Person
Worner, Hill Wesley (1917 - 2002)
AO FTSE HonFIEAust
- Born
- 1 May 1917
Kerang, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 7 March 2002
Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Metallurgist
Summary
Hill Worner, AO FTSE HonFIEAust, was Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Melbourne from 1956-1975 and Director of the Institute for Industrial Technology, CSIRO 1979-1981.
He achieved international renown for his research on titanium; by developing a new method for producing powdered titanium for use in the Australian radio valve industry; and was one of the first in the world to introduce courses in engineering materials.
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Chronology
- 1934
- Education - Diploma of Applied Chemistry, Bendigo School of Mines
- 1936
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
- 1938
- Education - Master of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
- 1939
- Career position - Metallurgist, Broken Hill Association of Smelters, Melbourne
- 1940
- Career position - Lecturer in metallurgy, University of Melbourne
- 1941 - 1942
- Career position - Research metallurgist, Lubricants and Bearings Section, CSIR
- 1943 - 1945
- Career position - Research metallurgist, Division of Industrial Chemistry, CSIR
- 1946 - 1953
- Career position - Research metallurgist, Physical Metallurgy Section, CSIR
- 1951
- Award - David Syme Research Prize (jointly), University of Melbourne
- 1953
- Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Melbourne
- 1954 - 1955
- Career position - Metallurgist, Mines Board Canada, Ottawa
- 1956 - 1975
- Career position - Professor of Metallurgy, University of Melbourne
- 1976 - 1978
- Career position - Member, Executive CSIRO
- 1978 - 1987
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)
- 1979 - 1981
- Career position - Director, Institute of Industrial Technology, CSIRO
- 1981
- Award - Kernot Memorial Medal, for distinguished engineering achievement in Australia. Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne
- 26 January 1981
- Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for public service in the field of Metallurgy and Industrial Technology.
- 1982
- Career position - Member, Executive CSIRO
- 1986
- Award - Honorary Fellow (HonFIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1987
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Awarded by AATS 1978]
- 2002
- Life event - Cremated, Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Victoria
Related entries
Sibling
Published resources
Journal Articles
- 'Prince Philip becomes HonFIEAust [Also elected Honorary Fellows: Peter Courtney Gration, Hill Wesley Worner, Ian McColl Stewart, Ronald John Yates]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 59 (October 31) (1986), 39. Details
- Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Worner Brothers', Uni News, 12 (17) (2003), 4. Details
Reports
- Institution of Engineers Australia, Annual Report 1986 [Sixty-seventh Annual Report] (1987), 24 pp. 'Awards and Honours - Honorary Fellows -Council elected Emeritus Prof H Worner, FIEAust, as Honorary Fellow', p.15. Details
Resources
- 'Worner, Hill Wesley (1917-2002)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475681. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Worner, Hill Wesley', 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/P001848p.htm. Details
See also
- 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
Gavan McCarthy [P004098]; Ken McInnes
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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