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Grant, Colin Kerr (1912 - )

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Geophysicist

Born: 28 August 1912 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Colin Kerr Grant worked as an engineer and geophysicist in the United Kingdom and the United States of America as well as in Australia. He was reader in geophysics at the University of Melbourne from 1958 to 1977.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1933 Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Adelaide
1935 - 1938 Research Fellow in Geodesy at the University of Cambridge
1937 Bachelor of Arts (BA) completed at the University of Cambridge, UK
1938 - 1940 Assistant at the Adelaide Observatory
1940 - 1946 War service with the Royal Australian Air Force
1946 - 1947 Engineer at General Electric Co.in Schenectady, USA
1948 - 1955 Geophysicist at the South Australian Department of Mines
1956 - 1958 Engineer? at Electro-Tech International
1958 - 1977 Reader in Geophysics at the University of Melbourne
1961 Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1978 - 1979 Consulting Geophysicist at Pexcon International in Houston, USA
1979 - 1982 Geophysicist at the Law Engineering Testing Co. in Atlanta, USA
1982 - 1983 Consulting Geophysicistin the USA (private practive)
1984 - Consulting Geophysicist in Melbourne (private practive)

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'Grant, Colin Kerr', 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/P001669p.htm. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 7 June 2005

Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project, 1999-2006 by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
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