Kenneth Stanley Warner Champion

Background

Champion, Kenneth Stanley Warner was born on December 7, 1923 in Sydney, NSW, Australia. Son of Cecil Alexander Buckingham and Ellen Catherine (Moxham) Champion.

Education

Bachelor of Science, U. Sydney, 1945; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Birmingham, England, 1951.

Career

Assistant lecturer physics, U. Queensland, Australia, 1946-1949; research fellow, Australian National U., 1949-1952; research associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1952-1954; assistant professor physics, Tufts U., Medford, Massachusetts, 1954-1959; research scientist, senior scientist, Atmospheric Physics/Branch Chief, 1959-1964; senior executive, Air Force Cambridge Research laboratories/Phillips Laboratory, 1964-1994. British Council Research scholar, 1947-1949. Visiting professor U. Adelaide, Australia, 1964.

Presenter in field in 21 countries.

Achievements

• Kenneth Stanley Warner Champion has been listed as a noteworthy Physicist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Co-president Parent-Teachers Association, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1965-1975. Fellow Physical Society of London. Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (associate fellow), New York Academy Sciences, American Physical Society, American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Mavis Audrey Hinckley, November 27, 1948. Children: Annette, Gwendalyn, Geoffrey, Sandra.

Father:

Cecil Alexander Buckingham Champion

Mother:

Ellen Catherine (Moxham) Champion

Spouse:

Mavis Audrey Hinckley

child:

Geoffrey Champion

child:

Sandra Champion

child:

Gwendalyn Champion

child:

Annette Champion