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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2000-08-24 human Joanne Evans; Ken McInnes updated 2025-10-07 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003103b.htm person Chinner John Harding FIFA AACR2 9 January 1915 14 November 2001 Place of Birth Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Place of Death Victoria, Australia Forest scientist University Administrator John Chinner was Reader-in-Charge of Forestry, University of Melbourne. President of the Royal Society of Victoria 1966-1967.

Elected Rhodes Scholar for Victoria, 1939.

John Chinner Medal donated by The Institute of Foresters of Australia for the student with the most outstanding field studies in the Bachelor of Forest Science course at the University of Melbourne.

1939 1939 Award - Victorian Rhodes Scholar (deferred until 1946) 1939 1945 Military service - Served with the A.I.F. 1949? 1956 Career position - Lecturer in Forestry, University of Melbourne 1953 1955 Career position - Chairman, Victorian Division, Institute of Foresters of Australia 1956 1980 Career position - Reader in Forestry, University of Melbourne 1963 1964 Career position - Bullard Research Fellow in Forestry and Special Auditor in the Forest School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 1966 1967 Career position - President, Royal Society of Victoria 1973 2001 Award - Fellow, Institute of Foresters of Australia (FIFA) 1979 1980 Career position - Dean, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Melbourne 1980 1980 Life event - Retired 1982 1982 Award - N. W. Jolly Medal, Institute of Foresters of Australia 1994 1994 Award - Doctor of Forest Science (DForSc), honoris causa, University of Melbourne Grose, Ronald Jeffrey (1929? - 2007)

John Chinner and Ron Grose were colleagues at the University of Melbourne

 Institute of Foresters of Australia (1935 - )

Chairman, Victorian Branch 1953 - 1955; Fellow 1973 - 2001

 Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, The University of Melbourne (1973 - 1995)

Dean 1979 - 1980

 The University of Melbourne (1853 - )

Reader in Forestry 1956 - 1980

 Royal Society of Victoria (1859 - )

President 1966 - 1967

 N. W. Jolly Medal, Institute of Foresters of Australia (1959 - )

Awarded the Medal 1982

 Chinner, John Harding (19150109-20011113)

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