Leslie H. Martin

Sir Leslie Martin
Born	(1900-12-21)21 December 1900 Footscray, Victoria
Died	1 February 1983(1983-02-01) (aged 82) Camberwell, Victoria
Citizenship	Australian
Alma mater	University of Melbourne University of Cambridge
Awards	Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1954) Fellow of the Royal Society (1957) Knight Bachelor (1957)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Melbourne Australian Universities Commission University of New South Wales
Doctoral advisor	Ernest Rutherford
Other academic advisors	T. H. Laby

Sir Leslie Harold Martin, CBE, FAA, FRS (21 December 1900 – 1 February 1983) was an Australian physicist. He was one of the 24 Founding Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science and had a significant influence on the structure of higher education in Australia as chairman of the Australian Universities Commission from 1959 until 1966. He was Professor of Physics at the University of Melbourne from 1945 to 1959, and Dean of the Faculty of Military Studies and Professor of Physics at the University of New South Wales at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in Canberra from 1967 to 1970. He was the Defence Scientific Adviser and chairman of the Defence Research and Development Policy Committee from 1948 to 1968, and a member of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission from 1958 to 1968. In this role he was an official observer at several British nuclear weapons tests in Australia.