Biographical entry Rayner, Jack Maxwell (1906 - 1982)

Summary

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.

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Events

1929

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Sydney

1929 - 1930

Career position - Commonwealth Trainee Geophysicist on the Imperial Geophysical Experimental Survey

1930 - 1942

Career position - Geophysicist with the New South Wales Department of Mines

1942 - 1946

Career position - Assistant on the Mineral Resources Survey

1946 - 1952

Career position - Chief Geophysicist with the Commonwealth Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Section

1946 - 1952

Career position - Chief Geophysicist on the Mineral Resources Survey

1952 - 1969

Career position - Deputy Director (to 1958) then Director of the Commonwealth Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Section

1967

Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Published resources

Journal Articles

• Rayner, J. M. And Wark, I. W., 'Harold George Raggatt', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, vol. 2, no. 3, 1972, pp. 62-75. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9720230062.htm. Details

Online Resources

• '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
• National Library of Australia, 'Rayner, J M', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-549155. Details