Ray Whitmore Am, 1920-2008

摘要

Professor Raymond Leslie Whitmore was a man of many and varied talents who died peacefully on 20 December 2008. His professional life spanned a wide range of disciplines and he made outstanding contributions in fields as varied as radar development, medical research into the properties of blood and the circulation system, mining and metallurgical engineering and as a noted Queensland historian. His contribution to professional and community organisations was outstanding and included important roles with Engineers Australia, the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Brisbane and Ipswich City Council Heritage Committees, the Queensland Museum and the Royal Historical Society of Queensland. On finishing school he was appointed a laboratory assistant in the Mining Department at the University of Birmingham. Mining and metallurgical engineering was to underpin the rest of his professional life. He completed an external physics degree at the University of London and then undertook a course of practicals and lectures organised by the Physics Department at the University of Birmingham which started his involvement in the development of radar - then a new and highly secret technology.