Alan Kenneth Head AO, FAA, FRS (10 August 1925 – 9 January 2010) was an Australian

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, and Chief of the Division of Chemical Physics, at

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from 1981 to 2010. Head earned a

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and

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from the

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from the

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, and

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from the

. He was made an

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in the 1992 Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of his "service to science through research into the structure of solids and its application to industry".

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*https://web.archive.org/web/20120426072417/http://www.cmst.csiro.au/LIE/LIE.htm *http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/anm/seminars/autumn96.html 1925 births 2010 deaths Australian physicists Fellows of the Royal Society Officers of the Order of Australia Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science University of Melbourne alumni Alumni of the University of Bristol {{Australia-scientist-stub