Education
Born in Morrinsville in 1935, Wybourne attended Canterbury University College, graduating with an Master of Science with second-class honours in 1958 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1960.
Born in Morrinsville in 1935, Wybourne attended Canterbury University College, graduating with an Master of Science with second-class honours in 1958 and a Doctor of Philosophy 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 Toruń, Poland, and decided to remain there permanently.