Robert Street

Robert Street AO (born 16 December 1920 – 4 July 2013) was a British academic and academic administrator.

Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire and educated at Hanley High School, he was offered a scholarship to New College, Oxford in 1939, but upon failing to meet the university's Latin requirement he instead took up a place at King's College London where he studied Physics.^[1] He later completed his PhD at University College, Nottingham. He worked as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield from 1954 to 1960 and as Foundation Professor of Physics at Monash University from 1960 to 1974. He later served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Australia from 1978 to 1986.^[2] He also served as President of the Australian Institute of Physics.

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