1. Professor Bruce Harold John McKellar was born on 1941 and is an Australian theoretical particle physicist who is Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale in the School of Physics at The University of Melbourne.
In November 2014 McKellar became President of IUPAP, the first-ever Australian to take on this role.
Bruce McKellar is a theoretical particle physicist who is known for his work on particle physics and many other fields such as nuclear physics and cosmology.
Bruce McKellar grew up in Bedgerabong in NSW, attending Bedgerabong Primary School which was then a one teacher school.
Bruce McKellar then attended Forbes High School before moving to Sydney at 16 to study a Bachelor of Science at the University of Sydney, which he completed with First Class Honours and the University Medal for Physics.
Bruce McKellar received his PhD in the University of Sydney in 1965, and a Doctor of Science from the University of Melbourne in 1976.
Immediately on completion of his PhD, Bruce McKellar was appointed as lecturer at the University of Sydney.
In 1965, McKellar was invited by J Robert Oppenheimer to become a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA, which he undertook from 1966 to 1968.
In 1972, at the age of 30, Bruce McKellar was appointed as the Professor of Theoretical Physics at Melbourne University.
Bruce McKellar has held visiting positions at the French Atomic Energy Commission, Saclay, the TRIUMF Laboratories, the University of Washington, the Los Alamos Laboratory, CERN, the Yukawa Institute, the National Taiwan University, the National University of Singapore, the Australian National University and the University of Adelaide.
At Princeton Bruce McKellar began his work on weak interactions, calculating the parity violation in expected in nuclei.
Bruce McKellar started his work on three and many body nuclear forces.
Bruce McKellar has made significant contribution to the development of the study of physics in Australia.
Bruce McKellar was a founding member of the Australian Research Council, playing a key role in both its establishment and development.
Bruce McKellar served on the board of trustees of the sia Pacific Centre for Theoretical Physics and on the Council of the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies for many years.
Bruce McKellar chaired the Regional Committee for Asia and the Pacific of the International Council for Science, as well as the Australia and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science.
Bruce McKellar is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics, the Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society, and the Australian Academy of Science.