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Rayner, Jack Maxwell (1906 - 1982)

OBE

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Geophysicist

Born: 22 October 1906 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Died: 6 October 1982 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

Jack Maxwell 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.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1929 Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Sydney
1929 - 1930 Commonwealth Trainee Geophysicist on the Imperial Geophysical Experimental Survey
1930 - 1942 Geophysicist with the New South Wales Department of Mines
1942 - 1946 Assistant on the Mineral Resources Survey
1946 - 1952 Chief Geophysicist with the Commonwealth Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Section
1946 - 1952 Chief Geophysicist on the Mineral Resources Survey
1952 - 1969 Deputy Director (to 1958) then Director of the Commonwealth Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Section
1967 Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

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'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 ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 30 August 2005

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