Raymond James Wood Le Fèvre DSc, FRACI, FAA, FRS (1 April 1905 - 26 August 1986) was professor of chemistry at the University of Sydney from 1946 until his retirement in 1970. He was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute The Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) is both the qualifying body in Australia for professional chemists and a learned society promoting the science and practice of chemistry in all its branches. The RACI hosts conferences, seminars and ...

in 1946, a Foundation

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in 1954, and a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

in 1959. The

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awarded him an honorary D.Sc. in 1985.Raymond James Wood Le Fèvre, DSc, FAA, FRS
Australian Academy of ScienceM.J. Aroney and A.D. Buckingham
Raymond James Wood Le Fèvre 1905-1986
originally published in Historical Records of Australian Science, vol.7, no.3, 1988.
BrightsparcsRaymond James Wood Le Fèvre
Australian Dictionary of Biography
eoas Le Fèvre was born in London, and studied chemistry at

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, University of London (B.Sc., 1925; M.Sc., 1927; Ph.D., 1929; D.Sc., 1935) where he was a lecturer (1928–38) and reader (1938–46). He married in 1931, his wife also being a chemistry researcher who became a D.Sc. in 1960. From 1941 to 1944 he spent World War II as an RAF officer in Malaya, Australia and New Guinea before returning to England. He and his family migrated to Sydney in 1946 where he took up an appointment as professor of chemistry at the University of Sydney.

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Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Fellows of the Royal Society 1905 births 1986 deaths British emigrants to Australia {{Australia-scientist-stub