McNeill, John James (1916 - 1980)

Chronology

1937	Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1938	Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1938 - 1955	Physicist with the Munitions Supply Laboratory in Maribyrnong, Victoria
1940 - 1941	Educated at Imperial College London (Doctor of Philosophy?)
1945 - 1955	Head of the physics section at Maribyrnong
1955 - 1978	Principal Research Officer at the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Chemical Physics
1978 - 1980	Guest physicist at Monash University, Victoria

• 'McNeill, John James', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000318p.htm. [ Details ]
• 'McNeill, John James', in The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/omp/people/mcneill.htm. [ Details ]

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P000318. [ Details ]
• Bolton, H. C., 'Optical Instruments in Australia in the 1939-45 War: successes and lost opportunities', Australian Physicist, 1990, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/papers/bolton2.htm. [ Details ]
• Mellor, D.P., 'Optical Munitions', Chapter 12 in Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Series 4: Civil, volume 5 'The Role of Science and Industry', Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1958, 1958, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/papers/mellor.htm. [ Details ]