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Piddington, John Hobart (1910 - 1997)

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Born: 6 November 1910  Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.  Died: 16 July 1997.
John Hobart (Jack) Piddington was Chief Research Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Physics, National Measurement Laboratory, Sydney 1966-75 and had been a research physicist with the CSIR/O Division of Radiophysics 1939-66.

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Born 6 November 1910. Died 16 July 1997. Educated Universities of Sydney (BSc 1931, BE 1933, MSc 1935) and Cambridge (PhD 1938). Walter and Eliza Hall Fellow 1936-38, Sydney University Fellow 1938-39, CSIR (subsequently CSIRO) Division of Radiophysics 1939-66, Radar consultant, British Army Malaya, Hong Kong, Burma 1941, Air Ministry UK 1944, Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Physics, National Measurement Laboratory 1966-75, Senior Research Fellow 1975-84. Syme Medallist, University of Melbourne 1944, Sidey Medallist, Royal Society of New Zealand 1959, Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 1963.
 
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