Person

Laby, Jean (1915 - 2008)

Born
4 November 1915
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died
31 May 2008
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Physicist

Summary

Jean Laby was a senior lecturer, RAAF Academy, Point Cook, c.1961-1982. She undertook research on cosmic rays and wind studies. For most of the 1970s she was involved in a collaborative project with the Climate Impact Assessment Program through the University of Wyoming to measure atmospheric aerosols, ozone and water vapour in the stratosphere. In 2009 Dr. Laby was inducted to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women.

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Chronology

1939
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
c. 1940 - c. 1944
Career position - Demonstrator in Physics, Department of Natural Philosophy, University of Melbourne, later assisted with departmental accounting
c. 1945 - 1959
Career position - Senior Demonstrator, School of Physics, University of Melbourne
1951
Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne
1959
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Melbourne
1959 - c. 1961
Career position - Lecturer, University of Melbourne
c. 1961 - c. 1982
Career position - Senior Lecturer at the RAAF Academy in Point Cook

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Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Articles

Journal Articles

  • Allen, Nessy, 'The Exception to the Rule: the Career of an Australian Woman Physicist [Jean Laby]', Australian and New Zealand Physicist, 30 (12) (1993), 305-309. Details
  • Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Laby Family', Uni News, 11 (24) (2002), 4. Details

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See also

  • 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
  • Flesch, Juliette, 40 years, 40 women: biographies of University of Melbourne women, published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the International Year of Women (Carlton, Vic.: University of Melbourne Library, 2015), 88 pp. Details
  • Rasmussen, Carolyn, 'Science was so Much More Exciting: Six Women in the Physical Sciences' in On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science, Farley Kelly, ed. (Melbourne: Text Publishing Company, 1993), pp. 105-131. Details

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