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

Summary

Len Weickhardt joined ICI as a Research and Production Chemist in 1935 and was Research Director of Imperial Chemical Industry of Australia and New Zealand (ICIANZ) 1955-1970. He was Chancellor of the University of Melbourne 1972-1978 and active in many organisations.

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Chronology

1935 - 1938

Career position - Chemist, ICI Ltd, United Kingdom

1938 - 1950

Career position - Development and production positions, ICI Ltd, United Kingdom

1944 - 1953

Award - Fellow, Australian Chemical Institute

1950 - 1954

Career position - Personnel Manager, Imperial Chemical Industry of Australia and New Zealand

1953 - 1995

Award - Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical Institute

1955

Career position - General Manager, Imperial Chemical Industry of Australia and New Zealand

1955 - 1970

Career position - Executive and Research Director, Imperial Chemical Industry of Australia and New Zealand

1958

Career position - President, New South Wales Branch, Royal Australian Chemical Institute

1958 - 1959

Career position - President, Royal Australian Chemical Institute

1966 - 1972

Career position - Deputy Chancellor, University of Melbourne

1968

Award - Leighton Memorial Medal, Royal Australian Chemical Institute

1968 - 1980

Career position - Chairman, Nylex Corporation

1970 - 1980

Career position - Chairman, Sidney Cooke Ltd

1970 - 1980

Career position - Chairman, Rocla Industries

1972 - 1978

Career position - Chancellor, University of Melbourne

1975 - 1987

Award - Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)

1976

Award - Doctor of Laws (LLD), honoris causa, University of Melbourne

1976

Award - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) - for Science and Education.

1978 - 1980

Career position - Chairman, Export Finance Insurance Corporation

1979 - 1982

Career position - President, Royal Melbourne Hospital

1980 - 1989

Career position - Chairman, Melbourne Committee, Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research

1987 - 2000

Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Foundation Fellow AATS 1975]

1991

Award - Archibald Ollé Literature Prize, New South Wales Branch, Royal Australian Chemical Institute

1995 - 2000

Award - Honorary Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical Institute (HonFRACI)

Related entries

Archival resources

The University of Melbourne Archives

• Leonard William Weickhardt - Records, 1935 - 1988; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

• Weickhardt, L. W., ANZAAS: the First Half Century as Illuminated by the Spectral Line of Masson (Melbourne: Monash Congress, 1985), 420 at 421-426 pp. Details
• Weickhardt, L.W., Masson of Melbourne: the Life and Times of David Orme Masson KBE, MA, DSc, LLD, FRSE, FRS, Professor of Chemistry, University of Melbourne 1886-1923 (Parkville, Vic: Royal Australian Chemical Institute, 1989), 226 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Weickhardt, L. W., 'Leighton, Arthur Edgar (1873-1961), chemical engineer and administrator' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 69-70. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100064b.htm. Details
• Weickhardt, L. W., 'Masson, Sir David Orme (1858-1937), Chemist, Professor and Man of Science' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 432-435. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100424b.htm. Details
• Weickhardt, L. W., 'Hartung, Ernst Johannes (1893-1970), Professor of Chemistry and Astronomer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 14: 1940 - 1980 Di-Kel, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), pp. 405-406. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140463b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Leonard William Weickhardt', Uni News, 12 (13) (2003), 4. Details
• Weickhardt, L. W., 'The production of sulphamerazine in Australia 1943 - 1945', Australian Chemical Institute Journal and Proceedings, 1947 (March) (1947), 81-120. Details
• Weickhardt, L.W., 'Richard Randolph Garran 1903-1991', Chemistry in Australia, 58 (November) (1991), 471. Details

Newspaper Articles

• Weickhardt, Len; Kolm, Jan; Bradley, John; and Potter, Owen, 'A distinguished, fair and tactful chemical engineer: Ian Robinson, Obituary', The Age (1995). Details

Resources

• 'Weickhardt, L W (1908-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-598738. Details
• 'Awarded honorary LLD, 1976', Honorary degree holders, University of Melbourne, 2023, https://about.unimelb.edu.au/notable-alumni-staff/honorary-degree-holders. Details

See also

• 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_w.html. Details
• Beale, Bob, Engineering a Legacy: Memories of the journey of CSIRO Chemical Engineering (Clayton, Victoria: CSIRO Minerals, 2005), 124 pp. pages 25. 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 (Melbourne: Department of History, University of Melbourne, 2003), 168 pp. Details