Robert Street

Robert Street AO FAA (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.[3]

Street was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1985 "For Service to Learning",[4] was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1973[3] and was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 "For service to Australian society and science in physics".[5]