Robert Delbourgo BSc, ARCS, PhD, DSc, FAIP, FAA, (born 11 November 1940) is an Australian

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, winner of the

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(BSc (Hons) 1960, PhD 1963) and

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(DSc 1976). His PhD was obtained under the supervision of

Abdus Salam Mohammad Abdus Salam Salam adopted the forename "Mohammad" in 1974 in response to the anti-Ahmadiyya decrees in Pakistan, similarly he grew his beard. (; ; 29 January 192621 November 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. He shared the 1 ...

(who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979). Salam and Delbourgo have co-authored 30 research publications. Delbourgo became a Research Associate,

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1963 to 1964; Research Scientist,

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1964 to 1965; Lecturer in Physics, Imperial College 1966 to 1972, Reader 1972 to 1976; Professor of Physics, University of Tasmania 1976 to about 2001, Emeritus Professor from about 2001. Fellow, Australian Institute of Physics 1977; Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 1988; Walter Boas Medal,

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1988; Lyle Medal,

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1989. Chairman, Tasmanian Branch, Australian Institute of Physics 1992 to 1993; Chairman, National Committee for Physics 1994 to 1997.

Selected publications

''Physics off the Beaten Track: A Selection of Papers by Robert Delbourgo''

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, 2019.
''An Eventful Journey to Unification of All the Fundamental Forces''
by Robert Delbourgo,

, 2020. A small book for science enthusiasts.
"The relativity of space-time-property"
by Robert Delbourgo, invited talk given at the Conference in Honour of the 90th Birthday of Freeman Dyson, Institute of Advanced Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 26–29 August 2013

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Delbourgo, Robert 1940 births Living people Australian physicists Theoretical physicists Quantum physicists Alumni of Imperial College London Alumni of the University of London Academic staff of the University of Tasmania University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Fellows of the Australian Institute of Physics Australian expatriates in the United Kingdom