Person
Rowe, Albert Percival (1898 - 1976)
CBE
- Born
- 23 March 1898
Launceston, Cornwall, England - Died
- 25 May 1976
Linton, Hertfordshire, England - Occupation
- Physicist
Summary
Albert Rowe was Defence Scientific Adviser and Chairman of the Defence Research and Development Policy Committee 1947-1948
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Chronology
- 1938 - 1945
- Career position - Chief Superintendent of the Telecommunications Research Establishment
- 1942
- Award - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- 1946
- Award - Medal for Merit (USA)
- 1946 - 1947
- Career position - Deputy Controller of Research and Development at Admiralty
- 1947 - 1948
- Career position - Chairman, Defence Research and Development Policy Committee and Defence Science Adviser to Australian Government
- 1948
- Career event - One Story of Radar published
- 1948 - 1955
- Career position - Vice-Chancellor, University of Adelaide
- 1955
- Award - Doctor of Laws (LLD), honoris causa, University of Melbourne
- 1957 -
- Award - Fellow, Imperial College of Science and Technology
- 1959
- Career event - If the Gown Fits published
Published resources
Book Sections
- Stretton, Hugh, 'Rowe, Albert Percival (1898-1976), Radar Pioneer and University Vice-Chancellor' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 16: 1940 - 1980 Pik-Z, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), pp. 136-137. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160164b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4711002. Details
- 'Rowe, Albert Percival (1898-1976)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1468527. Details
- 'Awarded honorary LLD, 1955', Honorary degree holders, University of Melbourne, 2023, https://about.unimelb.edu.au/notable-alumni-staff/honorary-degree-holders. Details
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_r.html. Details
- Brown, R. Hanbury; Minnett, Harry C; White, Fredrick W. G., 'Edward George Bowen 1911-1991', Historical Records of Australian Science, 9 (2) (1992), 151-166. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9920920151. Details
- Coates, J. H., 'Denis Oswald Jordan 1914-82', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (2) (1985), 237-246. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9850620237. Details
- Crompton, R. W., 'Leonard George Holden Huxley 1902-1988', Historical Records of Australian Science, 8 (4) (1991), 249-264. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9910840249.htm. Details
- Wisdom, John, A History of Defence Science in Australia (Melbourne: Defence Science and Technology Organisation, 1995), 267 pp. Details
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