Professor Mervyn Paterson interviewed by Professor Kurt Lambeck
TitleProfessor Mervyn Paterson interviewed by Professor Kurt Lambeck
Reference240000098
Date2006
Scope and ContentVideo interview and transcript of interview.
Professor Mervyn Paterson is a geophysicist who has led Australian research into rock mechanics and pioneered instrument development over the last fifty years. He was born in South Australia in 1925 into a family of wheat farmers. He attended Adelaide Technical High School, then The University of Adelaide from 1941 to 1943.
He began his career at the CSIR Division of Aeronautics working on the physics of metal fatigue, a foundation which shaped his entire career. He received a PhD from The University of Cambridge in the UK on x-ray diffraction effects of deformation metals, and pursued postdoctoral studies in Chicago in the USA. He returned to work at the newly-named CSIRO, but soon moved to the Australian National University, where he stayed for 31 years in the Research School of Earth Sciences. During this time he developed instruments to test rock deformation, which subsequently led to a 'second career' as owner and manager of Paterson Instruments P/L, a company specialising in building scientific instruments.
Professor Mervyn Paterson is a geophysicist who has led Australian research into rock mechanics and pioneered instrument development over the last fifty years. He was born in South Australia in 1925 into a family of wheat farmers. He attended Adelaide Technical High School, then The University of Adelaide from 1941 to 1943.
He began his career at the CSIR Division of Aeronautics working on the physics of metal fatigue, a foundation which shaped his entire career. He received a PhD from The University of Cambridge in the UK on x-ray diffraction effects of deformation metals, and pursued postdoctoral studies in Chicago in the USA. He returned to work at the newly-named CSIRO, but soon moved to the Australian National University, where he stayed for 31 years in the Research School of Earth Sciences. During this time he developed instruments to test rock deformation, which subsequently led to a 'second career' as owner and manager of Paterson Instruments P/L, a company specialising in building scientific instruments.
LanguageEnglish
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Persons keyword Mervyn Silas Paterson, K. Lambeck
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