Person
Townsend, Albert Alan (1917 - 2010)
FRS
- Born
- 22 January 1917
- Died
- 31 August 2010
- 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.
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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 Scholar
- 1940 - 1945
- Career position - Assistant at the Aeronautical Laboratory of CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)
- 1945 - 1947
- Award - 1851 Exhibition Scholar
- 1947
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1947 - 1961
- Career position - Lecturer in Physics, University of Cambridge
- 1950 - 1961
- Career position - Assistant Director of Research at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
- 1960
- Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)
- 1961 -
- Career position - Reader in Experimental Fluid Mechanics, University of Cambridge
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
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 1 March 2018
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