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Martin, Raymond Leslie (1926 - )

AO, FAA, FTSE, FRSC, FRACI

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Chemist

Born: 3 February 1926 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Raymond Leslie Martin is an expert in the field of inorganic chemistry. He was appointed Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University in 1992 and has lectured and worked at Monash University, the University of Melbourne, and the University of New South Wales. Martin has chaired and headed many organisations and committees during his prestigious career and was Director of Circadian Technologies Ltd. from 1986. He is a member or Fellow of many of Australia's top scientific bodies and was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) in 1987 for his services.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1949 - 1951 1851 Exhibition Scholar
1951 - 1954 Research Fellow at the Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge, UK
1954 - 1959 Senior Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of New South Wales
1962 - 1977 Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Unviersity of Melbourne
1968 H.G. Smith Memorial Medal received from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute
1969 Preseident of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute
1971 Dean of the Faculty of Science at the Unviersity of Melbourne
1977 - Emeritus Professor at the Australian National Unviersity (ANU), Canberra
1977 - 1987 Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Chemistry at ANU
1978 Inorganic Chemistry Medal received from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute
1979 - Fellow of Queen's College at the University of Melbourne
1986 - Director of Circadian Technologies Ltd.
1987 Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
1987 - 1991 Professor of Chemistry at Monash University, Victoria
1988 - 1992 Chair of the Australian Science and Technology Council
1989 - 1992 Member of the Prime Minister's Science Council

Structure based on ISAAR(CPF) - click here for an explanation of the fields.

Prepared by: Rosanne Walker
Created: 25 May 2001
Modified: 21 July 2005

Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project, 1999-2006 by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
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