Roberts, Alan

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Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsPolitical activistsAcademics - PhysicsHistoryA lecturer in physics at Monash University, Clayton, Dr. Alan Roberts had also a long and active involvement in left wing movements from the Communist Party post-WW2, Trotskyism in the 1950s, and the peace movement generally. He was a member of the ALP and participated in their deliberations about nuclear energy. He avoided committee work in his later years, and concentrated on lecture tours, publishing and broadcasting on political and scientific issues such as nuclear energy, Omega bases, and the environment. In his retirement he is working on environmental issues. He is also a writer of fiction, particularly enjoying detective stories.

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[1997.0093] Papers of Alan Roberts

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John Alexander Gunn, University of Melbourne.

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Roberts, Alan