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 C….

My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him..

Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys..

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 ca….

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics..

My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. ….