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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2006-05-22 human Annette Alafaci updated 2026-01-23 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004695b.htm person Dulhunty John Allan AACR2 1 April 1911 7 April 1994 Place of Birth New South Wales, Australia Place of Death Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia Geologist John Allan Dulhunty was Reader in Geology at the University of Sydney from 1957 until his retirement in 1973. After this, he and his wife Roma carried out a series of expeditions to Lake Eyre which yielded many important research papers on the sedimentological and geomporphical changes of the lake. Roma also wrote three books about there expeditions using photographs taken by John. The Rare Book and Special Collections Library of the University of Sydney has an archives collection of Roma's (and John's?) work. 1938 1938 Award - Deas Thompson Scholarship for Mineralology, University of Sydney 1938 1938 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Sydney 1940 1944 Career position - Linnean Macleay Fellow, University of Sydney 1945 1949 Career position - Senior Commonwealth Research Fellow, University of Sydney 1947 1947 Career position - President, Royal Society of New South Wales 1951 1956 Career position - Senior Lecturer in Geology, University of Sydney 1955 1955 Career position - Acting Head of the Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Sydney 1957 1973 Career position - Reader in Geology, University of Sydney 1961 1961 Career position - Acting Head of the Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Sydney 1964 1965 Career position - President, Geological Society 1967 1967 Career position - Acting Head of the Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Sydney 1970 1970 Award - Royal Society of New South Wales Medal Royal Society of New South Wales Medal (1884 - )

Awarded the Medal 1970

 The University of Sydney (1850 - )

Reader in Geology 1957 - 1973

 Royal Society of New South Wales (1866 - )

President 1947

 Linnean Macleay Fellowship (1905 - )

Awarded the Fellowship (geology) 1940 - 1944

 Dulhunty, J A (1911-1994)

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 'Dulhunty, John Allan', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Dulhunty, John Allan Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Biographical Memoirs - John Allan Dulhunty 1911-1994 D.F.B Biographical Memoirs - John Allan Dulhunty 1911-1994 1994 Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales 127 161-167 Dulhunty, Roma (1999-1991) Rare Book and Special Collections Library, University of Sydney Dulhunty, Roma (1999-1991) Roma Dulhunty was an Australian author and explorer. With her husband, John Dulhunty, a geologist at the University of Sydney, she published a number of books on the Lake Eyre region.