Person
Taylor, Geoffrey Hamlet (1924 - 2017)
FTSE
- Born
- 7 July 1924
- Died
- 30 July 2017
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - Occupation
- Geologist
Summary
Geoffrey Taylor was noted as a pioneer of coal petrology in Australia and internationally respected for work in coal petrology and its industrial applications. He was an innovative researcher into the petrographic structure of coals, cokes and carbons. His discoveries had a lasting impact on the development of techniques in manufacturing coals and in the conversion of coals to liquid fuels. In his research he published on the prediction of metallurgical coke properties, the classification of vitrinites, the origin of sclerotinite and micrinite, and cold-climate formation of Gondwana inertinite. After a distinguished career at CSIRO, Taylor became Director of the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies Professor at the Australian National University, before returning to CSIRO as a member of the Executive.
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Chronology
- 1942 - 1946
- Career position - Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Australian Naval Reserve
- 1950 - 1953
- Career position - Assistant Geologist, Geological Survey of South Australia
- 1955 - 1970
- Career position - Research Scientist, CSIRO
- 1971 - 1977
- Career position - Assistant Chief of the Division of Mineralogy, CSIRO
- 1977 - 1980
- Career position - Officer in charge of the Fuel Geosciences Unit, CSIRO
- 1979 - 1987
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)
- 1980 - 1982
- Career position - Director of the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University
- 1982 -
- Career position - Emeritus Professor, Australian National University
- 1982 - 1986
- Career position - Member of the CSIRO Executive
- 1986
- Award - Baragwanath Award, Australian Institute of Energy
- 1986 - 1998
- Career position - Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
- 1987
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Awarded by AATS 1979]
- 1995
- Award - George Skakel Memorial Award, American Carbon Society
- 1997
- Award - Reinhardt Thiessen Medal, International Committee for Coal and Organic Petrology (ICCP)
- 2001
- Award - Centenary Medal - for service to Australian society in the study of fossil fuels and high carbon materials
- 2001
- Award - John Castaño Honorary Membership Award, Society for Organic Petrology
Related entries
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Anon, 'Geoffrey Taylor was a geologist and a children's author', ATSE focus, 205 (2018), 50, https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-603686632. Details
- Davis, Alan; and Sherwood, Neil, 'Memorial for Geoffrey H. Taylor (1924 - 2017)', International Journal of Coal Geology, 188 (2018), 37. Details
Resources
- Davis, Allan, In memoriam Geoffrey H. Taylor 1924 - 2017, Society of Organic Petrology, 2017, https://www.tsop.org/memoriam/Taylor_memoriam.html. Details
- 'Taylor, Geoffrey H (1924-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-587271. Details
Ailie Smith and Helen Cohn
Created: 12 March 2008, Last modified: 22 November 2019