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Cecil Ernest Eddy

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The British Society of Radiographers made Eddy an honorary member in 1945, and he became a founding fellow of the Australasian Institute of Radiography in 1950. He also became an honorary member of the College of Radiologists in 1950, and the Faculty of Radiologists, London, in 1952. He served on the
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Not finding Cambridge to his liking, Eddy returned to the University of Melbourne after just one year, and he and Laby produced a series of papers on the use of X-rays to detect impurities in minerals. It was for this work that Eddy was awarded his
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in 1931, and served as president of its Australian branch from 1948 to 1949. In 1935, he was appointed the director of the Commonwealth X-ray and Radium Laboratory, a position he held until his death.
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who pioneered X-Ray techniques for studying minerals and treating cancer. He was the director of the Commonwealth X-ray and Radium Laboratory from 1935 until his death in 1956.
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council of the National Association of Testing Authorities from when it was established in 1946, and from 1947 was the chairman of the
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degrees in 1923. That year he was granted leave to remain at the University of Melbourne and study physics under Professor
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tests in Western Australia in June 1956. On the way back to Melbourne he collapsed in Perth, and was taken to
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Britain, Australia and the Bomb: The Nuclear Tests and Their Aftermath
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the following year. Eddy became a fellow of the British
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Albury, New South Wales
Subiaco, Western Australia
University of Melbourne
David Syme Research Prize
Radiology
radiologist
physicist
Albury, New South Wales
Victoria
Victorian Education Department
Wangaratta High School
University of Melbourne
BSc
DipEd
T. H. Laby
MSc
X-ray spectroscopy
Geelong College
Rockefeller Fellowship
University of Cambridge
Cavendish Laboratory
Ernest Rutherford
registry office
Collins Street, Melbourne
DSc
David Syme Research Prize
Institute of Physics
National Health and Medical Research Council
United Nations
British nuclear tests at Maralinga

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