John Gordon Rushbrooke

John Gordon Rushbrooke (1936-2003) was an Australian particle physicist.

The son of Neil and Vera Rushbrooke, with four sisters, John was born in Geelong in 1936 and brought up there.[1] He attended Geelong Grammar School, where he was at the top of every class.[1]

He went on to Trinity College, graduating BSc in 1956. Rushbrooke went on to a master's degree doing experiments at Australia's first cyclotron, where Rushbrooke began his work as a high-energy physicist, probing the atom.[1] His thesis from the University of Melbourne was on Coulomb excitations of the atom.[2]

In 1959 Rushbrooke wan a scholarship that took him to King's College, Cambridge.[1] Following work in the Cavendish Laboratory and graduation as a PhD, Rushbrooke spent a year at CERN, before returning to Cambridge and the Cavendish with a fellowship at Downing College, where he was director of studies in physics.[1]

For five years from 1977 he was on leave from his duties at Cambridge, based again at CERN, where he functioned as the spokesperson for the UA5 collaboration.[1] The UA5 experiment searched for Centauro events at the Proton-Antiproton Collider, a modification of the Super Proton Synchrotron.[3]

In 1983 Rushbrooke was promoted to a readership in physics at Cambridge, and in 1991 the university conferred on him a second doctorate.[1] During the 90s Rushbrooke worked on commercializing technology from scanning techniques developed at CERN,[4] and moved to California in 2000 after securing a contract with a major US company.[1] Rushbrooke died in California in 2003, at the age of 67.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Michael Collins Persse (27 October 2003). "Explorer of the micro-universe". smh.com.au. The Sunday Morning Herald. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  2. ↑ "University of Melbourne /Baillieu S". cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
  3. ↑ Goldchmidt-Clermont, Y. (15 February 1979). "Decisions of the 32nd Meeting of the Research Board" (PDF). CERN Document Server. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "John Gordon Rushbrooke Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 2017-07-18.


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