Person
Dalton, George Clifford James (1916 - 1961)
- Born
- 20 May 1916
Te Awamuti, New Zealand - Died
- 17 July 1961
Caringbah, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Nuclear physicist
Summary
George Dalton worked for the Australian Atomic Energy Commission as Chief Engineer from 1955 to 1961. Before that he was Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Auckland University where he had many years earlier completed a (BE, BSc) followed by a DPhil at the University of Oxford.
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Chronology
- 1941 - 1945
- Career position - Squadron Leader with the Technical Branch of the Royal Air Force
- 1947 - 1949
- Career position - Engineer at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment PSO, Harwell
- 1949 - 1955
- Career position - Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Auckland University
- 1955 - 1961
- Career position - Chief Engineer, Australian Atomic Energy Commission
Published resources
Book Sections
- Hazlehurst, Cameron, 'Dalton, George Clifford James (1916-1961), engineer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 13: 1940 - 1980 A-De, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993), pp. 565-566. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dalton-george-clifford-james-9894. Details
Journal Articles
- Watson-Munro, C. N., 'Obituary: Dr. G. C. J. Dalton', Australian Journal of Science, 24 (11) (1961), 232-233. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5132916. Details
- 'Dalton, George Clifford James (1916-1961)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469722. Details
See also
- Dalton, C. R., Without hardware (Canberra: Nicholson Printing and Publishing, 1970), 226 pp. Details
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Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 5 March 2018