Person
Petrie, Douglas Percival Ramsay (1910 - 1963)
- Born
- 9 October 1910
Mosman, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 13 October 1963
Aldermaston, Berkshire, England - Occupation
- Physicist
Summary
Douglas Petrie spent most of his professional life working in the United Kingdom. During his career he wrote at least one physics article.
Details
Chronology
- 1931
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
- 1933
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne
- 1934 - 1937
- Award - 1851 Exhibition Overseas Scholarship [Physics. - The focusing of ion beams by electrostatic lenses. The radioactivity produced by the bombardment of lithium with deuterons. University of Cambridge]
- 1937 - 1947
- Career position - Research Physicist, Standard Telephones & Cables Ltd., UK
- 1947 - 1957
- Career position - Physicist in charge of Nuclear Physics Section, Research Laboratory of Associated Electrical Industries Ltd., UK
- 1957 - 1963
- Career position - Section Leader, Electron Physics Section, Research Laboratory of Associated Electrical Industries Ltd., UK
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Published resources
Books
- Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, Record of the science research scholars of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, 1891 - 1960 (London: The Commissioners, 1961), 107 pp. Overseas Scholarship - Entry No.100. Details
Resources
- 'Petrie, Douglas Percival Ramsay (1910-1963)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473742. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Petrie, Douglas Percival Ramsay', 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/P001780p.htm. Details
Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 8 October 2026
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