Person
Shaw, Frederick Stanley (1911 - 1982)
- Born
- 31 October 1911
Albany, Western Australia, Australia - Died
- 4 November 1982
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- aeronautical engineer and Civil engineer
Summary
Frederick Shaw worked at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne from 1942. During his eighteen year tenure there he had many secondments to Institutes in the USA. Shaw finally left in 1960 to take up an appointment as Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of New South Wales.
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Chronology
- 1938
- Education - Bachelor of Engineering (BE), University of Western Australia
- 1942 - 1960
- Career position - Research Officer at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne
- 1946 - 1948
- Career position - Research Associate in Applied Mathematics at Brown University in Rhode Island, USA
- 1947
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Oxford, UK
- 1951 - 1953
- Career position - Visiting Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Brooklyn Polytechnical Institute in New York
- 1953 - 1960
- Career position - Superintendent of Structures Division at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories
- 1960 - 1971
- Career position - Professor of Civil Engineering, University of New South Wales
Published resources
Resources
- 'Shaw, F S (1911-1982)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-561550. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Shaw, Frederick Stanley', 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/P002239p.htm. Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 29 June 1995, Last modified: 5 March 2018