Arthur Anderson passed away in March 2006 after a year long battle with cancer. Arthur had a long association with the School of Physics. He completed his PhD with the Acoustics group within the Department of Applied Physics. Later he became a senior lecturer in science and maths teacher education, at the St George Campus of the UNSW (1990-1998). During this time Arthur was also a Visiting Fellow in the Advanced Electronics Materials group here in the School of Physics, where he studied the ultrasonic properties of high temperature superconductors. Arthur was awarded a mature aged research fellowship to Japan in 1997 funded by the Japanese government, to continue his work on ultrasonics. Following the closure of the St George campus, Arthur started teaching high school full time and was awarded an Outstanding Professional Service Award in 2004 from the Professional Teaching Council of NSW.

Always enthusiastic, and full of good humour, Arthur would arrive at the lab after work ready to tackle anything and keen to chat about the latest developments in superconductivity. His ability was broad. Arthur would rather design and build his own interface cards, temperature controllers and amplifiers than buy commercial units. He revelled in the fact that he could build an instrument at a fraction of the price of buying the equivalent from a company. Arthur was not only a proficient electronics designer, he continued publishing his research and maintained a collaboration with the International Superconductivity Technology Centre in Japan, even when sick. He used to say it kept is mind off other things.

Arthur is survived by his wife and children. We miss him in the lab.

Jack Cochrane