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John R. Philip
John R. Philip
Pages 194-199
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John displayed prodigious mathematical talent at an early age and won an open scholarship to Scotch College (high school) in Melbourne, his ticket out of depression era rural poverty.
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gases through the natural environment of soils, plants, and the atmosphere. In John's recent words, "I blundered into a line of work that has turned out, over the past fifyv years, to be more fun than work." John's funding ran out after a year and he joined the Queensland Water Supply Commission as an engineer responsible for design of irrigation supply canals.
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John to pursue independent research in agricultural physics. John set out to develop a mathematically rigorous theory of water movement and heat flow in shallow agricultural soils.
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John was a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Royal Society of London, the Royal Meteorological Society, and the Soil Science Society of America. He was a foreign member of the All-Union (now Russian)
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, and Ian White (Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)
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