Francis Patrick John Dwyer FAA (3 December 1910 – 22 June 1962) was Professor of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra.

[2][3][4][5][6] Dwyer was born at Raymond Terrace, New South Wales and attended Marist Brothers College in Maitland.

[2] Following his university studies Dwyer was appointed to the Inorganic Chemistry Department of the Sydney Technical College, where he held the post of Head Lecturer until 1946.

However a number of Australia's senior scientists, realising the loss to Australia of a scientist of Dwyer's calibre, succeeded in establishing for him a Visiting Reader in charge of a Unit of Biological Inorganic Chemistry in the John Curtin School of Medical Research in Canberra.

[2] In recognition of his outstanding work, Professor Frank Dwyer attained the following awards and achievements On 12 January 1939 he married Lola, daughter of Arthur Carrington Bosworth and his wife Florence of Sydney.

A portrait of him hangs in the Dwyer Lecture Theatre in the School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales.