Garth Alan Carnaby (born 1950) is a

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fibre physicist and science and public administrator.

Biography

Carnaby completed a

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at the Department of Textile Industries at

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in 1976. The title of his doctoral thesis was ''The structure and mechanical properties of wool carpet yarns''. He then returned to New Zealand, where he rose to become managing director of the Wool Research Organisation of New Zealand. In 1989 Carnaby received a

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by thesis (''Publications and papers on wool and the wool industry'') from the

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, followed by an honorary

from Lincoln University in 2010. Carnaby served as president of the

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from 2009 to 2012, preceded by

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and followed by David Skegg. Carnaby has also served as chair of the board of the

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and chair for

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Council (2005–2009). He has served as 'Entrepreneur in Residence' and chair of the Research and Commercialisation Committee at Lincoln University.

Honours

In 1992, Carnaby was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. In the

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, Carnaby was appointed a

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, for services to the wool industry. He was promoted to

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of the same order in the

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, for services to science and governance.

Selected works

* Carnaby, Garth A., and Ning Pan. "Theory of the compression hysteresis of fibrous assemblies." Textile Research Journal 59.5 (1989): 275–284. * Postle, Ron, Garth Alan Carnaby, and Stuart De Jong. "The mechanics of wool structures." (1988). * Lee, Dae Hoon, and Garth A. Carnaby. "Compressional Energy of the Random Fiber Assembly: Part I: Theory." Textile research journal 62.4 (1992): 185–191. * Pan, N., and Garth A. Carnaby. "Theory of the shear deformation of fibrous assemblies." Textile Research Journal 59.5 (1989): 285–292.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carnaby, Garth Living people Presidents of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1950 births University of New South Wales alumni Lincoln University (New Zealand) alumni Alumni of the University of Leeds Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand 20th-century New Zealand physicists 21st-century New Zealand physicists