John Henry Carver AM (5 September 1926 – 25 December 2004) was an Australian physicist who worked in nuclear and atmospheric physics. Read full biography of John Henry Carver →
I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.
My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.
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... →
My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject.... →
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... →
The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the... →
Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.
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... →
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... →
John Henry Carver AM (5 September 1926 – 25 December 2004) was an Australian physicist who worked in nuclear and atmospheric physics.