David Blair
Retired Physicist
Honorary Associate, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
Biography
David Graham Blair was born in Sydney in 1939.
He was educated at Fort Street Boys High School and the
University of Sydney. He gained a PhD from that university
for work in theoretical solid state physics.
The period 1965-74 was spent in Canada as a postdoctoral
fellow at two universities. For 1974-90, David was on the
academic staff of the University of Technology, Sydney.
He was a senior research scientist at the
Defence Science and Technology Organisation, 1990-2002,
where he was a leading member of a team that developed
a high-resolution sonar.
Following his 2002 retirement, David did pro bono
research on sonar and related acoustics, on a part-time basis,
until his "second retirement" in 2011.
For most of this time he was an honorary associate in the
University of Sydney Institute of Marine Science.
Living in Sydney, he is married with two sons and three
grandchildren.
More about David:
davidgrablair.wordpress.com
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