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Phillips, Leslie William (1893 - 1949)

Chemist

Born: 15 April 1893 Tungamah, Victoria, Australia. Died: 10 May 1949 Mount Lawley, Western Australia, Australia.

Leslie William Phillips was Superintendent of Technical Education in Western Australia from 1941 until ill health forced him to retire in 1948. After holding teaching positions in his home State of Victoria, Phillips took up a post as Assistant Lecturer in Chemistry at Perth Technical School (1920). There he received a grant from the Australian Science and Industrial Endowment Fund to investigate toxic principles in common poison plants. Nine years later he was appointed Assistant Superintendent of Technical Education.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1915 - 1918 War service with the Australian Imperial Force in the medical units in England and with the 2^nd Field Ambulance in France (1918)
1919 Teacher at Hamilton High School then Footscray Technical School in Victoria
1919 Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1920 Diploma in Education (DipEd) completed at the University of Melbourne
1920 - c. 1929 Assistant Lecturer in Chemistry at Perth Technical School
1923 Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1929 - 1940 Assistant Superintendent of Technical Education in Western Australia
1931 - 1932 President of the Royal Society of Western Australia
1935 Carnegie Foundation Fellow at the Institute of Education, University of London
1938 Master of Education completed at the University of Melbourne
1941 - 1948 Superintendent of Technical Education in Western Australia
1943 President of the (Royal) Australian Chemical Institute

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Prepared by: Annette Alafaci
Created: 21 September 2006

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Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project, 1999-2006 by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
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