Geoffrey Victor Herbert Wilson (23 September 1938 – 9 January 2020) was an Australian
nuclear physicist who made contributions to
nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, most commonly known as NMR spectroscopy or magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), is a Spectroscopy, spectroscopic technique based on re-orientation of Atomic nucleus, atomic nuclei with non-zero nuclear sp ...
and
low temperature physics
Low or LOW or lows, may refer to:
People
* Low (surname), listing people surnamed Low
Places
* Low, Quebec, Canada
* Low, Utah, United States
* Lo Wu station (MTR code LOW), Hong Kong; a rail station
* Salzburg Airport (ICAO airport code: LOW ...
. His research team achieved the lowest temperature ever recorded in Australia. He was born in
Mentone, Victoria.
He was National President of the
Australian Institute of Physics and held appointments as Chair of the Victorian and Queensland Vice-Chancellors’ Committees, Vice President and Acting President of the
Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee. He has been Chair of the Boards of
Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre,
Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre and the Graduate Careers Council of Australia.
Wilson had a distinguished career as a physicist with more than 100 published papers in international scientific journals. He was a member of the
Australian College of Educators and a director of the
Australian Institute of Management.
After retiring from
Deakin University he carried out extensive consulting including the development of drafts of the new National Protocols on Higher Education Processes and was a member of the Cooperative Research Centres Committee. He chaired the Board of AMCSearch. Deakin University awards the Geoff Wilson Medal ''"to celebrate the career of Professor Geoffrey Victor Herbert Wilson AM"''.
Wilson died on 9 January 2020 in Geelong, Victoria at the age of 81.
Appointments
* Vice-Chancellor and President of
Deakin University, 1996–2002.
* Vice-President,
Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee, 1996–1997, a member of the Board of Directors, 1994–1999 and Chair of the Standing Committee on Research.
* Vice-Chancellor of
Central Queensland University, 1991–1996.
* Member of the
Australian Research Council, 1988–1991, Deputy Chair of the Council, 1989–1990, and held the inaugural chair of the Council's Research Grants Committee.
* Inaugural Rector of the University College of the UNSW at the
Australian Defence Force Academy
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.
He held appointments at
Monash and
Oxford
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The city is home to the University of Oxford, the List of oldest universities in continuou ...
universities and the
Free University of Berlin.
Awards
Wilson made a
Member of the Order of Australia
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(AM) in the
1997 Queen's Birthday Honours. He was awarded the
Centenary Medal in 2001 for "For service to tertiary education and academic achievement in the field of physics".
References
1938 births
2020 deaths
20th-century Australian physicists
Australian nuclear physicists
Academic staff of Deakin University
Academic staff of Central Queensland University
Academic staff of the University of New South Wales
University of Melbourne alumni
Monash University alumni
Members of the Order of Australia
People from Mentone, Victoria
Scientists from Melbourne
Vice-chancellors of Deakin University
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