Laby, Thomas Howell (1880 - 1946)

Books

• Muirhead, Edmund, A Man Ahead of his Times: T.H. Laby's Contribution to Australian Science, School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 1996, 134 pp. [ Details ]

Book Chapters

• Close, Cecily, 'Laby, Thomas Howell (1880-1946), Physicist', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 9, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1983, pp. 640-641. (Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090643b.htm) [ Details ]

• Home, R.W., 'Thomas Howell Laby, 1880-1946', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. [ Details ]

Journal Articles

• Dean, Katrina, 'Inscribing Settler Science: Ernest Rutherford, Thomas Laby and the Making of Careers in Physics', History of Science, vol. 41, 2003, pp. 217-240. [ Details ]

• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Laby Family', Uni News, vol. 11, no. 24, 2002, p. 4. [ Details ]

• Martin, L. H., 'Obituary: Professor T. H. Laby, FRS', Australian Journal of Science, vol. 9, no. 2, 1946, pp. 64-65. [ Details ]

• Massey, Harrie Stewart Wilson, 'T. H. Laby, FRS: the 1980 Laby memorial lecture', Australian Physicist, vol. 17, no. 11, 1980, pp. 181-187. [ Details ]

• Caro, D. E.; Martin, R. L., 'Leslie Harold Martin 1900-1983', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 7, no. 1, 1987, pp. 97-107. (Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9870710097.htm) [ Details ]

• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne, Department of History, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2003, 168 pp. [ Details ]

• White, F. W.G., 'Robert Gordon Menzies (1894-1978)', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 5, no. 1, 1980, pp. 68-102. (Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9800510068.htm) [ Details ]

• Wisdom, John, A History of Defence Science in Australia, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Melbourne, 1995, 267 pp. [ Details ]

• 'Laby, Thomas Howell', 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/P000553p.htm. [ Details ]
• 'Laby, Thomas Howell', in The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/omp/people/laby.htm. [ Details ]
• Sutherland, Denise, 'The Giant's Eye: Optical Munitions in Australia', Australasian Science, vol. Spring, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journals/as_omp.htm. [ 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/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P000553. [ Details ]
• Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/scripts/fam-dynindex.php3?EID=P000553. [ Details ]
• Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/scripts/smv-dynindex.php3?EID=P000553. [ Details ]
• Bolton, H. C., 'Optical Instruments in Australia in the 1939-45 War: successes and lost opportunities', Australian Physicist, 1990, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/papers/bolton2.htm. [ Details ]
• Sherratt, Tim; Condé, Anne-Marie, A Wartime Observatory Observed - the Mount Stromlo Community, 1940-1945, Australian Science Archives Project, Canberra, 1994, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/articles/tps/tps_stromlo_draft.htm. [ Details ]