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Shaw, Frederick Stanley (1911 - 1982)

aeronautical engineer and Civil engineer

Born: 31 October 1911 Albany, Western Australia, Australia. Died: 4 November 1982 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Frederick Stanley Shaw worked at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne from 1942. During his eighteen year tenure there he had many secondments to Institutes in the USA. Shaw finally left in 1960 to take up an appointment as Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of New South Wales.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1938 Bachelor of Engineering (BE) completed at the University of Western Australia
1942 - 1960 Research Officer at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne
1946 - 1948 Research Associate in Applied Mathematics at Brown University in Rhode Island, USA
1947 Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Oxford, UK
1951 - 1953 Visiting Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Brooklyn Polytechnical Institute in New York
1953 - 1960 Superintendent of Structures Division at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories
1960 - 1971 Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of New South Wales

Online Sources

'Shaw, Frederick Stanley', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P002239p.htm. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: Rosanne Walker
Created: 29 June 1995
Modified: 3 October 2005

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