NOTED PHYSICIST

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 300, 15 September 1936, Page 8

NOTED PHYSICIST

, ... Professor Laby Visiting Wellington Professor of physics at Victoria University. College, Wellington, from 1909 to 1915, and at present external examiner in physics to the University of New Zealand, Professor T. H. Laby, F.R.S., Sc.D., of the chair of natural philosophy in the University of Melbourne, is at present visiting Wellington. In his position as Consulting physicist to the Department of Health, Commonwealth of Australia, he has been on a visit to France, England and the United States of America Inquiring into the use of X-rays and radlUm In the treatment of cancer. Professor Laby was educated at the University of Sydney and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was awarded an 1851 Science Research Scholarship, and won distinction for research work under Professor Sir Joseph Thomson. He was Joule student of the Royal Society, London, demonstrator of chemistry in the University of Sydney, 1901-1905, and after leaving Victoria College Went to tha University of Melbourne. He was a member of the University Council from 1927 to 1931, and in 1911 and 1928 of the physical section of the Australian Association and the New Zealand Association for the Advance Of Science, tie was an assessor in the Federal Arbitration Court in 1918, president of the Royal Society of Victoria in 1024, first president of the Australian physics conference, and is a member of the Radio Research Board of Australia. With Sir Douglas Mawson he published in 1904. the first results on radio-activity In Australia. They found radium In mineral from Pilbarra, Western Australia, and Carcoar, New South Wales. He has numerous scientific publications and also a book, “University Reform in New Zealand.” Professor Laby will leave Wellington to-day by the Awatea. A ©e®®©©®©®©®®®©®®®®©©®©©©®©