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Rees, Albert Lloyd George (1916 - 1989)

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Born: 15 January 1916  Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.  Died: 14 August 1989  Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Albert Lloyd G. Rees was Head of the Chemical Physics Section, CSIR/O, Division of Industrial Chemistry 1944-58 and Chief of the Division of Chemical Physics 1958-78. He initiated research in electron microscopy, electron diffraction, optical spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, mass spectroscopy, solid-state physics (including studies of luminescence and fluorescence) and theoretical chemistry. He also contributed to the development of the Australian scientific instrument industry.

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Chronology
1936Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1938Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1939Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at the University of Western Australia
1940Beit Scientific Research Fellow and part-time lecturer in Advanced Inorganic Chemistry at Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London
1940 - 1944Gas Identification Officer for the Cities of Westminster and Wandsworth, UK
1941Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the Imperial College of Science and Technology
1941Diploma of Imperial College completed at the Imperial College of Science and Technology
1941 - 1944Research Chemist with Philips Electrical Industries, UK
1944 - 1958Head of the Chemical Physics Section at the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) / CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Industrial Chemistry
1945Rennie Medal received from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute
1948 - Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI)
1948Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Melbourne
1951 - Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (FANZAAS)
1951H.G. Smith Memorial Medal received from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute
1954 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1954 - 1958Assistant Chief of the CSIRO Division of Industrial Chemistry
1956 - 1965Chairman of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Pure and Applied Chemistry
1957 - 1958President of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Victorian branch
1958 - 1978Chief of the CSIRO Division of Chemical Physics
1961 - 1970Chairman of CSIRO Chemical Research Laboratories
1963President of the ANZAAS Section B (Chemistry)
1964 - 1968Secretary of Physical Sciences at the Australian Academy of Science
1964 - 1973Chairman of the Australian Academy of Science International Relations Committee
1967 - 1969President of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute
1969 - 1971President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
1971Leighton Memorial Medal received from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute
1978Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
1979 - 1980Chairman of the Independent External Review of Defence Science and Technology Organisation
1981 - 1989Fellow of the Faculty of Science at Monash University in Clayton, Victoria

 
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