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McCarthy, Ian Ellery (1930 - 2005)

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Mathematical physicist
Born: 19 June 1930  Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.  Died: 23 April 2005  Adelaide.
Ian Ellery McCarthy was Professor of Physics at Flinders University in South Australia for nearly thirty years (1968-1996). Prior to this he held Professorships at two universities in the United States of America. Throughout his career McCarthy worked in several distinct areas of theoretical physics. He was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 1982 and was also a Fellow of the American Physical Society(FAPS) and the Australian Institute of Physics (FAIP). Ian McCarthy presented invited papers at a number of international conferences and was (co)-author of numerous peer-reviewed publications.
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Chronology
1952Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Adelaide
1956Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Adelaide
1956 - 1960Postdoctoral research at the universities of Cambridge (UK), Minnesota (USA) and California (USA)
1960 - 1963Lecturer then Senior Lecture in Mathematical Physics at the University of Adelaide
1963 - 1964Associate Professor of Physics at the University of California in Davis, USA
1965 - 1967Professor of Physics at the University of Oregon, USA
1968 - 1996Professor of Physics at Flinders University in South Australia
1982 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

 
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