Person
Gill, Thomas Perrott (1916 - 2006)
- Born
- 17 October 1916
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 29 September 2006
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Physicist
Summary
Thomas Gill worked for as a physicist in the Australian munitions and weapons industries from 1940 to 1960. In his early work at the Defence Standards Laboratories he was involved in optics and pioneered the development of stable thin metal bolometers. At the Weapons Research Establishment Gill worked in upper atmospheric research and was liaison officer for the British Universities, overseeing their projects using the Skylark rocket. In 1961 he moved to Scotland to join R V Jones in the Natural Philosophy (physics) Department at the University of Aberdeen. There he lectured in optics, researched and designed highly sensitive measuring equipment and became known as a leader on the Doppler Effect. Returning to Australia in 1968, Thomas Gill joined the Swinburne Institute of Technology where he lectured in Physics and Philosophy of Science.
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Chronology
- 1937
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
- 1939
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne
- 1940 - 1954
- Career position - Physicist with Munitions Supply Laboratories in Maribyrnong, Victoria
- 1954 - 1960
- Career position - Physicist with Weapons Research Establishment in South Australia
- 1961
- Career position - Senior Research Fellow (in natural philosophy?) at Marischal College in Aberdeen, Scotland
- 1961 - 1967
- Career position - Lecturer at Marischal College
- 1968 - 1978
- Career position - Lecturer in Physics at Swinburne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Published resources
Resources
- 'Gill, T P (1916-2006)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1033476. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Gill, Thomas Perrott', 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/P001664p.htm. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 28 February 2018
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