Person
Clark, Gregory John (Greg)
AC FTSE
- Occupation
- Physicist
Summary
Greg Clark is a physicist whose early research was in low energy nuclear physics and late in communications technology. For 14 years he worked for IBM in the U.S.A. where he was granted 18 patents. He was instrumental on fostering collaboration between CSIRO and U.S. researchers particularly in relation to CSIRO's wifi invention. In 2006 he founded KaComm Communications which focuses on high speed broadband services for remote and rural communities.
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Chronology
- 1969 - 1972
- Career position - Harwell Fellow, United Kingdom Atomic Energy, Harwell, United Kingdom
- 1973 - 1980
- Career position - Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Mineral Physics
- 1976 - 1977
- Career position - Visiting Principal Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States Atomic Energy Agency
- 1979
- Award - Pawsey Medal, Australian Academy of Science
- 1980 - 1993
- Career position - Director of Science and Technology (Australia) and Research staff member, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Division, New York, U.S.A.
- 1988 -
- Award - Fellow, American Physical Society
- 1989 -
- Award - Fellow, New York Explorers Club
- 1991
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)
- 1991 - 1992
- Career position - Member, Inaugural Co-operative Research Centre Selection Committee
- 1992 - 1997
- Career position - Member, Prime Minister's Science and Engineering Council
- 1993 - 1999
- Career position - President, News Corporation Technology Group
- 1998 - 2001
- Career position - President and Chief Operating Officer, Loral Space and Communications
- 2001
- Award - Centenary Medal for service to Australian society in technology and communications
- 2004 - 2011
- Career position - Principal, Clark Capital Partners
- 2005
- Award - Einstein Medal, Government of Israel
- 2006 -
- Career position - Visiting Fellow, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Australian National University
- 2006 -
- Career position - Chairman, KaComm Communications Pty Ltd
- 2006
- Career position - Member, National ICT Australia Review Board
- 2010 -
- Career position - Member of Council, Royal Institution of Australia
- 2011 -
- Career position - Chairman, Advisory Board, A.R.C. Centre for of Excellence for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS)
- 2012
- Award - Hall of Fame, Pearcey Foundation
- 2013 -
- Career position - Councillor, University of Sydney Physics Foundation
- 2013
- Career position - Chairman, Commercial and Philanthropic Development Board, School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University
- 2014 -
- Career position - Board Member, Questacon - the National Science and Technology Centre
- 2018
- Award - Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for eminent service to science as a physicist, researcher and academic in the area of technological development and communications, to business as an innovator and enabler of emerging technologies, and to the promotion of philanthropy
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See also
- Companion (AC) in the General Division of the Order of Australia [Australia Day 2018], Governor General's Office, Canberra, 2018, https://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-02/ad18_media_notes_-_ac.pdf. Details
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Created: 12 March 2019, Last modified: 11 May 2022