Professor Douglas H. Bradhurst (PhD, 1963)

Provided by Mrs Margaret Bradhurst

In 1960, after graduating with a BSc and MSc from Melbourne University, Australia, Doug travelled to London where he obtained his PhD in metallurgy at Imperial College.  He worked at the Argonne National Laboratory of the US Atomic Energy Commission in Chicago before returning to Australia where he joined the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in Sydney.  His main field of research was on corrosion of metals in nuclear reactors.

In 1981 he transferred to CSIRO Division of Fuel Technology to work on renewable energy associated with hydrogen fuelled vehicles.  In 1988 he was appointed Director of the Microwave Research Centre at Wollongong University before being appointed Professor in the University's Institute of Superconductivity and Electronic Materials.

Doug's career covered a wide and varied spectrum from nuclear energy to microwave processing of wool bales, from renewable energy to solar cells and high -energy battery electrodes.

He will be greatly missed by his wife Margaret and their son, two daughters and eight grandchildren.