Person
Weickhardt, Leonard William (Len) (1908 - 2000)
CBE FTSE HonFRACI
- Born
- 2 April 1908
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 14 July 2000
Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Chemist, University Chancellor and Business executive
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)
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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
- 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
Gavan McCarthy [P004098]; Ken McInnes
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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