Biographical entry Rees, Albert Lloyd George (1916 - 1989)

Summary

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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Events

1936

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne

1938

Education - Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne

1939

Career position - Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at the University of Western Australia

1940

Career position - Beit Scientific Research Fellow and part-time lecturer in Advanced Inorganic Chemistry at Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London

1940 - 1944

Career position - Gas Identification Officer for the Cities of Westminster and Wandsworth, UK

1941

Education - Diploma of Imperial College completed at the Imperial College of Science and Technology

1941

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the Imperial College of Science and Technology

1941 - 1944

Career position - Research Chemist with Philips Electrical Industries, UK

1944 - 1958

Career position - Head 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

1945

Award - Rennie Medal received from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute

1948 -

Award - Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI)

1948

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Melbourne

1951 -

Award - Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (FANZAAS)

1951

Award - H.G. Smith Memorial Medal received from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute

1954 -

Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1954 - 1958

Career position - Assistant Chief of the CSIRO Division of Industrial Chemistry

1956 - 1965

Career position - Chairman of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Pure and Applied Chemistry

1957 - 1958

Career position - President of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Victorian branch

1958 - 1978

Career position - Chief of the CSIRO Division of Chemical Physics

1961 - 1970

Career position - Chairman of CSIRO Chemical Research Laboratories

1963

Career position - President of the ANZAAS Section B (Chemistry)

1964 - 1968

Career position - Secretary of Physical Sciences at the Australian Academy of Science

1964 - 1973

Career position - Chairman of the Australian Academy of Science International Relations Committee

1967 - 1969

Career position - President of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute

1969 - 1971

Career position - President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

1971

Award - Leighton Memorial Medal received from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute

1978

Award - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

1979 - 1980

Career position - Chairman of the Independent External Review of Defence Science and Technology Organisation

1981 - 1989

Career position - Fellow of the Faculty of Science at Monash University in Clayton, Victoria

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Albert Lloyd George Rees - Records, 1951 - 1979, MS 109; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science Exhibitions

• Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details

Books

• Buchanan, Rod; McCarthy, Gavan; Scillio, Mark; O'Sullivan, Lisa, A Guide to the Records of Albert Lloyd George Rees, Australian Science Archives Project, Melbourne, 1993, 142 pp. Details
• Rees, A.L.G., Science in Bondage: the Inaugural Ian William Wark Lecture, 30 November 1987, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, 1987, 16 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Bartels, Ditta, 'Speech by Ditta Bartels at launch of the Guide to the Records of Albert Lloyd George Rees', History of Australian Science Newsletter, vol. 32, Australian Science Archives Project, Canberra, 1994. Also available at http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/hasn/no32/feats32.htm#rees. Details
• Rees, A. L. G., 'Ian William Wark 1899-1985', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 6, no. 4, 1987, pp. 533-548. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9870640533.htm. Details
• Walsh, A. and Willis, J. B., 'Albert Lloyd George Rees 1916-1989', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 9, no. 1, 1992, pp. 31-47. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9920910031.htm. Details

Online Resources

• 'Rees, Albert Lloyd George', 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/P000734p.htm. Details
• Buchanan, Rod; Gavan McCarthy; Mark Scillio with Lisa O'Sullivan, Albert Lloyd George Rees Guide to Records, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2004, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/rees/rees.htm. Details
• 'Rees, A L G', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-616407. Details
• Ward, C., 'Albert Lloyd George Rees', in CSIROpedia, 2011, http://csiropedia.csiro.au/display/CSIROpedia/Rees%2C+Albert+Lloyd+George. Details

See also

• Hyde, B. G. and Day, P, 'John Stuart Anderson', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 9, no. 2, 1992. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9920920127.htm. Details
• Hyde, B. G. and Day, P, 'John Stuart Anderson', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 9, no. 2, 1992. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9920920127.htm. Details
• Wisdom, John, A History of Defence Science in Australia, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Melbourne, 1995, 267 pp. Details