Author:
Goss W. M.,Hooker Claire,Ekers Ronald D.
Abstract
AbstractJ.L. Pawsey’s long visit to North America and the UK was a masterpiece of international scientific networking. Pawsey was careful to ensure that he visited all the leading researchers and research groups across the breadth of specialisations relevant for his budding research groups: radio and communications engineers, microwave physicists, military and naval research laboratories. The result was an extremely tight and relentless schedule. N.A. Whiffen of the Australian Embassy in Washington (Australian Scientific Research Liaison Office, ASRLO) did much of the organisation for the visit in the US, including resolving the issue of military clearance at a number of US institutes, not at all an easy task. Here, we provide an overview of the places and people visited, to give a sense of both the importance of the network Pawsey cultivated, and the effort that doing so required.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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