Dr. Walter F. Davidson
Director, National Facilities
National Research Council of Canada
Ottawa , ON
Dr. Walter Davidson received his education from the Edinburgh Academy 1946-1958; University of Edinburgh, B.Sc. 1962, D.Sc. 1994; University of Manitoba, Ph.D. 1967.
He is currently the Director of National Facilities, National Research Council of Canada. Previous employment includes: Research Fellow, Australian National University 1967-71; scientist, Nuclear Research Centre Jülich, Germany 1971-74; physicist, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France 1974-79; Research Officer NRC 1979-95; Research Council Officer NRC 1995 -; Scientist, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory 1984-90; Executive. Assistant NRC President 1985-86; Adjunct Prof. Carleton Univ. 1986-92; served as Counsellor (Science and Technology) at Canadian Embassy, Bonn, Germany 1990-95.
Dr. Davidson is an Honorary Life Member of Science North, Sudbury, Ont.; Member Canadian Association of Physicists, (President 2005-2006); Corr. Mem. Acad. Nacional Ciencias, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1997; Ottawa-Kingston Ch. Sigma Xi; Specially Elected Fellow Royal Society of Canada 2003; Canadian Representative NATO Committee on Challenges of Modern Society 2005; Canadian Representative on Funding Agencies for Linear Collider 2005; and a Canadian representative on CERN (Geneva) Large Hadron Collider Resources Review Board 2006.
Among these accomplishments, Dr. Davidson is also an author of 110 publications in nuclear and particle physics, and related topics.
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