Biographical entry Shaw, Frederick Stanley (1911 - 1982)

Summary

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.

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Events

1938

Education - Bachelor of Engineering (BE) completed at the University of Western Australia

1942 - 1960

Career position - Research Officer at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne

1946 - 1948

Career position - Research Associate in Applied Mathematics at Brown University in Rhode Island, USA

1947

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Oxford, UK

1951 - 1953

Career position - Visiting Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Brooklyn Polytechnical Institute in New York

1953 - 1960

Career position - Superintendent of Structures Division at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories

1960 - 1971

Career position - Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of New South Wales

Published resources

Online Resources

• '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
• National Library of Australia, 'Shaw, F S', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-561550. Details