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COURTNEY-PRATT, Jeofry Stuart

Born Hobart 31 January 1920. Education University of Tasmania (B.E. 1942) and Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge (Ph.D. 1949, Sc.D. 1958). Lubricants and Bearings Section, C.S.I.R., 1940-46. 1851 Exhibition senior scholar 1947-49. Assistant director of research, Department of Physical Chemistry, Cambridge, 1953-57. Head of the department of mechanics & optics, Bell Telephone Laboratories, U.S.A., 1958-69; applied physics department 1969-82; head, station technology department, A.T.& T. Information Systems Laboratories, 1983-.
  1. (With G.K. Tudor) Lubrication between the piston rings and cylinder wall of a running engine. Australia. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Bulletin., 179 (1944), 24pp.
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