Albert Lloyd George Rees, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About Albert Lloyd George Rees
- Albert Lloyd George Rees CBE, DSc, FAA (1916–1989) was an Australian chemical physicist.He was born the son of the Rev.
- G.P.
- Rees of Melbourne, Australia and educated at Carey Baptist Grammar School, at Kew, Victoria, Australia.
- He then worked part-time as a laboratory assistant at Melbourne University whilst studying for a Chemistry degree, which he obtained in 1936.
- After further study for an M.Sc (awarded in 1938) he travelled to England to work at Imperial College.
- As war had broken out en route he found himself investigating potential war gases, for which he was awarded a Ph.D in 1941.After a few years of research at Philips Electrical Industries U.K., where he led a team studying problems associated with the manufacture of cathode ray tubes, he returned to Australia to take up a post at CSIR in Melbourne as leader of a new Section of Chemical Physics devoted to the application of physical techniques to chemical problems, including protein structure investigations, chemico-physical studies of the solid state, the determination of molecular structure and energetics, and the development of new and improved chemico-physical techniques.
- In 1958, having grown to a staff of 30 and equipped with X-ray diffraction equipment, a mass spectrometer, an ultra-violet and an infra-red spectrometer, the section became the Chemical Physics Division.He was elected a fellow of the Australian Chemical Institute in 1948 and awarded their Rennie (1945), Smith (1951) and Leighton (1970) Medals.
- He became a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1954 and was awarded CBE in 1978.He retired from CSIRO in 1978 and died in 1989.
- He had married Marion Mofflin and had 3 daughters.
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