Person
Bottomley, Gerald Andrew (Gerry) (1924 - 2018)
- Born
- 9 October 1924
Keighley, Yorkshire, United Kingdom - Died
- 6 June 2018
Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Analytical chemist
Summary
Gerry Bottomley was a chemist whose research was on the properties of gasses and the precision measurement of those properties. He undertook major studies on the levels of nitrogen oxide in the suburbs of Perth, and into emissions from industrial smoke stacks and lead pollution in soils around industrial sites and major roads. Between 1979 and 1982 Bird was Head of the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Western Australia.
Details
Chronology
- 1948? -
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Leeds
- c. 1948 - c. 1951
- Career position - Assistant Lecturer, University of Liverpool
- c. 1951 - c. 1956
- Career position - Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- 1959 - 1989
- Career position - Member, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
- 1979 - 1982
- Career position - Head of Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, University of Western Australia
- 1989 - 2018
- Award - Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
Related entries
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Chandler, G. S.; and Spurling, T. H., 'Gerry Bottomley: a passion for high-precision measurements of liquids and gasses', Chemistry in Australia, 2018 (September/October) (2018), 31. Details
Helen Cohn
Created: 13 August 2019, Last modified: 14 August 2019