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Alan Walsh (physicist) was born on 19 December, 1916 in Hoddlesden, England, is a British-Australian physicist. Discover Alan Walsh (physicist)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

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Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 19 December 1916
Birthday 19 December
Birthplace Hoddlesden, England
Date of death 3 August, 1998
Died Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Nationality Australia

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1916

Sir Alan Walsh FAA FRS (19 December 1916 – 3 August 1998) was a British-Australian physicist, originator and developer of a method of chemical analysis called atomic absorption spectroscopy.

Walsh was born on 19 December 1916 and brought up in Hoddlesden, a small village about twenty miles from Manchester.

He was the eldest son of Thomas Haworth Walsh, cotton mill manager, and Betsy Alice (née Robinson).

1933

From the age of ten Walsh attended the local grammar school in the nearby town of Darwen, where he passed the Northern Universities Matriculation examination in 1933 and the Higher School Certificate examination in 1935.

He then went to the University of Manchester to read physics.

1938

On graduation in 1938 he was also awarded a research scholarship, which he took up in the physics department, where he was particularly influenced by Henry Lipson’s suggestion that he work on the structure of β-carotene.

Walsh spent on year at Manchester working on this, before moving to the physics section of the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association (BNF) in London, where he continued the theoretical work on the analysis.

1944

He was awarded an MSc (Tech) in 1944.

War began on the day Walsh joined BNF, and so he set the task of determining which metals were being used in enemy bombers that had been shot down, information that could help establish how the German war effort was advancing.

He devised several methods for the rapid and accurate spectrographic analysis of alloys based on aluminium, copper or zinc.

While developing the method he discovered that it could not always be transferred uniformly from one laboratory to another, so he set about devising a General Purpose Source Unit.

This generated a stable and reproducible source of discharge, essential in spectrographic emission work.

He then assisted Hilger & Watts Ltd to develop a commercial version.

1945

In 1945 Alan applied for the post of Research Officer for Spectroscopic Investigations at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Melbourne.

1946

After a long delay, he was offered the job in March 1946, but he first had to spend 3–4 months in Gordon Sutherland’s lab in Cambridge, to gain experience in the new field of infrared molecular spectroscopy.

This led to a paper on the structure of phthiocerane, the hydrocarbon derived from phthiocerol, found in tubercle bacilli.

1947

Walsh arrived at CSIR, via laboratory visits in the USA, in April 1947.

He set about installing the first operating infrared spectrometer in Australia, a Perkin-Elmer Model 12B.

He soon realised that its resolution was insufficient for any but the lightest molecules, so he devised and patented a double-pass system, which was licensed to Perkin-Elmer.

Walsh is probably best known for his development of atomic absorption spectroscopy as an analytical tool.

This is a complex story, recounted in detail by Hannaford.

1958

1958 Fellow, Australian Academy of Science

1966

1966 Britannica Australia Award

1969

1969 Talanta Gold Medal

1969 Royal Society of Victoria Research Medal

1969 Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

1972

1972 Maurice Hasler Award in Spectroscopy, Society for Applied Spectroscopy

1975

1975 Kronland Medal, Czechoslavak Spectroscopic Society

1975 James Cook Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales

1976

In late 1976 Walsh received a telex from the Royal Society telling him that he had been awarded a Royal Medal in recognition of “your distinguished contributions to emission and infrared spectroscopy and your origination of the atomic absorption method of quantitative analysis”.

1976 Torbern Bergman Medal, Swedish Chemical Society

1976 Royal Medal, Royal Society

1977

He retired from CSIRO on 5 January 1977, and in June was created a Knight Bachelor.

1977 Knight Bachelor

1978

1978 John Scott Award, City of Philadelphia, USA

1980

1980 Matthew Flinders Lecture and Medal, Australian Academy of Science

1982

In 1982 he was invited back to CSIRO as a senior research fellow.

1982 Robert Boyle Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry (Inaugural Award)

1982 K.L. Sutherland Memorial Medal, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (Inaugural Award)

1991

1991 Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale Award for Major Scientific Contributions to Analytical Spectroscopy (Inaugural Award)