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Shaw, Frederick Stanley (1911 - 1982)

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aeronautical engineer and Civil engineer
Born: 31 October 1911  Albany, Western Australia, Australia.  Died: 4 November 1982  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Frederick Stanley Shaw worked at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne from 1942. During his eighteen year tenure there he had many secondments to Institutes in the USA. Shaw finally left in 1960 to take up an appointment as Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of New South Wales.

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1938Bachelor of Engineering (BE) completed at the University of Western Australia
1942 - 1960Research Officer at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne
1946 - 1948Research Associate in Applied Mathematics at Brown University in Rhode Island, USA
1947Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Oxford, UK
1951 - 1953Visiting Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Brooklyn Polytechnical Institute in New York
1953 - 1960Superintendent of Structures Division at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories
1960 - 1971Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of New South Wales

 
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