Person

Glenn, Joseph Robert Archibald (Archibald) (1911 - 2012)

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Born
24 May 1911
Sale, Victoria, Australia
Died
4 January 2012
Melbourne (late of Mount Eliza), Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Chemical engineer and University Chancellor

Summary

Sir Archibald Glenn was Design and Construction Engineer, ICIANZ Ltd 1935-1944 and led a team which built a plant to manufacture sulphamerazine during the Second World War.

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Chronology

1931
Career event - Student Member (StudIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1934
Education - Bachelor of Civil Engineering (BCE), University of Melbourne
1937
Career event - Junior Member (JrIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1945
Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1964 -
Career position - Chairman, Working Committee to select site for Victoria's third university
1964 - 1972
Career position - Chancellor, La Trobe University
1965
Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
12 Jun 1965
Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) - for service to industry
3 Jun 1966
Award - Knight Bachelor - for distinguished service, particularly as Chairman of the Interim Council of Latrobe University
13 Sep 1968
Career event - Fellow (FIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Members were designated Fellows on this date.]
1970
Award - James N Kirby Award, Institute of Production Engineers

Colleague

  • Lamont, F.

    During the Second World War, Archibald Glenn, F. Lamont, and Len Weickhardt successfully built a plant for manufacturing sulphamerazine, a drug that was effective against the malignant form of Malaria.

  • Weickhardt, Leonard William (Len) (1908 - 2000)

    During the Second World War, Archibald Glenn, F. Lamont, and Len Weickhardt successfully built a plant for manufacturing sulphamerazine, a drug that was effective against the malignant form of Malaria.

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See also

  • Who's who in Australia 1998 (Melbourne: Information Australia Group, 1998), 1720 pp. Page 649. Details
  • Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_g.html. Details

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