Brian Wybourne, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Brian Wybourne

academic

Date of Birth: 05-Mar-1935

Place of Birth: Morrinsville, Waikato Region, New Zealand

Date of Death: 26-Nov-2003

Profession: physicist, academic

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Brian Garner Wybourne (5 March 1935 – 26 November 2003) was a New Zealand physicist known for his work on the energy levels of rare-earth ions. Born in Morrinsville in 1935, Wybourne attended Canterbury University College, graduating with an MSc with second-class honours in 1958 and a PhD in 1960.After post-doctoral research positions at Johns Hopkins University and Argonne National Laboratory in the United States, Wybourne returned to the University of Canterbury in 1966 to take up a professorship in physics.
He served as the head of the physics department from December 1982 to November 1989.
In 1991 he was a visiting professor at the Nicholas Copernicus University in Torun, Poland, and decided to remain there permanently.He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1970, and the same year he won the society's Hector Medal, the highest award in New Zealand science at that time.