Person
Pring, Allan
- Occupation
- Mineralogist
Summary
Allan Pring became Curator of Minerals at the South Australian Museum after a brief period at the Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University. His research interests centre on the formation of minerals by hydrothermal processes, the development of neutron and x-ray diffraction techniques to study mineral formation processes at high temperature and pressure hydrothermal conditions, and biomineralisation processes and structure as it relates to the colour of shells and pearls. He has been active in a number of mineralogical societies.
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Chronology
- 1979
- Education - BSc, Monash University
- 1983
- Education - PhD, University of Cambridge
- 1984 - 2014
- Career position - Curator of Minerals, South Australian Museum
- 1993
- Career position - Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, for study in Hamburg and Cambridge
- 1999 - 2000
- Career position - Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
- 2000
- Award - J. E. Johnson Medal, Mineralogical Society of South Australia
- 2003
- Career position - Australian delegate, International Mineralogical Association Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names
- 2004
- Award - John Sanders Medal, Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society
- 2005
- Award - Sir Joseph Verco Medal, Royal Society of South Australia
- 2006
- Award - ScD, University of Cambridge
- 2006 - 2008
- Career position - President, Royal Society of South Australia
- 2014 -
- Career position - Distinguished Professor in Chemical Mineralogy, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Flinders University
- 2014 -
- Career position - Honorary Research Associate in Mineralogy, South Australian Museum
- 2014 -
- Career position - Research Professor, Chemistry and Physics of Materials, University of Adelaide
Related entries
Published resources
Book Sections
- Pring, Allan, 'Tilley, Cecil Edgar (1894-1973), Petrologist and Mineralogist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds, vol. 16 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), pp. 396-397. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160479b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Anon, 'Changing of the guard in mineralogy at the South Australian Museum', Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 17 (2) (2015), 58-60. Details
- Pring, A., 'The mineral collections of the South Australian Museum', Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 6 (2000), 59-70. Details
- Pring, Allan, and Brugger, Joël, 'Mawson and the Radium and Uranium Mineralisation at Mount Painter, Northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia', Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Bulletin, 6 (2013), 86-9. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q13671457. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/92463602. Details
- 'Pring, Allan (1956-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-520688. Details
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Last modified: 10 August 2016