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Biographical entry Farrant, John Lascelles (1918 - 2003)
- Born
- 7 October 1918
Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Died
- 8 July 2003
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Chemical physicist
Summary
John Lascelles Farrant was a research officer in the Chemical Physics Section, CSIR/O Division of Industrial Chemistry (later Division of Chemical Physics) 1945-82, and Chief Research Scientist 1982.
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Educated University of Western Australia (BSc 1940, MSc 1946). Radium officer, University of Western Australia 1940-41; physicist, Commonwealth X-ray & Radium Laboratory 1941-45; research officer, Chemical Physics Section, CSIR/O Division of Industrial Chemistry (later Division of Chemical Physics) 1945-82, Chief Research Scientist 1982.
Published resources
Online Resources
- 'Farrant, John Lascelles', 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/P001651p.htm. Details
- National Library of Australia, 'Farrant, John', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1051609. Details
See also
- 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
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 15 September 2004
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