Person
Worner, Howard Knox (1913 - 2006)
CBE FAA FTSE HonFIEAust
- Born
- 3 August 1913
Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 17 November 2006
Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Metallurgist
Summary
Howard Worner was Professor of Metallurgy, University of Melbourne 1946-1955 and then worked for the mining companies, CRA Ltd and BHP Ltd. He published widely in the field of metallurgy and developed the "WORCRA" continuous smelting and refining process.
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Chronology
- 1933
- Education - Diploma, Bendigo School of Mines
- 1933
- Award - Gold medal, Bendigo Schoool of Mines
- 1933
- Award - University Senior Scholarship, Education Department of Victoria
- 1934
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
- 1936
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne
- 1936 - 1938
- Career position - Lecturer in metallography, University of Melbourne
- 1939 - 1946
- Career position - Research fellow, Dental Materials Research Laboratory, Melbourne
- 1940
- Award - David Syme Research Prize (jointly), University of Melbourne
- 1942
- Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Melbourne
- 1946 - 1955
- Career position - Professor of Metallurgy, University of Melbourne
- 1956 - c. 1964
- Career position - Director of research at Broken Hill Pty Ltd
- 1964
- Award - Corrosion Medal (called the Silver Medal), Australasian Corrosion Association
- 1964 - 1975
- Career position - Director of New Process Development at CRA Ltd
- 1973
- Award - Kernot Memorial Medal, for distinguished engineering achievement in Australia. Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne
- 1973
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 1974 - 1977
- Career position - Member of Council, National Museum of Victoria
- 1975
- Life event - Retired
- 1975 - 1987
- Award - Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)
- 1977
- Award - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) - for Science and technology of energy [Award ID: 1064895]
- 1979
- Career position - Member, Victorian Brown Coal Council
- 1983
- Award - Doctor of Engineering (DEng), honoris causa, University of Melbourne
- 1983
- Award - Docking Medal, International Association for Dental Research
- 1986
- Award - Johnson Medal, Mineralogical Society of South Australia
- 1987
- Award - Honorary Fellow (HonFIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1987
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Foundation Fellow AATS 1975]
- 1987 - 1989
- Career position - Director, Microwave Applications Research Centre, University of Wollongong
- 1994
- Award - Ian Wark Medal
- 1996
- Award - Doctor of Science (DSc), honoris causa, University of Newcastle
- 2001
- Award - Centenary Medal - for service to Australian society and science in metallurgy and materials engineering [Award ID: 1126697]
- 2002
- Award - Benjamin F. Fairless Award, Association for Iron and Steel Technology
Related entries
Sibling
Archival resources
Broken Hill Proprietary Co Ltd
- Howard Knox Worner - Records, 1955 - 1962; Broken Hill Proprietary Co Ltd. Details
Private hands (Worner, H.K.)
- Howard Knox Worner - Records, 1930 - 1988; Private hands (Worner, H.K.). Details
Published resources
Edited Books
- Worner, Howard Knox; Mitchell, Robert W.; and Segnit, Ralph E. eds, Minerals of Broken Hill (Melbourne: Australian Mining and Smelting, 1982), 259 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- 'Nine new Honorary Fellows [Em.Prof. David John Francis Allen-Williams; Prof. Lance Aubrey Endersbee; Kenneth John Kelsall; Steven Kenneth Langley; James Bruce Kirkwood; Em.Prof. Sydney Arthur Prentice; Harold C. Richards; Sir Sydney Schubert; Prof. Howard Knox Worner]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 60 (June 24) (1988), 43-44. 'Nine new Honorary Fellows' - Prof Howard Knox Worner. Details
- 'Obituaries', Australian Academy of Science Newsletter, 66 (August-December) (2006), 10-11. Details
- Carr, Paul F.; and Williamson, Penny, 'The Howard Worner collection', Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 7 (1) (2001), 19-26. Details
- Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Worner Brothers', Uni News, 12 (17) (2003), 4. Details
- Tegart, W. J. Mcg.; and Hickman, B. S., 'Howard Knox Worner 1913-2006', Historical Records of Australian Science, 25 (2) (2014), 337-53, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR14021. Details
Newspaper Articles
- Heggen, Colin, 'Mallee farm boy's research advanced mining', The Age (2007). Details
Reports
- Institution of Engineers Australia, Annual Report 1987 [Sixty-eighth Annual Report] (1988), 28 pp. 'Awards and Honours - Honorary Fellows - Council elected Dr Howard Worner, CBE FIEAust, as Honorary Fellow', p.19. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q66739133. Details
- 'Worner, Howard K (1913-2006)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-471063. Details
- 'Awarded honorary DEng, 1983', Honorary degree holders, University of Melbourne, 2023, https://about.unimelb.edu.au/notable-alumni-staff/honorary-degree-holders. Details
- 'Awarded honorary DSc, 1996', Honorary degrees, University of Newcastle, 2023, https://www.newcastle.edu.au/engage/alumni/stories/honorary-degrees. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Worner, Howard Knox', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000917p.htm. Details
- Salt, David, 'Interview with Professor Howard Worner', in Interviews with Australian scientists, Australian Academy of Science, 2005, http://science.org.au/scientists/interviews/w/hw.html. Details
See also
- 'Dr Keith Thomas Henry Farrer OBE MA DSc FTSE - Biographical Note', Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, http://www.atse.org.au/index.php?sectionid=648. Details
- Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne (Melbourne: Department of History, University of Melbourne, 2003), 168 pp. Details
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Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 December 2023
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