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Dec 21, 1900 Footscray, Victoria, Australia Died on 01 Feb 1983 (aged 82)
Australian physicist
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About Leslie H. Martin
- Sir Leslie Harold Martin, (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.
