Paul Wild (Australian scientist) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-18

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00:02:08 1 Early life
00:06:49 2 Physics by accident
00:09:04 3 Wartime naval service
00:12:20 4 "Humble" start in Australia
00:15:02 5 Solar burst discoveries
00:23:14 6 World lead in solar research
00:28:36 7 Researcher and administrator
00:30:17 8 Practical application: a microwave landing system
00:34:03 9 National science leadership
00:39:59 10 Bold attempt to revolutionize Australian transport
01:02:00 11 Latter years
01:09:07 12 Honours
01:11:32 13 Memorial
01:12:05 14 Select bibliography
01:12:16 15 See also



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Dr John Paul Wild AC CBE MA ScD (Cantab.) FRS  FTSE FAA (17 May 1923 – 10 May 2008) was a British-born Australian scientist. Following service in World War II as a radar officer in the Royal Navy, he became a radio astronomer in Australia for the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, the fore-runner of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). In the 1950s and 1960s he made discoveries based on radio observations of the Sun. In the late 1960s and early 1970s his team built and operated the world's first solar radio-spectrographs and subsequently the Culgoora radio-heliograph, near Narrabri, New South Wales. The Paul Wild Observatory at Culgoora is named after him.
In 1972 Paul Wild invented Interscan, a standard microwave landing system. From 1978 to 1985 he was chairman of the CSIRO, during which time he expanded the organisation's scope and directed its restructuring. He retired from the CSIRO to lead (from 1986) the Very Fast Train Joint Venture, a private sector project that sought to build a high-speed railway between Australia's two most populous cities. Lack of support from government brought it to an end in 1991. In his later years he worked on gravitational theory.