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McDonald, Gavin Grant (1920 - )

Metallurgist

Born: 25 June 1920 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Gavin Grant McDonald worked at Australia's top munitions and defence laboratories. In 1977 he was Director of International Programmes at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (formerly the Commonwealth Department of Supply).

Career Highlights

Chronology
1940 Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1940 - 1960 Metallurgist at the Munitions Supply Laboratories in Maribyrnong, Victoria
1941 Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1960 - 1963 Superintendent at the South Australian Branch Defence Standards Laboratories
1963 - 1966 Head of the Phys. Metallurgy Group at the South Australian Branch Defence Standards Laboratories
1966 - 1977 Principal Research Scientist at the Commonwealth Department of Supply
1977 - 1980 Director of International Programmes

Online Sources

'McDonald, Gavin Grant', 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/P001733p.htm. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 26 July 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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