MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION



MS 020 – PAWSEY, Joseph Lade (1908-1962)
Radiophysicist and Radio Astronomer

Pawsey was a research physicist, CSIR/O Division of Radiophysics 1940-62, and assistant chief from 1952. In 1962 he was appointed Director of the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory but died before taking office.

Ms drafts of editorial to Radio Astronomy Issue of Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Australia, February 1963

Three letters to Prof W N Christiansen, March-April 1961, discussing aspects of radio astronomy

Horizons - an ABC interview with Dr Pawsey, 1962 (16 mm film print)

Typescript copies of chapters for Radio astronomy, by Pawsey and R N Bracewell 1955 and Cosmic radio waves and their interpretation, by Pawsey and E R Hill 1961

Typescript obituary notice 1964

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