About John Gordon Rushbrooke
Lived 1936 – 2003 (aged 66–67). John Gordon Rushbrooke was a physicist.
John Gordon Rushbrooke (1936–2003) was an Australian particle physicist.
The son of Neil and Vera Rushbrooke, with four sisters, Rushbrooke was born in Geelong in 1936 and was brought up there. He attended Geelong Grammar School, where he was at the top of every class.
In 1959 Rushbrooke won a scholarship that took him to King's College, Cambridge.
In 1983 Rushbrooke was promoted to a readership in physics at Cambridge, and in 1991 the university conferred on him a second doctorate. He moved to California in 2000 after securing a contract with a major US company.
Rushbrooke died in California in 2003, at the age of 67.
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