Person
Chinner, John Harding (1915 - 2001)
FIFA
Chinner, John H. Portrait
Details
- Born
- 9 January 1915
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 14 November 2001
Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Forest scientist and University Administrator
Summary
John Chinner was Reader-in-Charge of Forestry, University of Melbourne. President of the Royal Society of Victoria 1966-1967.
Details
Elected Rhodes Scholar for Victoria, 1939.
John Chinner Medal donated by The Institute of Foresters of Australia for the student with the most outstanding field studies in the Bachelor of Forest Science course at the University of Melbourne.
Chronology
- 1939
- Award - Victorian Rhodes Scholar (deferred until 1946)
- 1939 - 1945
- Military service - Served with the A.I.F.
- 1949? - 1956
- Career position - Lecturer in Forestry, University of Melbourne
- 1953 - 1955
- Career position - Chairman, Victorian Division, Institute of Foresters of Australia
- 1956 - 1980
- Career position - Reader in Forestry, University of Melbourne
- 1963 - 1964
- Career position - Bullard Research Fellow in Forestry and Special Auditor in the Forest School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- 1966 - 1967
- Career position - President, Royal Society of Victoria
- 1973 - 2001
- Award - Fellow, Institute of Foresters of Australia (FIFA)
- 1979 - 1980
- Career position - Dean, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Melbourne
- 1980
- Life event - Retired
- 1982
- Award - N. W. Jolly Medal, Institute of Foresters of Australia
- 1994
- Award - Doctor of Forest Science (DForSc), honoris causa, University of Melbourne
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Published resources
Journal Articles
- Ferguson, Ian, 'John Harding Chinner, FIFA', Australian Forestry, 65 (1) (2002), 68-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/00049158.2002.10674854. Details
Resources
- CA 2002, 2 Echelon, Army Headquarters; CA 46, Department of Defence [III], Central Office, 'NAA: B883, VX46337', B883 Second Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947, National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=6137164. Details
- 'Chinner, John Harding (19150109-20011113)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476883. Details
- 'Awarded honorary DForSc, 1994', Honorary degree holders, University of Melbourne, 2023, https://about.unimelb.edu.au/notable-alumni-staff/honorary-degree-holders. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Chinner, John Harding (1915 - 2001)', in People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, Canberra, 2024. https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/chinner-john-harding-18270. Details
Digital resources
Joanne Evans; Ken McInnes
Created: 24 August 2000, Last modified: 6 June 2024
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