, University of Melbourne
- 1983 - 1991
- Career position - Chief of the Division, CSIRO Division of Environmental Mechanics
- 1990
- Award - Eminent Researcher Award, Australian Water Resources Advisory Council
- 1991 - 1999
- Award - Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- 1992
- Award - DPh honoris causa, Agricultural University of Athens
- 1992 - 1999
- Award - Emeritus CSIRO Fellow
- 1992 - 1999
- Award - Fellow, Soil Science Society of America
- 1994
- Award - Visiting Fellow Commonership, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
- 1995
- Award - DSc honoris causa, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
- 1995 - 1999
- Award - Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Engineering
- 1998
- Award - Jaeger Medal, Australian Academy of Science
- 1998
- Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to the science of hydrology, to scientific communication in promoting the interests of science for the community, and to Australian culture through architecture and literature
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- John Robert Philip - Records, 1974 - 1979, MS 224; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details
Journal Articles
- Philip, J. R., 'Science and the Word', Search, 4 (4) (1973), 112-115. Details
- Smiles, David, 'John Robert Philip 18 January 1927 - 26 June 1999', Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 51 (2005), 329-45, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2005.0021. Details
- Smiles, David, 'John Robert Philip, 1927-1999', Historical Records of Australian Science, 16 (2) (2005), 221-246. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR05008. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6253969. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/94483137. Details
- 'Philip, J R (1927-1999)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-619387. Details
- 'Awarded honorary DEng, 1983', Honorary degree holders, University of Melbourne, 2023, https://about.unimelb.edu.au/notable-alumni-staff/honorary-degree-holders. Details
Resource Sections
- Ward, C., 'John Robert Philip', in CSIROpedia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 2011, https://csiropedia.csiro.au/Philip-John-Robert. Details
See also
- Who's who in Australia 1995 (Melbourne: Information Australia Group, 1995), 1622 pp. Details
- Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, 2023. https://www.science.org.au/supporting-science/awards-and-opportunities/thomas-ranken-lyle-medal. Details
Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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