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
Related entries
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
- 'Dr Jean E Laby (1915-2008) inducted to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 2009' (2009), http://physics.unimelb.edu.au/Community/Newsroom/News/Dr-Jean-E-Laby-1915-2008-inducted-to-the-Victorian-Honour-Roll-of-Women-2009. Details
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
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38463272. Details
- 'Laby, Jean (19151104-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476427. Details
Resource Sections
- Allen, Nessy, 'Interview with Dr Jean Laby', in Interviews with Australian scientists, Australian Academy of Science, 24 August 2000, https://www.science.org.au/learning/general-audience/history/interviews-australian-scientists/dr-jean-laby-1915-2008-physicist. Details
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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Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 2 March 2018