Scientists from Otago
DE. C. M. FOCKEN broadcast from 4YA on Wednesday of this week with Miss A, Blackie, M.Sc. They discussed the question "What is Light?" Next week, from 4YA at 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 30, Dr. Focken’s subject will be "New Physical Ideas and Riddles." He is to broadcast also on August 6 and 20. Miss Blackie is Lecturer in Physics at the University of Otago, and a graduate of the same University. Light and acoustics are her special subjects, and she has lectured in them for some years to students studying Medicine, Dentistry, Science, Home Science, Mining, and Music, She is particularly interested in colour vision and the tests which have been devised by physicists and psychologists for detecting defects.
Dr. Focken is Beverly-Mackenzie Lecturer in Physics at the University of Otago. He graduated with high honours in Science and Mining Engineering from Melbourne University in 1923. In that year he was selected Rhodes Scholar for Victoria. At Oxford University he carried out research work on the discharge of electricity through gases and received a doctorate for these investigations. He was appointed to his present position in 1927. In 1933 he was selected for a Commonwealth Fund Service Fellowship for advanced studies in physics and geophysics in America. During the years spent in England and the United States he travelled widely and visited the leading Universities and Technical Institutions. He has published work in the subjects of heat and ultraviolet radiation, geophysical prospecting, and modern electrical science,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 57, 26 July 1940, Page 9
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