VISIT OF NOTED SCIENTIST

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23941, 7 May 1943, Page 4

VISIT OF NOTED SCIENTIST

SIR JOHN MADSEN IN CITY SURVEY OF SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING One of Australia’s most eminent scientists. Professor Sir John Madsen, arrived in Christchurch yesterday to begin a fortnight’s survey of the School of Engineering at Canterbury University College. The investigation will, in the first instance, be of a general nature, but it is likely that developments along modern lines, particularly in the electrical field, which is Sir John Madsen’s special department, will be discussed, and these may be the subject of later recommendations. , Sir John Madsen has been professor of electrical engineering at the Sydney University since 1920. As a leading radio-physicist he has been associated with much of_ Australia's wartime progress in allied technical developments. He is Director of Australian Scientific Research Liaison and is chairman of the following boards and committees of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of Australia:—The Standards Laboratory Advisory Committee, the Radio Research Board, and the Radio Physics Board. , , , . Sir John Madsen was educated at the Sydney High School and Sydney University, to which he returned after an early appointment as assistant lecturer in physics at Adelaide. From 1905 to 1918 Sir John Madsen was officer in charge and chief instructor of the Engineer Officers’ Training School of Australia. His knighthood was included in the King’s Birthday Honours of 1941, Last evening Sir John Madsen was entertained at the home of Mr A. E. Flower, chairman of the Canterbury University College Council, where he met members of the council, the professorial board, and others. This morning he will be engaged in the first discussions with the engineering committee, and this afternoon he will attend the capping ceremony. “We have been very fortunate in being able to commission Sir John Madsen for this work,” said Mr Flower last evening. Mr Flower said that the course of discussions would be free and not limited to any particular aspects of the School of Engineering, At present it could only be said that Sir John Madsen would be consulted by the committees and staff of the School of Engineering, and that modern developments would be discussed.