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Creator:
Caro, David Edmund
Date of birth: 1922
Date of death: 2011
Biography: Having graduated B.Sc. and M.Sc. at the University of Melbourne , his course interrupted by service in the R.A.A.F., Caro studied in Birmingham with Oliphant and Moon for his Ph.D. In 1952 he became a Lecturer in Physics at Melbourne, rising to occupying the Chair of Experimental Physics in 1961. In 1972 he was the University's first full-time Deputy Vice-Chancellor, leaving to become Vice-Chancellor at the University of Tasmania in 1978. He succeeded Sir David Derham as Vice-Chancellor at Melbourne in July 1982.
Activities/Occupation: Vice-chancellors, Academics - Physics
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