Richard Makinson
Richard Elliss Bodenham Makinson (5 May 1913 – 15 January 1979), also R.E.B. or Dick Makinson, was an Australian physicist known for his contributions to solid-state physics and amorphous semiconductors.
Makinson was born in Burwood a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney. He first enrolled at North Sydney Boys High School and later completed secondary education at Sydney Church of England Grammar (Shore) School. He graduated with first-class honours in physics from the University of Sydney in 1935. Later he traveled to England where he was awarded a PhD in physics from the University of Cambridge in 1939.[1]
Makinson contributed to the understanding of
During the
Makinson was a friend and colleague of John Clive Ward[9] and assisted in the creation of the physics program at Macquarie University where he obtained a position in 1968.[1] In the late 1970s he was a supporter of the Macquarie science reform movement.[10]
Makinson died of cancer, at Wahroonga, a northern suburb of Sydney, in 1979.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Makinson, Richard Elliss Bodenham (Dick) (1913 - 1979)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 23 January 2009.
- ^ R. E. B. Makinson, Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 34, 474 (1938).
- ^ C. Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics, 8th Ed. (Wiley, New York, 2004).
- ^ R. E. B. Makinson and P. A. Roberts, Aust. J. Phys. 13, 437 (1960).
- ^ R. E. B. Makinson and P. A. Roberts, Proc. Phys. Soc. (London) 79, 630 (1961).
- ^ A. I. Gubanov, Quantum Electron Theory of Amorphous Conductors (CB, New York, 1965).
- ^ Buckley-Moran, Jean. "Australian Scientists and the Cold War" (PDF). Retrieved 12 August 2014.
- ISBN 978-1920942588.
- ^ F. J. Duarte, The man behind an identity in quantum electrodynamics, Australian Physics 46 (6), 171-175 (2009). .
- ^ F. J. Duarte, Laser Physicist (Optics Journal, New York, 2012).
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