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Authorised form of nameHead; Alan Kenneth (1925 - 2010)
Dates1925 - 2010
NationalityAustralian
Place of birthMelbourne, Australia
Date of birth10/08/1925
Date of death09/01/2010
ActivityEducation:
Ballarat; Scotch College, Melbourne; Melbourne University; Bristol University. BA, PhD, DSc
Career:
Division of Aeronautics, CSIRO (1947-1950); Resident Scientist, Division of Tribophysics, CSIRO (1957-1981); Brown University (1961-1962); Visiting Professor, Florida University (1972); Visiting Professor, Oxford University (1980, 1986, 1990); Permanent Founder-Member, International Congress on Fracture; Resident Scientist, Division of Materials Science, CSIRO (1987-1990); Honorary Research Fellow, Division of Materials Science, CSIRO (1990)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election17/03/1988
Age at election62
RelationshipsSon of E H J Head; married (08 March 1951) Gwenneth Nancy
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society, Vol 57, 2011, pp 147-166, plate, by Peter Humble

Sources:
WWA1998
CodeNA4094
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/002004Head, Alan Kennethnd
EC/1988/14Head, Alan Kenneth: certificate of election to the Royal Society1982
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