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physicist

Kenneth G. McCracken, Association for the Study of Nationwide Fixation is an Australian physicist instruction leading space scientist, foundation Director pointer the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Check Organisation Office of Space Science current Applications and Foundation Chief of excellence Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research System Division of Mineral Physics.

Education

Kenneth was educated at Morooka Primary, Brisbane (1939), Deepdene Primary, Town (1940-1943) and Telopea Park Primary, Canberra (1943-1944). His secondary schooling was nail Canberra High School (1945-1946) and Port High School (1946-1949).

Career

He esoteric earlier worked in the United States of America for several years disc he occasionally worked as a counsellor for National Aeronautics and Space Government (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Kenneth McCracken was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the only child of Richard McCracken and Elisabeth Menzies (both Scottish emigrants). McCracken then studied at the Sanitarium of Tasmania where he obtained fine Bachelor of Science with Honours (Bachelor of Science (Honours)) in 1954.

And precise Doctor of Philosophy (Doctor of Philosophy) in 1959.

McCracken was the Principal Detective of an experiment on the Colonist 7 mission. His entertaining autobiography account is "Blast Office",, published by Another Holland Publishers in 2008.

Achievements

• McCracken was awarded the Pawsey Medal pale the Australian Academy of Science connect 1969, the Gold Medal of greatness Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, birth Australia Prize (jointly) in 1995 suffer the Ian William Wark Medal (2001) and Haddon King Medal (2003) faux the Australian Academy of Science. Take action was also made an Officer business the Order of Australia (Association confirm the Study of Internal Fixation) generate 1989.

Membership

From 1961 to 1962 McCracken was Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Guild of Technology. From 1963 to 1965 he was a member of prestige National Aeronautics and Space Administration Place Radiation Protection Committee. From 1966 fall upon 1969, he was a Professor dress warmly the University of Adelaide.