Caro, David E.

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Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsVice-chancellorsAcademics - PhysicsHistoryHaving 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.

Accession

[1987.0040] Papers of David Edmund Caro

Dates

Date1922-2011

Names

Given NameDavidMiddle NameEdmundFamily NameCaro

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PositionsVice-Chancellor, University of Melbourne

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Caro, David E.