Person
Rayner, Jack Maxwell (1906 - 1982)
OBE
- Born
- 22 October 1906
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 6 October 1982
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - Occupation
- Geophysicist
Summary
Jack Rayner was one of Australia's top geophysicists. He was Deputy Director (1952-1958) then Director (1958-1969) of the Geology and Geophysics Section of the Commonwealth Bureau of Mineral Resources and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1967.
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Chronology
- 1929
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Sydney
- 1929 - 1930
- Career position - Commonwealth Trainee Geophysicist on the Imperial Geophysical Experimental Survey
- 1930 - 1942
- Career position - Geophysicist with the New South Wales Department of Mines
- 1942 - 1946
- Career position - Assistant on the Mineral Resources Survey
- 1946 - 1952
- Career position - Chief Geophysicist with the Commonwealth Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Section
- 1946 - 1952
- Career position - Chief Geophysicist on the Mineral Resources Survey
- 1952 - 1969
- Career position - Deputy Director (to 1958) then Director of the Commonwealth Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Section
- 1967
- Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Published resources
Book Sections
- McCracken, Ken, 'Rayner, Jack Maxwell (1906-1982), Geophysicist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 18: 1981 - 1990 L-Z, Melanie Nolan, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2012), p. 330. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rayner-jack-maxwell-15858. Details
Journal Articles
- Rayner, J. M.; and Wark, I. W., 'Harold George Raggatt', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 2 (3) (1972), 62-75. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9720230062.htm. Details
- Rayner, John, 'Jack Rayner and the Imperial Geophysical Experimental Survey', Preview: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 126 (2007), 39-42, 44 . Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21539295. Details
- 'Rayner, J M (19061022-19821006)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-549155. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Rayner, Jack Maxwell', 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/P001789p.htm. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 1 March 2018
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