Ian McCarthy Collection

Ian Ellery McCarthy was born in Adelaide in 1930, and died in 2005. He graduated from Adelaide University with a PhD in Mathematical Physics in 1956, and did postdoctoral work at Cambridge University, University of Minnesota and UCLA. He taught physics at the Universities of Adelaide, California and Oregon, and in 1968 was appointed Professor of Physics at Flinders University, a post he held until his retirement. During his career he held visiting appointments at many universities around the world.

The Ian McCarthy Collection contains 5 archive boxes and 3 box files of documents, talks and seminars, course notes, photographs, slides and correspondence. They range between the years 1978 and 1999.

The materials are on physics topics, details of physics courses taught at Flinders University, the history of Physics at Flinders, plus photographs and slides used in talks.

General Special Collections conditions of access apply.

List of files

Archive boxes 1-4

1. Talks: Optical model, wave packet scattering
2. Talk: Nuclear Physics in retrospect
3. Talk: CCO Model
4. Seminar: 1st Year A class – Protons in nuclear physics
5. Motion of particles in atomic and nuclear systems
6. Talk: Optical model
7. (e, 2e) Talk: Adelaide U. 1978
8. Talk: ANZAAS, 1980
9. (e, 2e) Talks: Wollongong and Sydney Meetings, 1980
10. Talks: 1985
11. Talk: Electron scattering (1985)
12. Talk: Perth, 1987 (e,2e)
13. Knockout Reactions in Atomic and Nuclear Physics (C?, 1986)
14. Talk: Sydney Congress 1988; Electron Scattering
15. Talk: Superconductivity, 1988
16. Seminar, 1989: Electron-atom scattering and ionization
17. Seminar, Adelaide U, April 1991
18. Talks: Perth 1990 (CCO and EMS)
19. Talks: Montelibretti, 1990
20. Talk: Correlation Satellite, 1991
21. Primary School talk (Australian Science in Schools Week, 1989)
22. Talks: (e, 2e)
23. KL Conference (1992)
24. ICPEAC Satellites, 1995 (includes CD-Rom)
25. FU Seminar, 1995 (ESM Centre), Imaging Talk
26. FU Talk 18/3/96 EMS (Electron Momentum Spectroscopy)
27. Fremantle , 1998 (Understanding Multicentre Electron Orbitals by Electron Momentum Spectroscopy)
28. Vancouver, 1999: Molecular EMS
29. Course: 3rd Year Nuclear
30. QM (Quantum Mechanics lectures) I.E.McCarthy
31. Atomic and Nuclear Physics : Course
32. Atomic and Nuclear 2 Lecture notes
33. Physics: School Interface
34. Course – Physics 1 Teaching details
35. Course – Physics and Modern Man: Matter and Antimatter
36. Course – Mechanics 1
37. Mechanics 1 (Master notes)
38. Solid state : Lecture notes and reviews
39. Lectures: Canberra Summer School 1992 (Atomic and Molecular Physics and Quantum Optics)
40. Lectures: Konstanz, 1990
41. Lecture notes: Theory of Reactions (Master file)
42. Answers: Quantum Phenomena (includes copy of book Quantum Phemonena)
43. CV and list of publications for Ian McCarthy
44. Paintings in Physics Department
45. Physics Research at Flinders 1989-1992
46. Annual Report 1978 – Physics Dept. contribution
47. Photos of the Physics Dept.
48. Physics Dept. History
49. Review of Physics at Flinders University – Submission of Discipline of Physics

Archive Box 5

Duplicate copies of reports from the Electronic Structure of Materials Centre (ESM series) held elsewhere in the Library.

Box files

1. Slides used in talks
2 & 3 Photos – graphs etc.

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GPO Box 2100
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1300 354 633 (Option 3)

List of files

Archive boxes 1-4

Archive Box 5

Box files

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