Person
Freeman, Joan (1918 - 1998)
- Born
- 7 January 1918
Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Died
- 18 March 1998
- Occupation
- Physicist
Summary
Joan Freeman began her career at CSIR Radiophysics Laboratory during World War II, working on the production of a 10cm microwave radar set. She spent most of her working life at the British Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell.
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Chronology
- 1939
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Sydney
- 1941 - 1946
- Career position - CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Radiophysics Laboratory
- 1943
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Sydney
- 1946 - 1951
- Career position - Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, UK
- 1951 - 1978
- Career position - Van de Graaff Accelerator Group at Harwell Nuclear Physics Division
- 1976
- Award - Rutherford Medal, British Institute of Physics
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- Australasian Science, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/journal.htm. Details
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Articles
- 'Dr. Joan Freeman (Address for the Gordon Godfrey Inaugural Lecture - May 1993)', WISENET Journal, 32 (July) (1993), http://www.wisenet-australia.org/profiles/jfreeman.htm. Details
- 'In Memory: Joan Freeman, a Passionate Physicist, 1918-1998', WISENET Journal, 48 (July) (1998), http://www.wisenet-australia.org/issue48/obits.htm. Details
- Allen, Nessy, 'Joan Freeman - an Australian Nuclear Physicist', WISENET Journal, 20 (September) (1989), http://www.wisenet-australia.org/profiles/freeman.htm. Details
- Sherratt, Tim, 'A Passion for Physics; Joan Freeman', Australasian Science, Winter (1993), http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_freeman.htm. Details
Books
- Freeman, Joan, A Passion for Physics: the Story of a Woman Physicist (Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1991), 240 pp. Details
- The Radiophysics Laboratory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, A Textbook of Radar (Sydney; London: Angus & Robertson, 1947), 579 pp. Author of Chapter 11. Details
Conference Papers
- Allen, Nessy, 'Cross-National Careers: the Interchange of Women Scientists to and From Australia', in Australia in the world: perceptions and possibilities: papers from the Outside Images of Australia Conference, Perth, 1992 edited by Don Grant and Graham Seal (Perth: Black Swan Press, 1992).. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21531658. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/77211936. Details
- 'Freeman, Joan (1918-1998)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-754071. Details
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Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 16 September 2004