Dr ken mccracken biography for kids

physicist

Kenneth G. McCracken, Association for the Study of Internal Fixation is an Australian physicist and leading space scientist, foundation Director of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Office of Space Science and Applications and Foundation Chief of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Division of Mineral Physics.

Education

Kenneth was educated at Morooka Primary, Brisbane (1939), Deepdene Primary, Melbourne (1940-1943) and Telopea Park Primary, Canberra (1943-1944). His secondary schooling was at Canberra High School (1945-1946) and Hobart High School (1946-1949).

Career

He had earlier worked in the United States of America for several years where he occasionally worked as a consultant for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (National Aeronautics and Space Administration).

Kenneth McCracken was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the on