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HEAD, A K, FAA (1925-2010)

Alan Head was a research scientist in the Division of Tribophysics, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) 1957-1981; Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Chemical Physics 1981-1987 and Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Materials Science 1987-1990.

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      1     Biographical material – contributions to AKH’s biography and letters of appreciation

      2     Biographical material and publications list collected as part of preparing AKH’s biography

      3     Obituaries for The Age and the Australian Academy of Science. 2010

      4     Biographical memoirs for Australian Academy of Science and Royal Society. 2010

      5     Appreciation of AKH in support of his nomination for AO, written by Peter Humble. October 1990

      6     Invitations to Brown University 1964, Batelle Memorial Institute 1969, University of Florida 1971 and Swinburne University of Technology 2001

      7     Correspondence regarding BHP Pursuit of Excellence Award 1984

      8     CSIRAC. 1996-2003

      9     List of AKH files containing correspondence on radiation cooling. 1959-1978

    10     Radio telescope working calculations, correspondence (mainly with Joseph Pawsey) and publications. 1955-1992

    11     PCTWO Electron Microscope Image System. Documentation. CPSOFT-1. 1985

    12     PhD dissertation, University of Bristol, ca 1953. I. The interaction of dislocations and boundaries. II. The growth of fatigue cracks.

    13     Papers on metal physics and geometrical optics submitted to the University of Melbourne for DSc degree. 1962

 

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      1     Vortices, dislocations and line singularities in partial differential equations; a discussion organised and edited by AKH et al. published the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions; mathematical, physical and engineering sciences, vol. 355, no. 1731, 15 October 1997

      2     Report of the AAT Dome Seeing Review Committee to the Anglo-Australian Telescope Board, February 1982 (AKH Chair)

      3     Two publications on a lens for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope, ca. 2004 (not by AKH)

      4     LIE and BIGLIE; programs to find Lie symmetries of differential equations, by AKH. Page printed from web 2002.

      5     Working notes on distribution of shapes for transitive groups. Undated.

      6     “The growth of fatigue cracks”, by AKH. Published in Philosophical Magazine, vol. 44, 1953, pp. 925-938. Republished in Top ten papers 1907-2007 by Defence Science & Technology Organisation, 2008.

      7     “Theorem prover for the propositional calculus”, by AKH. DECUS Program Library 8-740, 29 November 1974

8-12     Other publications by AKH (5 folders)

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