Person
Mitroy, James Dumitru (Jim) (1957 - 2014)
- Born
- 16 February 1957
Toorak, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 28 August 2014
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia - Occupation
- Physicist
Summary
Jim Mitroy was considered an outstanding theoretical atomic, molecular and optical physicist. In the 1990s he directed his attention to antimatter-matter interactions, where he made his most note-worthy contributions. Outcomes of this research included a series of publications on computational solutions to the collisions of positron atoms and his proof of the existence of positron atoms. More recently he worked on photon-atom and atom-atom interactions. He was leader of collaborations that resulted in review papers on atomic polarisabilities and on explicitly-correlated Gaussian basis functions. As Lecturer at the University College of the Northern Territory, Mitroy was instrumental in establishing the undergraduate physics program. He represented the University on the Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Graduate Studies and the Australian Institute for Nuclear Science and Engineering. At the time of his death he was Professor of Physics.
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Chronology
- ? - 2014
- Career position - Professor in Physics, Charles Darwin University
- 1983
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Melbourne
- 1983 - 1986
- Career position - Post-Doctoral Fellow, Flinders University, South Australia
- 1986 - 1988
- Career position - Postdoctoral Fellow, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado Boulder, U.S.A.
- 1988 - 1989
- Career position - Research Fellow, Australian National University
- 1989 -
- Career position - Lecturer, University of the Northern Territory
- 2006 - 2013
- Career position - Member, Australian National Centre of Excellence for Antimatter-Matter Studies
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Published resources
Journal Articles
- Bromley, Michael W. J.; Buckman, Stephen J.; and Clark, Charles W., 'James (Jim) Dumitru Mitroy 16 February 1957 - 28 August 2014', Australian Physics, 52 (2) (2015), 70, https://aip.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Australian%20Physics/Aust%20Phys%2052-2.pdf. Details
Resources
- 'Mitroy, James Dumitru (19570216-20140828)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1772634. Details
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