Person

Vance, Eric Raymond (Lou) (1942 - 2019)

FTSE

Born
15 November 1942
Ararat, Victoria, Australia
Died
7 March 2019
Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Materials scientist and Nuclear physicist

Summary

Lou Vance was a physicist internationally recognised as an authority on the development of wasteforms for nuclear waste. In particular he led research into synroc technology, an artificial mineral for the safe storage of radioactive elements invented by Ted Ringwood, and into its commercialisation potential. After holding several research positions over nearly 20 years in the United Kingdom, the U.S.A. and Canada investigating waste-form technology, Vance became Senior Research Scientist at Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation in 1987. He played a key role in advocating the use of synroc. Vance published over 400 papers and held three patents related to synroc.

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Chronology

1968
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Monash University
1968 - 1969
Career event - Joined Australian Atomic Energy Commission (now Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation)
1969 - 1972
Career position - Research fellow, University College, London
1972 - 1977
Career position - Research fellow, Research School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University
1977 - 1978
Career position - Research fellow, University College, London
1978 - 1979
Career position - Research scientist, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
1979 - 1982
Career position - Research scientist, Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A.
1982 - 1987
Career position - Research scientist, Atomic Energy of Canada, Pinawa, Manitoba, Canada
1987 - 2001
Career position - Senior Research Scientist, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
1987 - 2019
Award - Fellow, Australian Institute of Physics
2001 - ?
Career position - Chief Research Scientist, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
2002 - c. 2016
Career position - Co-editor, Journal of the Australian Ceramic Society
2003
Award - Fellow, American Ceramic Society
2003
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)
2007
Award - Leverhulme Fellowship, University of Cambridge
2008
Award - Fellow, Australian Ceramic Society
2008
Award - Academician, World Academy of Ceramics
2012
Career position - Member, International Advisory Board, Journal of nuclear science and technology
2018
Award - Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, CEO Award - for Sustained Research Contribution (with Mark Reinhard)

Published resources

Journal Articles

  • Anon, 'Eric Raymond "Lou" Vance AO FTSE: physicist's life full of discovery', Impact: magazine of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, 209 (2019), 64, https://www.atse.org.au/what-we-do/strategic-advice/impact-209/. Details
  • Finlayson, Trevor; and Gregg, Dan, 'Vale Eric Raymond (Lou) Vance (1942 - 2019)', Australian Physics, 55 (6) (2019), 162-3. Details

Newspaper Articles

Helen Cohn

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