Person
Wood, Francis Waverley (1905 - 1977)
- Born
- 12 June 1905
Albany, Western Australia, Australia - Died
- 1977
- Occupation
- Physicist
Summary
Francis Wood worked in many fields of physics across Australia and in the United Kingdom and United States of America. He posts included Officer-in-charge at the Watheroo Magnetic Observatory (1946-1949) and Deputy Director of Trials at the Weapons Research Establishment (1965-1968).
Details
Chronology
- 1926
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Western Australia
- 1926 - 1932
- Career position - Assistant at the Watheroo Magnetic Observatory in Western Australia
- 1936 - 1937
- Career position - Research Officer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough, UK
- 1937 - 1946
- Career position - Research Physicist at CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Radio Research Board
- 1946 - 1949
- Career position - Observer-in-charge of the Watheroo Magnetic Observatory
- 1949 - 1951
- Career position - Research Fellow at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA
- 1951 - 1956
- Career position - Assistant Chief Geophysicist with the Bureau of Mineral Resources
- 1956 - 1965
- Career position - Superintendent of Optical Instrumentation at the Weapons Research Establishment in South Australia
- 1965 - 1968
- Career position - Deputy Director of Trials at the Weapons Research Establishment
Related entries
Published resources
Resources
- 'Wood, Francis Waverley (1905-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476178. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Wood, Francis Waverley', 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/P001846p.htm. Details
See also
- Wisdom, John, A History of Defence Science in Australia (Melbourne: Defence Science and Technology Organisation, 1995), 267 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 23 February 2024
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