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Curnow, William
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- Curnow, Bill
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1938-
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William (Bill) Charles Curnow was born on 22 September 1938 and grew up on a dairy farm, which was sold in 1952. The family moved to Brisbane to allow the Curnow children to attend high school. Curnow secured a Commonwealth Scholarship to study architecture at the University of Queensland. At that time the architecture course was embedded with engineering and science. Following graduation, Curnow's professional life included positions as an architectural assistant at the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Amberley; a secondment to CSIRO as Northern Regional Architect working on the development of research laboratories; further work with CSIRO in Melbourne as Project Manager and Architect for the Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL); various roles in correctional services; positions with Thiess, the mining services company; and an appointment as Conjoint Professor and Chairman, Property and Infrastructure Development within the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Newcastle University. He retired at the age of 65 to begin researching a cure for Parkinson's disease, which he was diagnosed with in 2003.
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Revised, Kymberley Doyle, 13-Mar-2025.
Created, Linda Justo, 11-Jun-2021.
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Curnow, William (2016) 'From architecture to emerging disease control' 50 Alumni Friends of UQ stories : 1967 - 2017, accessed online on 11 June 2021.
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Revised with access point and dates of existence, Kymberley Doyle, 13-Mar-2025.