John Henry Carver
John Henry Carver
John Henry Carver AMwas an Australian physicist who worked in nuclear and atmospheric physics...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionPhysicist
CountryAustralia
two competition three
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 can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.
began build chambers good knowing needed pumping putting system together vacuum
Knowing I needed to build some counters, I began by putting together a good vacuum system and a pumping system to build ion chambers of some sort.
basic interested originally photo work
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 new science.
canberra depended happen might nuclear particle physics successes vision
In Canberra my vision of what could happen in nuclear physics really depended on the big successes we might have had in the particle physics area.
father house carpentry
My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.