Background
Thomas was born in Adelaide and educated at Adelaide Boys High School where he won the Thomas Price Scholarship (for the top student in the South Australian Leaving Examinations) in 1966.
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Anthony William
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Flinders University.
Career
He was awarded the BHP Medal in 1967 as the top student in South Australia in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry in the (new) Matriculation Examinations. He completed a Doctor of Philosophy at Flinders University in 1973. From 1976 to 1982 he was a researcher at TRIUMF (Canada"s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics) in Vancouver.
From 1983 he was Senior Research Scientist there.
In 1983 Thomas accepted an offer of the Chair of Physics at the University of Adelaide, he started there in February 1984. In 1990 he was appointeed Elder Professor of Physics at the University of Adelaide.
From 1991 to 1993 he was President of the Australian Institute of Physics. In 2014, he was named as the South Australian Scientist of the Year for his work on the structure of subatomic matter.
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