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Professor Bruce Harold John McKellar (born 1941) is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the (Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale (CoEPP) ) in the School of Physics at The University of Melbourne. The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) elected Professor Bruce McKellar as its President-Designate in 2012. In November 2014 McKellar became President of IUPAP, the first-ever Australian to take on this role. McKellar is a theoretical particle physicist who is known for his work on particle physics and many other fields such as nuclear physics and cosmology. His other work has had applications in photography, atmospherics physics and geophysics, as well as implications for pure mathematics. On Australia Day (26 January 2014), McKellar was appointed a Companion (AC) in the General Division of the Order of Australia, by Governor-General Quentin Bryce, for his service to science, particularly theoretical physics, as an academic, educator and researcher, through seminal contributions to scientific development organisations, and as an author and mentor. The AC was the Australia’s highest civilian honour. ==Early years and education== McKellar grew up in Bedgerabong in NSW, attending (Bedgerabong Primary School ), which was then a one teacher school. His father was the teacher. He then attended (Forbes High School ) before moving to Sydney at 16 to study a Bachelor of Science at the University of Sydney, which he completed with First Class Honours and the University Medal for Physics. He received his PhD in the University of Sydney in 1965, and a Doctor of Science from the University of Melbourne in 1976. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bruce Harold John McKellar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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