Robert Street
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Robert Street AO FAA (16 December 1920 – 4 July 2013) was a British academic and academic administrator.
Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire and educated at Hanley High School, he was offered a scholarship to New College, Oxford in 1939, but upon failing to meet the university's Latin requirement he instead took up a place at King's College London where he studied physics.[1] He later completed his PhD at University College, Nottingham. He worked as a senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield from 1954 to 1960 and as Foundation Professor of Physics at Monash University from 1960 to 1974. He later served as vice-chancellor of the University of Western Australia from 1978 to 1986.[2] He also served as president of the Australian Institute of Physics.[3]
Street was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1985 "For Service to Learning",[4] was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1973[3] and was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 "For service to Australian society and science in physics".[5]
References[]
- ^ "Robert Street, 1920-2013". 22 August 2013.
- ^ 'STREET, Prof. Robert', Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2013
- ^ a b Street, Robert (1920 - 2013), www.eoas.info
- ^ "Officer of the Order of Australia".
- ^ "Centenary Medal".
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