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John Henry Carver [1926-2004] Australian

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Physicist

John Henry Carver AM was an Australian physicist who worked in nuclear and atmospheric physics.

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I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.	Car	101
I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.		102
My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.		103
My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.		104
The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building of counters or a system like that.		105
In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.		106
I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science.		107
Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a lower energy group - it was not fundamentally opening up new insights on the structure of matter. That required you to be in a higher league.		108
Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.		109

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