Photograph, David Caro

Historical information

Born in 1922 David Caro was educated at the Universities of Melbourne and Birmingham. Caro and John Rouse built the world’s first high speed, variable energy nuclear accelerator or Cyclotron.

He was appointed as Vice-Chancellor at the University of Melbourne, and he later became Vice-Chancellor at the Northern Territory University and Chancellor at the University of Ballarat (later Federation University. He was awarded an AO in 1986.

Physical description

Photograph of David Caro, Chancellor of the University of Ballarat.

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