Person
Farrant, John Lascelles (1918 - 2003)
- Born
- 7 October 1918
Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Died
- 8 July 2003
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Chemical physicist
Summary
John Farrant was a research officer in the Chemical Physics Section, CSIR/O Division of Industrial Chemistry (later Division of Chemical Physics) 1945-1982, and Chief Research Scientist 1982.
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Educated University of Western Australia (BSc 1940, MSc 1946). Radium officer, University of Western Australia 1940-41; physicist, Commonwealth X-ray & Radium Laboratory 1941-45; research officer, Chemical Physics Section, CSIR/O Division of Industrial Chemistry (later Division of Chemical Physics) 1945-82, Chief Research Scientist 1982.
Published resources
Resources
- 'Farrant, John (19181007-20030708)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1051609. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Farrant, John Lascelles', 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/P001651p.htm. Details
- Ward, C., 'John Lascelles Farrant', in CSIROpedia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 2011, https://csiropedia.csiro.au/Farrant-John-Lascelles. Details
See also
- Walsh, A.; and Willis, J. B., 'Albert Lloyd George Rees 1916-1989', Historical Records of Australian Science, 9 (1) (1992), 31-47. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9920910031. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 28 February 2018
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