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Lehany, Frederick John (1915 - 1994)

Physicist

Born: 10 April 1915 New Zealand. Died: 6 August 1994 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Frederick John Lehany worked for CSIR/O as Chief of the Division of Electrotechnology. This gradually became amalgamated with other divisions to form the National Measurement Laboratory, of which he became the first director in 1974. The main lecture room at the Laboratory was named the Lehany Theatre in his memory. Lehany was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) and received an Doctor of Science honoris causa (Hon DSc) from the University of Sydney.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1935 Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Otago, New Zealand
1936 Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Otago
1937 Dip Hons completed at the University of Otago
1938 Teacher in New Zealand
1939 - 1945 Physicist with Amalgamated Wireless Australasia
1945 - 1948 Senior Research Officer at the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Division of Radiophysics
1948 - 1961 Senior Research Officer at the CSIR/ CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Electrotechnology
1949 - 1961 Chief of the CSIRO Division of Electrotechnology
1961 - 1974 Chief of the CSIRO Division of Applied Physics
1974 - 1979 Director of the National Measurement Laboratory

Online Sources

'Lehany, Frederick John', 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/P001723p.htm. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 30 May 2006

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