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Jim Falk (born ) is a physicist and academic researcher on science and technology studies. ==Background== Jim Falk was born in Oxford, England. His father was the philosopher Prof. Werner D. Falk (latterly Professor at the University of North Carolina〔http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/17/obituaries/werner-d-falk-85-philosophy-professor.html〕), and his mother an Australian, Dr. Barbara Cohen.〔http://genealogy.metastudies.net/PS01/PS01_001.HTM〕 Werner Falk had fled Germany prior to World War II and was studying and lecturing at the University of Oxford.〔http://metastudies.net/genealogy/ZDocs/WDFALK/FALKCH.html〕 The family moved to Australia when Jim Falk was young, when his father worked at the University of Melbourne. Falk attended Scotch College from 1952 to 1964, graduated with first class honours in physics at Monash University in 1968, and received his PhD from Monash in theoretical quantum physics in 1974. He and his partner, Sue Rowley, have two adult children and live in Melbourne. He was: *1976–1979 Lecturer (P/T), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Swinburne College of Advanced Education *1979 Research Officer, Senator Arthur Gietzelt (Shadow Minister for Consumer Affairs) *1980–1996 Lecturer to Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science/Science and Technology Studies, University of Wollongong *1996–2000 Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Western Sydney *2000–2004 Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Victoria University, Melbourne *2005–2010 Foundation Director, Australian Centre for Science, Innovation and Society, and Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne In December 2010 he retired, but remains an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, at The University of Melbourne. He was the founding Director of Climate Change research for the Association of Pacific Rim Universities World Institute (), and holds appointments also of Visiting Professor to the Institute of Advanced Studies of Sustainability at the United Nations University (in Yokohama, Japan), and Emeritus Professor at the University of Wollongong. 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「Jim Falk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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