Professor Louis Davies interviewed by Professor David Craig
TitleProfessor Louis Davies interviewed by Professor David Craig
Reference240000038
Date1999
Scope and ContentProfessor Louis Davies received a BSc Hons from the University of Sydney in 1948 and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study plasma physics at Oxford University, for which he received a DPhil in 1951. Returning to Australia, he joined the Division of Radiophysics of CSIRO. In 1958 Professor Davies visited the Bell Laboratories on a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship. After returning to work at CSIRO for several years, he became chief physicist at Amalgamated Wireless Australasia (AWA) from 1960–85. He combined this position with a professorship of electrical engineering at the University of New South Wales from 1965-84.
LanguageEnglish
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Persons keyword David Craig, Louis Walter Davies
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