Person

Townsend, Albert Alan (1917 - 2010)

FRS

Born: 22 January 1917
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died: 31 August 2010
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Occupation: Physicist

Summary

Albert Townsend was educated at the University of Melbourne and spent most of his working life at the University of Cambridge in England. There he was Assistant Director of the Cavendish Laboratory (1950-1961) and Reader in experimental fluid mechanics. He was renowned for his signiﬁcant research and contributions to understanding turbulence.

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Chronology

1936: Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
1937: Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne
1938 - 1939: Award - 1851 Exhibition Overseas Scholarship
1940 - 1945: Career position - Assistant at the Aeronautical Laboratory of CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)
1945 - 1947: Award - 1851 Exhibition Overseas Scholarship
1947: Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, England
1947 - 1961: Career position - Lecturer in Physics, University of Cambridge, England
1950 - 1961: Career position - Assistant Director of Research at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, England
1960: Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)
1961 -: Career position - Reader in Experimental Fluid Mechanics, University of Cambridge, England

Related Corporate Bodies

CSIR Division of Aeronautics, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (1940 - 1949)
Assistant at the Aeronautical Laboratory 1940 - 1945

Published resources

Articles

'Obituary Notice' (2010), http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2010-11/weekly/6199/section6.shtml. Details

Resources

Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21165037. Details
VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/22222018. Details
'Townsend, A A (1917-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1021250. Details

Resource Sections

'Townsend, Albert Alan', 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/P001827p.htm. Details

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