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Authorised form of namePhilip; John Robert (1927 - 1999)
Dates1927 - 1999
Place of birthBallarat, Victoria
Date of birth18/01/1927
Date of death26/06/1999
ActivityEducation:
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 categoryFellow
Date of election21/03/1974
Age at election47
RelationshipsSon of Percival Norman and Ruth Philip; married (30 April 1949) Frances Julia; two sons, one daughter
SourceSources:
WWA1998
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2005 Vol 51 pp 327-345, plate, by David Smiles
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/94483137
CodeNA2324
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1974/22Philip, John Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/GA/GRS/6355Philip, John Robertnd
IM/003571Philip, John RobertApril 1974
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