Kathleen Makinson interviewed by Ragbir Bhathal for the Australian women scientists oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1409461
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Makinson, K. Rachel (Kathleen Rachel), 1917-2014, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1997 Mar. 1
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 73 min.)
- Series:
- Australian women scientists oral history project.
- Summary:
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Kathleen Rachel Makinson, wool researcher and Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Textile Physics, speaks of her childhood in London and her inclinations towards science at school, winning a scholarship to Newnham College at University of Cambridge, her preference for physics, her interest in crystallography, how she might have continued at Cambridge in nuclear physics, partcipating in student politics in both communism and the Peace Movement, demonstrating in London against the invasion of Austria, becoming engaged to an Australian doing his doctorate at Cambridge; emigrating to Australia in 1939; work as a research assistant at the University of Sydney and her involvement in radar research during WWII; the difficulties for women applying for research positions during the War, how she ended up in wool research in CSIRO; how it was not possible to undertake doctorates in Australia during that period; returning to Cambridge in 1970; why CSIRO set up a Wool Physics Division; how her work contributed to efficiencies in wool shrinkage.
- Biography/History:
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Dr Rachel Makinson, Physicist; international authority on felting, friction and shrinking-proofing of wool; was first woman to be appointed Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on Mar. 1, 1997.
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-220919698
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 31 leaves) available.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Bhathal, Ragbir (Ragbir Singh), interviewer
- Also Titled:
- Kathleen Rachel Makinson interviewed by Ragbir Bhathal for the Australian women scientists oral history project
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Australian women scientists oral history project.
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- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1997
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