Jim Falk
Jim Falk (born (1946-10-26)26 October 1946) is a physicist and academic researcher on science and technology studies.
Background
Jim Falk was born in Oxford, England. His father was the philosopher Prof. Werner D. Falk (latterly Professor at the University of North Carolina), and his mother an Australian, Dr. Barbara Cohen. Werner Falk had fled Germany prior to World War II and was studying and lecturing at the University of Oxford. The family moved to Australia when Jim Falk was young, when his father worked at the University of Melbourne. Falk attended Scotch College from 1952 to 1964, graduated with first class honours in physics at Monash University in 1968, and received his PhD from Monash in theoretical quantum physics in 1974. He and his partner, Sue Rowley, have two adult children and live in Melbourne.
He was:
1976–1979 Lecturer (P/T), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Swinburne College of Advanced Education
1979 Research Officer, Senator Arthur Gietzelt (Shadow Minister for Consumer Affairs)