Geoff Wilson (professor)

{{Short description|Australian nuclear physicist (1938–2020)}}

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| name = Geoff Wilson

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| order = 4th

| office = Vice-Chancellor of Deakin University

| term_start = 1996

| term_end = 2002

| predecessor = John Hay

| successor = Sally Walker

| birth_name = Geoffrey Victor Herbert Wilson

| birth_date ={{Birth date|1938|9|23|df=y}}

| birth_place = Mentone, Victoria, Australia

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| death_place = Geelong, Victoria, Australia

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| discipline = Physics

| sub_discipline = nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, low temperature physics

| workplaces = Central Queensland University
Deakin University

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Geoffrey Victor Herbert Wilson {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (23 September 1938 – 9 January 2020) was an Australian nuclear physicist who made contributions to nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and low temperature physics. His research team achieved the lowest temperature ever recorded in Australia. He was born in Mentone, Victoria.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5es-AQAAIAAJ&q=%22Geoffrey+Victor+Herbert%22 | title=Who's who in Australia 2009: An Australian Biographical Dictionary and Register of Prominent People, with which is Incorporated Johns's Notable Australians (First Issued 1906) | year=2007 | isbn=9781740951661 }}

He was National President of the Australian Institute of Physics and held appointments as Chair of the Victorian and Queensland Vice-Chancellors’ Committees, Vice President and Acting President of the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee. He has been Chair of the Boards of Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre, Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre and the Graduate Careers Council of Australia.

Wilson had a distinguished career as a physicist with more than 100 published papers in international scientific journals. He was a member of the Australian College of Educators and a director of the Australian Institute of Management.{{cite web|url=http://www.fyhe.com.au/past_papers/keynote1.htm|title=First Year Experience|last=Wilson|first=Geoff|date=July 2003|publisher= |accessdate=2012-05-23}}

After retiring from Deakin University he carried out extensive consulting including the development of drafts of the new National Protocols on Higher Education Processes and was a member of the Cooperative Research Centres Committee. He chaired the Board of AMCSearch. Deakin University awards the Geoff Wilson Medal "to celebrate the career of Professor Geoffrey Victor Herbert Wilson AM".{{cite web |url=http://www.deakin.edu.au/scitech/research/gw-medal/ |title=The Geoff Wilson Medal |accessdate= 23 May 2012}}

Wilson died on 9 January 2020 in Geelong, Victoria at the age of 81.{{cite web |title=GEOFFREY VICTOR HERBERT WILSON AM |url=https://tributes.theage.com.au/obituaries/127143/geoffrey-victor-herbert-wilson-am/ |website=The Age |accessdate=11 April 2020}}