Person

Courtney-Pratt, Jeofry Stuart (1920 - 1995)

Born
31 January 1920
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Died
1995
Occupation
Physical chemist and Applied physicist

Summary

Jeofry 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.

Details

Chronology

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

Published resources

Journal Articles

  • White, Guy, 'Jeofrey Courtney-Pratt 1920 - 1995', Australian and New Zealand physicist, 32 (10) (1995), 227. Details

Resources

Resource Sections

Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes

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