Rees, Albert Lloyd George (1916 - 1989)

Summary

Albert Rees was Head of the Chemical Physics Section, CSIR/O, Division of Industrial Chemistry 1944-1958 and Chief of the Division of Chemical Physics 1958-1978. 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

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 Memorial Medal, Australian Chemical Institute

1948

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

1948 - 1953

Career position - Fellow, Australian Chemical Institute

1951

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

1951 - 1989

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

1952

Award - Archibald Liversidge Medal and Lecture, Royal Society of New South Wales

1953 - 1989

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

1954 - 1958

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

1954 - 1989

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

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 - 1968

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

1987

Award - Ian Wark Medal and Lecture, Australian Academy of Science

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 and Innovation 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 (Melbourne: Australian Science Archives Project, 1993), 142 pp. Details
• Rees, A.L.G., Science in Bondage: the Inaugural Ian William Wark Lecture, 30 November 1987 (Canberra: Australian Academy of Science, 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, 32 (1994). 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, 6 (4) (1987), 533-548. https://doi.org/10.1071HR9870640533. Details
• Walsh, A.; and Willis, J. B., 'Albert Lloyd George Rees 1916-1989', Historical Records of Australian Science, 9 (1) (1992), 31-47. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9920910031. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28059431. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/94393987. 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 (1916-1989)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-616407. Details

Resource Sections

• '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
• Ward, C., 'Albert Lloyd George Rees', in CSIROpedia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 2011, https://csiropedia.csiro.au/Rees-Albert-Lloyd-George. Details

See also

• Hyde, B. G.; and Day, P, 'John Stuart Anderson', Historical Records of Australian Science, 9 (2) (1992), 127-49. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9920920127. Details
• Wisdom, John, A History of Defence Science in Australia (Melbourne: Defence Science and Technology Organisation, 1995), 267 pp. Details