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Professor Andrew Cole interviewed by Professor Donald Watts
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Professor Andrew Cole interviewed by Professor Donald Watts
[nb-NO]Reference[nb-NO]240000032
[nb-NO]Date[nb-NO]2010
[nb-NO]Creator[nb-NO]Australian Academy of Science
[nb-NO]Scope and Content[nb-NO]Andrew Reginald Howard (Andy) Cole was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1924. He qualified for a place at Perth's only selective school, Perth Modern School, in 1937. After finishing secondary school in 1941, Cole was awarded a government university exhibition to study at the University of Western Australia (1942-46). Cole graduated with a BSc (Hons) in chemistry. In 1946, Cole received a Hackett studentship which enabled him to study in England. After spending a year doing further research in Western Australia, Cole took up this studentship at St John's College, Oxford (1947-49).
In 1950 Cole moved again, to take up a position as postdoctoral research fellow at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa. Cole was awarded a Nuffield research fellowship and returned to the University of Western Australia in 1952. He was subsequently appointed senior lecturer in chemistry (1955-57), reader in chemistry (1958-68), personal professorship in physical chemistry (1969) and head of department (1971-89) .
In 1950 Cole moved again, to take up a position as postdoctoral research fellow at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa. Cole was awarded a Nuffield research fellowship and returned to the University of Western Australia in 1952. He was subsequently appointed senior lecturer in chemistry (1955-57), reader in chemistry (1958-68), personal professorship in physical chemistry (1969) and head of department (1971-89) .
[nb-NO]Language[nb-NO]English
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[nb-NO]Persons keyword[nb-NO] Andrew Reginald Howard Cole, Donald Watts
[nb-NO]Subject[nb-NO]Chemistry, Chemistry -- Anecdotes, , Science--History, Science--Social aspects
[nb-NO]Conditions governing access[nb-NO]The Australian Academy of Science supports and encourages the use of its archive & library by making a material available to the public under Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 see creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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