| Authorised form of name | Philip; John Robert (1927 - 1999) |
| Dates | 1927 - 1999 |
| Place of birth | Ballarat, Victoria |
| Date of birth | 18/01/1927 |
| Date of death | 26/06/1999 |
| Activity | Education:
Scotch College, Melbourne; University of Melbourne
Career:
Research Assistant, University of Melbourne (1947); Research Staff (1951); Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology (1957-1958); Visiting Professor, University of Illinois (1958 and 1961); Nuffield Foundation Dominion Fellow, Cambridge University (1961-1962); Senior Principal Research Scientist (1961-1963); Chief Research Scientist and Assistant Chief (1963-1970); Senior Scholar and Research Rellow, Harvard University (1966-1967); Acting Chief, Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO (1970-1971); Associate Member, CSIRO Executive (1978); Visiting Professor, Cornell University (1979); first Director, Institute of Physical Sciences, CSIRO (1980-1983); Chief, Division of Environmental Mechanics, CSIRO (1971-1980 and 1983-1991); first CSIRO Fellow (1991); Visiting Fellow Commoner, Cambridge University (1994); CSIRO Fellow Emeritus, Laboratory for Environmental Mechanics
Memberships:
Soil Society of America (Fellow 1992); US National Academy of Engineering (Foreign Associate 1995) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 21/03/1974 |
| Age at election | 47 |
| Relationships | Son of Percival Norman and Ruth Philip; married (30 April 1949) Frances Julia; two sons, one daughter |
| Source | Sources:
WWA1998
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2005 Vol 51 pp 327-345, plate, by David Smiles |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/94483137 |
| Code | NA2324 |
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