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.

Details

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

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

Resource Sections

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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