Biographical entry Field, Leslie David (1953 - )

Summary

Leslie David Field is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Sydney and, excluding his time there as a student, has worked there for over twenty years. During this time Field has built up an international reputation for his research on novel reagents containing coordinatively unsaturated transition metals and for his extensive work in the field of NMR spectroscopy including novel studies on heteronuclear coherence transfer and multiple quantum NMR.

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1975

Education - Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc (Hons)) completed at the University of Sydney

1979

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

1979 - 1981

Career position - Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Southern California, USA

1980 - 1981

Career position - Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California

1981 - 1982

Career position - Research Fellow in the Dyson Perrins Laboratory at the University of Oxford, UK

1983 - 1990

Career position - Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at the University of Sydney

1984

Award - Rennie Medal received from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI)

1986

Award - David Edgeworth Medal received from the Royal Society of New South Wales

1991

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

1991 - 1993

Career position - Reader in Organic Chemistry at the University of Sydney

1993

Award - RACI Organic Chemistry Medal received

1994 -

Career position - Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Sydney

1996 -

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

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• National Library of Australia, 'Field, L D', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1091771. Details