J. Havelock Fidler read Zoology and Botany at Cambridge before studying Agricultural Entomology for hist doctorate at Reading University. He has spent over thirty years in agricultural research and became interested in dowsing in 970. Since then he has devised a number of quantitative methods in relation to dowsing and has published several articles on the subject in specialist journals.
Walter C. Rawls, Jr., scientist, lawyer, was born in Richmond, Virginia. His sociological and scientific investigations have taken him to many countries of the world as a consultant to governments and world organizations. He is acknowledged in national and international directories and is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the New York Academy of Sciences. For the past six years he has actively worked with the Albert Roy Davis Research Laboratory in Green Cove Springs, Florida.
Albert Roy Davis, scientist, was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As professor of physics, he taught physics, aerodynamics and electronics, establishing the Albert Roy Davis Research Laboratory at Green Cove Springs, Florida, in 1938. He has authored over 300 general science courses adopted for grade schools, high schools and colleges in the United States and many nations of the world. Recipient of a number of honorary doctoral degrees for his scientific investigations, he is considered an accepted authority on, and the founder of, the Science of Biomagnetics, the separate energy effect. His memberships include the New York Academy of Sciences and the Explorers' Club, of which he is a Fellow.
Born in the UK in 1927, Irving went on to complete his undergraduate training in geology at Cambridge. In June of 1951, he was recruited to assist British geophysicist, Keith Runcorn, whose pioneering studies of paleomagnetism provided early evidence in support of the theory of continental drift. They collected samples from the Torridonian Sandstone of Northwest Scotland for a paleomagnetic study. This work was to become the start of Irving’s PhD.
Irving was also instrumental in the early development of the magnetometer so that it could be adapted to measure rock magnetism. His 1954 PhD thesis included measurements from the Indian Deccan Traps which indicated that, since the early Tertiary, ‘India had moved from the Southern Hemisphere through 53º of latitude and had rotated counterclockwise by 28º, a motion required by (the then-controversial continental drift theory of) Wegener’.
In his last year as a PhD student at Cambridge, Irving applied to work in a research position at The Australian National University (ANU). He was offered a Research Fellowship in geophysics and arrived in Canberra in January 1955.