Person
Veevers, John James (1930 - 2018)
FAA
- Born
- 13 October 1930
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 12 August 2018
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Geologist
Summary
John Veevers was a geologist widely respected for his outstanding contributions to the study and mapping of Australia's sedimentary basins and for his studies on global tectonic cycles that define the development of Pangaea and Gondwana over the last 1,000 million years. His varied research projects included Devonian brachiopods from Western Australia, mapping the Bowen Basin in Queensland, and deep sea drilling in the Indian Ocean. For 15 years Veevers was a geologist with the Bureau of Mineral Resources before becoming a lecturer at Macquarie University, He retired in 1998 as Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Among his landmark publications were his edited books Phanerozoic earth history of Australia (1984), and Billion-year earth history of Australia and neighbours in Gondwanaland (2000) and its accompanying Atlas (2001). He was a founding Member (and later Fellow) of the Geological Society of Australia and the inaugural recipient of the Society's S. W. Carey Medal. Veevers Crater in Western Australia was named in his honour.
Details
Chronology
- 1948 - 1951
- Career position - Cadet Geologist, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics
- 1952
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc(Hons)), University of Sydney
- 1952 - 1960
- Career position - Geologist, Bureau of Mineral Resources
- 1952 - 2018
- Career position - Founding Member (later Fellow), Geological Society of Australia
- 1954
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Sydney
- 1956
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Sydney
- 1956
- Education - Diploma in geology, Imperial College, London
- 1961 - 1967
- Career position - Senior Geologist, Bureau of Mineral Resources
- 1968
- Award - Stillwell Award, Geological Society of Australia
- 1968 - 1991
- Career position - Senior Lecturer (later Associate Professor), Macquarie University
- 1981 - 1983
- Career position - Member, National Committee for Solid-Earth Sciences, Australian Academy of Science
- 1987
- Award - Clarke Memorial Lecturer, Royal Society of New South Wales
- 1991 - 1998
- Career position - Professor (personal chair), Macquarie University
- 1992
- Award - S. W. Carey Medal, Geological Society of Australia
- 1995 - 2018
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 1998 - ?
- Career position - Emeritus Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University
- 2001
- Award - Centenary Medal or service to Australian society and science in earth history
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Veevers, J. J., Atlas of Billion-year earth history of Australia and neighbours in Gondwanaland (Sydney: Gemoc Press, 2001), 76 pp. Details
Edited Books
- Veevers, J. J. ed., Phanerozoic earth history of Australia (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), 418 pp. Details
- Veevers, J. J. ed., Billion-year earth history of Australia and neighbours in Gondwanaland (North Ryde, N.S.W.: GEMOC Press, 2000), 388 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Anon, 'Professor John Veevers FAA 1930 - 2018', Australian Academy of Science Newsletter, 119 (2018), 14. https://www.science.org.au/academy-newsletter/august-2018-119. Details
- Walter, Malcolm, 'John James Veevers (1930 - 2018)', The Australian Geologist (2018). Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6261892. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/69085790. Details
- 'Veevers, J J (19301013-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-460942. Details
Rosanne Walker and Helen Cohn
Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 4 May 2023