Anthony Thomas
Medicine
University of Adelaide
Australia
Biography
After a PhD at Flinders University and experience as a staff member at TRIUMF in Canada and CERN in Geneva, Prof. Thomas arrived in Adelaide in February 1984. He served as Deputy Chairman of the Physics Department and for four years as the first Head of the new Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics. He also served as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Science, and was elected to the University Council from 1991 to 1997. In 1989 he was appointed Elder Professor of Physics - the sixth person to hold the chair first held in 1886 by Sir William Bragg. He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1987 and the Australian Academy of Science (AAS) in 1990. In 1987 he won the Walter Boas Medal (of the Australian Institute of Physics, the AIP), and in 1991 the Inaugural Silver Jubilee Commemoration Medal of Flinders University.
Research Interest
Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc
