Biographical entry Eirich, Frederick Roland (1905 - )

Summary

Frederick Roland Eirich was an Austrian physical chemist who worked in Europe, the United States of America and Australia. His main post in Australia was as a research officer at the Lubricants and Bearings Section of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Eirich later became distinguished professor of the Polymer Chemistry unit of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He was author of several key works.

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1929

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Vienna

1929 - 1938

Career position - Assistant in the Department of Colloid Chemistry at the University of Vienna

1938

Career position - Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at the University of Vienna

1938

Education - Doctorate of Philosophy Habilitation (D. Phil. Habil.) received from the University of Vienna

1938 - 1939

Career position - Research Associate in the Department of Colloid Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, UK

1939 - 1941

Career position - Civilian internee in the UK and Australia

1941 - 1943

Career position - Research Officer in the Lubricants and Bearings Section at CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)

1944 - 1946

Career position - Research Associate in Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge

1947 - 1951

Career position - Associate Professor of Polymer Chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, USA

1951 - 1969

Career position - Professor of Polymer Chemistry at Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, USA

1969 -

Career position - Distinguished Professor of Polymer Chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, USA

Published resources

Online Resources

• 'Eirich, Frederick Roland', 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/P001644p.htm. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Eirich, F R', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-978676. Details