Person

Crompton, James Woodhouse (1924 - 2019)

Born
29 February 1924
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Died
12 November 2019
late of Estia Health, Toorak Gardens, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Occupation
Engineer

Summary

James Woodhouse Crompton BE ME FIEAust, was group leader responsible for the development of the Ikara shipboard command transmitter, tracking receiver and tracking antenna developed at the Weapons Research Establishment in the 1960s.

Skip to

Details

Chronology

c. 1944
Education - Bachelor of Engineering (BE), University of Adelaide
1945
Military service - Second World War. Lieutenant, Australian Infantry Forces
c. 1950
Education - Master of Engineering (ME), Imperial College, London
1951 - 1959
Career position - Scientific Officer, Weapons Research Establishment (WRE), Salisbury, South Australia
1959 - 1960
Career position - Physical Sciences Representative, Department of Supply, London
1960 - 1963
Career position - Principal Officer, various Groups, Weapons Research Establishment (WRE)
1962
Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1963 - 1965
Career position - Head, School of Applied Physics, South Australian Institute of Technology
1965 - 1969
Career position - Principal Officer, various Groups, Weapons Research Establishment (WRE)
1968
Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Associate Members were designated Members on this date.]
1970 - 1978
Career position - Superintendent, Systems Analysis Division, Weapons Research Establishment (WRE)
1972
Career event - Fellow (FIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1974
Career position - Chairman, South Australian Division, Institution of Engineers Australia
1978 - 1984
Career position - Director, Weapons Systems Research Laboratory, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), South Australia

Related Corporate Bodies

Published resources

Resources

See also

  • Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_c.html. Details
  • Wisdom, John, A History of Defence Science in Australia (Melbourne: Defence Science and Technology Organisation, 1995), 267 pp. Details

Rosanne Walker; Ken McInnes

Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 8 February 2024

EOAS ID: biogs/P003465b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003465b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260