Doctor Charles Melbourne Focken

Physicist
Born
23 October 1901, Kan Lung, Hong Kong
Died
15 August 1978, Hawthorn East, Victoria
Sex
Male
Father
Charles Fredrick Focken (marine engineer)
Mother
Elizabeth Edwards Gray
Married Elizabeth Sills

Degrees

1923Bachelor of ScienceThe University of Melbourne
1931Bachelor of Civil EngineeringThe University of Melbourne

Career

  • DPhil Oxon 1926, MS Colorado School of Mines 1935.
  • Vic Rhodes Scholar for 1923.
  • Physicist and museum dir.

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