Leslie H. Martin
| Sir Leslie Martin | |
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| Born |
21 December 1900 Footscray, Victoria |
| Died | 1 February 1983 (aged 82) Camberwell, Victoria |
| Citizenship | Australian |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions |
University of Melbourne Australian Universities Commission University of New South Wales |
| Alma mater |
University of Melbourne University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Ernest Rutherford |
| Other academic advisors | T. H. Laby |
| Notable awards |
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1954) Fellow of the Royal Society (1957) Knight Bachelor (1957) |
Sir Leslie Harold Martin, CBE, FAA, FRS (21 December 1900 – 1 February 1983) was an Australian physicist. He was one of the 24 Founding Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science and had a significant influence on the structure of higher education in Australia as chairman of the Australian Universities Commission from 1959 until 1966. He was Professor of Physics at the University of Melbourne from 1945 to 1959, and Dean of the Faculty of Military Studies and Professor of Physics at the University of New South Wales at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in Canberra from 1967 to 1970. He was the Defence Scientific Adviser and chairman of the Defence Research and Development Policy Committee from 1948 to 1968, and a member of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission from 1958 to 1968. In this role he was an official observer at several British nuclear weapons tests in Australia.
Leslie Harold Martin was born in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray on 21 December 1900, to Henry Richard Martin, a railway worker, and his wife Esther (Ettie) Emily, née Tutty. He attended Flemington State School and won a Junior State Scholarship to Melbourne High School for his final years of secondary schooling in 1917 and 1918. His mathematics teacher, Miss Julia Flynn, encouraged him, and he won a Victorian Education Department Senior Government Scholarship in 1918.
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