Person
McGee, James Dwyer (1903 - 1987)
OBE FRS
- Born
- 17 December 1903
Tuggeranong, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 28 February 1987
Auckland, New Zealand - Occupation
- Physicist
Summary
James McGee was a long-term research physicist specialising in the field of photoelectronics at EMI from 1931 to 1954, and as Professor and Senior Research Fellow of Applied Physics at Imperial College, London 1954 -1980.
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Chronology
- 1927
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Sydney
- 1928
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Sydney
- 1928 - 1931
- Award - 1851 Exhibition Overseas Scholarship
- 1931
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Cambridge, UK
- 1931 - 1954
- Career position - Research Physicist with E.M.I. Ltd., UK
- 1 Jan 1952
- Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
- 1954 - 1971
- Career position - Professor of Applied Physics, Imperial College, London
- 1965
- Education - Doctor of Science (ScD), University of Cambridge
- 1966
- Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)
- 1971 - 1980
- Career position - Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Morgan, B. L., 'James Dwyer McGee, 17 December 1903 - 28 February 1987', Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 34 (1988), 513-55. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1988.0017. Details
Resources
- Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society [Online resource], Royal Society of London, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1988.0017. Details
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21165264. Details
- 'McGee, James Dwyer (1903-1987)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475533. Details
Resource Sections
- 'McGee, James Dwyer', 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/P001734p.htm. Details
See also
- Davies, Susan, 'R. v.d. R. Wooley in Australia', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (1) (1984), 59-69. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9840610059. Details
Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 11 September 2024
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