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Kenneth Le Couteur was born on 16 September, 1920 in Saint Helier, Jersey, is a Kenneth James Le Couteur was British. Discover Kenneth Le Couteur's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

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Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 16 September, 1920
Birthday 16 September
Birthplace Saint Helier, Jersey
Date of death 18 April, 2011
Died Place Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Nationality Australia

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1902

There he studied Mathematics, tutored by Ebenezer Cunningham, who had been the senior wrangler in 1902, and rowed for the college.

1920

Kenneth James Le Couteur (16 September 1920 – 18 April 2011) was a British physicist who was the foundation Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Australian National University in Canberra.

During World War II he worked at Bletchley Park as a codebreaker.

Kenneth James Le Couteur was born in Saint Helier on the island of Jersey, the son of Philippe Le Couteur, the owner of a carpentry business, and his wife Eva Gartrell.

He was educated at Victoria College Preparatory School and Victoria College on Jersey, where he was inspired to become a mathematician by his maths teacher, who had been a wrangler at the University of Cambridge in England.

1938

He received a scholarship to study at St John's College, Cambridge, which he entered in 1938.

1940

The German occupation of the Channel Islands in 1940 left him stranded in England, cut off from his family.

1941

He was awarded his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1941, winning the Mayhew Prize for the student showing the greatest distinction in applied Mathematics.

He was recruited by the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park as a cryptanalyst.

Le Couteur worked on the Enigma machines, and then the Lorenz cipher, codenamed Tunny by the British.

The codebreaking process was partly automated, using Robinson machines and the Colossus computers.

1945

After the war ended in 1945, Le Couteur returned to Cambridge as a Fellow of St John's College, where he worked on his doctorate.

1946

His academic supervisor initially was Maurice Pryce, but he became the Wykeham Professor of Physics at Oxford University in 1946, and Nicholas Kemmer took over.

1948

Le Couteur was awarded a Turner and Newall Fellowship to study at the University of Manchester, where he completed his doctorate in 1948–49 under the supervision of Léon Rosenfeld.

1949

His thesis, on Meson Theory, was submitted in 1949, and he was awarded his PhD from Cambridge.

At Manchester, he began investigation of the evaporation theory of nuclear disintegration.

He also met Enid Margaret Domville, who worked there as a librarian.

Le Couteur became a lecturer in physics at the University of Liverpool in 1949.

There he continued developing relativistic wave equations and working on his evaporation theory.

He also provided theoretical physicist support of the work of the experimentalists working on the university's 37-inch cyclotron, and collaborated with Ernest Titterton from the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) in Harwell, Oxfordshire.

His work on the Peeler-Regenerative Beam Extraction Method brought him renown, and his solution was employed in the design of subsequent cyclotrons.

He also became known for his work on the statistical model of excited nuclei, which he would continue to pursue in Australia.

1950

They were married on 14 July 1950.

They had three children, all daughters: Caroline, Penelope and Mary (Avinashi), and a foster daughter, Marion Chesher.

1956

In 1956, Mark Oliphant recruited Le Couteur as the foundation Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Australian National University in Canberra.

When Le Couteur arrived, the faculty of the department consisted of himself and Frederick Barker.

Le Couteur took up the position in April 1956, and remained for the rest of his career, except for study leave at CERN and the AERE in 1959 and 1960.

1960

In 1960 he was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

1962

In 1962 Le Couteur arranged for the department to acquire an IBM 1620 as its first computer; it was programmed for numerical calculations in the FORTRAN language.

1963

He was also involved in the design and planning of a new Mathematical Sciences building, completed in 1963 and in 1996 renamed the Le Couteur Building.

1964

He enjoyed the new location, sailing and rock fishing on the nearby South Coast of New South Wales, and sailing on Lake Burley Griffin after the lake was filled in 1964.

1973

He was the acting Director of the Research School of Physical Sciences on many occasions, occupying the position for extended periods from September 1973 until September 1974, and from February to December 1978.

1985

When he retired in December 1985, he became a professor emeritus, which he remained until 1989.

1988

In 1988, he moved to the Ginninderra Gardens Aged Care Facility in the Canberra suburb of Page.

2001

He was recognised with the award of the Centenary Medal in 2001 "for service to Australian society and science in theoretical physics".

2011

He died on 18 April 2011.

He was survived by his wife and daughters.