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Murray, Noel William (1928 - 2001)
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Engineer
Born: 5 November 1928  Brighton, South Australia, Australia.  Died: 2 January 2001.
Noel William Murray was professor of structural engineering at Monash University, Victoria, for almost forty years. He was a member of the coroner's committee investigating the collapse of Melbourne's West Gate Bridge in 1970 and later tested full scale sections of the bridge and advised on aspects of its redesign.
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1948Bachelor of Engineering (BE) completed at the University of Adelaide
1949 - 1950Engineer for the Irrigation and Water Supply Commission, Queensland
1952 - 1957Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Manchester University, UK
1957 - 1959Senior Research Assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Sheffield University, UK
1959 - 1961Senior Stress Analyst at GEC-Simon Carves Atomic Energy Division in the UK
1961 - 1964Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University, Victoria
1964 - 1994Professor of Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University, Victoria
1990Faculty Medallion received from the Slovak University in Bratislava, Slovakia
1994 - 2001Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering at Monash University, Victoria

 
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Modified: 13 December 2006
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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