Hannaford, Peter (1939 - )

Summary

Peter Hannaford is a Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. He is also Institutional Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics at Swinburne University of Technology. While at CSIRO in the 1970s to the 1990s he pioneered new techniques in high resolution and time-resolved laser spectroscopy which have been important for characterisation of the spectroscopic properties of a wide range of atoms. In recent years he and his group at Swinburne University have made important advances in the new fields of laser cooling of atoms, atom optics, Bose-Einstein condensation, and femtosecond laser spectroscopy. He has received a number of honours and awards and has published over 150 papers in scientific journals and books.

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Chronology

1958 - 1961

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne

1962 - 1963

Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne

1964 - 1966

Career position - Physics Tutor at Ormond College, University of Melbourne

1964 - 1968

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Melbourne

1967 - 1971

Career position - Research Scientist at the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Chemical Physics

1971 - 1983

Career position - Senior Research Scientist then Principal Research Scientists (1974) at the CSIRO Division of Chemical Physics

1972 - 1973

Career position - Guest Scientist, University of Reading (JJ Thompson Physical Laboratory), UK

1978

Career position - Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Science at Griffith University in Brisbane

1981 - 1982

Career position - Science Research Council Senior Research Fellow, University of Reading (JJ Thompson Physical Laboratory)

1983 -

Career position - Senior Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Division of Chemical Physics

1983 - 1989

Career position - Visiting Fellow in the Department of Physics and Theoretical Physics, Australian National University in Canberra (numerous visits)

1984

Career position - William Evans Visiting Fellow, University of Otago in New Zealand

1985 -

Career position - Member of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee fro Spectroscopy

1985

Award - Walter Boas Medal, Australian Institute of Physics

1987 -

Award - Fellow, Australian Institute of Physics

1989

Award - Royal Society of Victoria Medal for Excellence in Scientific Research

1989

Career position - Royal Society Guest Research Fellow and Visiting Fellow at Christ Church College, University of Oxford, UK

1989 - 2001

Career position - Chief Research Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Materials Science and Technology in Clayton, Victoria

1990 - 2000

Career position - Professorial Associate, University of Melbourne

1991 -

Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1991

Career position - Australian Academy of Science-Royal Society Exchange Fellow in Oxford, UK

1992

Career position - Guest Scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik in Garching, Germany

1993 - 2003

Career position - Chair of the National Committee for Spectroscopy of the Australian Academy of Science

1997 -

Career position - Professorial Fellow at the Swinburne University of Technology in Hawthorn, Victoria

1999 - 2003

Career position - Guest Scientist at the European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy in Florence, Italy (numerous visits)

2000

Career position - Guest Professor, University of Innsbruck, Austria

2001

Career position - Director of the Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy (CAOUS) at Swinburne University in Hawthorn, Victoria

2001

Award - Centenary Medal for service to Australian society and science in laser spectroscopy

2002 -

Career position - Member of Commission C15 (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics) for the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

2003 -

Career position - University Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology

2021

Award - W. H. (Beattie) Steel Medal, Australian and New Zealand Optical Society

2023

Award - Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for eminent service to science, particularly to experimental physics, as an academic researcher, to professional institutions, and as a role model for young scientists

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Published resources

Book Sections

• Hannaford, Peter, 'Walsh, Alan' in New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Koertge, Noretta, ed., vol. 7 (Detroit : Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008), pp. 228-233 . Details

Journal Articles

• Hannaford, Peter, 'Sir Alan Walsh. 19 December 1916 - 3 August 1998', Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 46 (2000), 533-64, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1999.0100. Details
• Hannaford, Peter, 'Alan Walsh 1916-1998', Historical Records of Australian Science, 13 (2) (2000), 179-206. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR0001320179. Details
• Hannaford, Peter, 'Alan Walsh and the atomic absorption story: celebrating 60 years', Australian Physics, 50 (6) (2013), 188-94. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7174510. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/79545413. Details
• 'Hannaford, Peter (1939-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1474051. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Professor Emeritus Peter Hannaford: Companion of the Order of Australia', in It's an Honour, Australian Awards and Honours Secretariat, Australian Government, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, 2023. https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2012681. Details