Snapshot: Peter Hannaford - Laser spectroscopist

摘要

Peter Hannaford has had a remarkable career from country boy in the 1940s to head of Swinburne's Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy. It's all the more remarkable because he was educated at some of Australia's lesser-known rural schools rather than one of Melbourne's more exclusive and influential private schools. During his early years "We stayed typically one to three years in any one place, which meant that we would make friends and then move on. On the other hand, I enjoyed this as a challenge, just moving from school to school."