Person

Strauss, Werner Ottmar (1930 - 1978)

Born: 1930
Died: 24 July 1978
Occupation: Chemical engineer

Summary

Werner Strauss was a member of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Melbourne during the 1960s.

Details

Chronology

1956: Education - Master of Engineering (ME), University of Sydney [Thesis: "The effect of pressure on the dissociation constants of weak acids and bases"]
1960s - c. 1978: Career position - Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Melbourne
1978: Buried - Springvale Botanical Cemetery

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

Werner Strauss - Records, 1964, MS 149; 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, Melbourne, 2012, https://www.eoas.info/exhibitions/basser/basser_browse.html. Details

Resources

'Strauss, Werner (1930-1978)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-985710. Details

Resource Sections

'Strauss, Werner - Ms 149', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms149.html. Details

Theses

Strauss, W., 'The effect of pressure on the dissociation constants of weak acids and bases', ME thesis, University of Sydney, 1956. Details

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