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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created human Helen Cohn updated 2025-10-14 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005584b.htm person Wilkinson John Frederick George AACR2 10 October 1927 8 October 2014 Place of Birth Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia Place of Death Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Geologist John Wilkinson was an internationally distinguished classical igneous petrologist and master of the polarising microscope. Having completed his PhD at Cambridge he was appointed to the University of New England where he spent more than 30 years. Here he initiated a career-long program of petrological research on igneous rocks, mainly from north-eastern New South Wales, covering granites, serpentines and especially Tertiary basaltic lavas and their contained mafic and ultramafic inclusions. His petrological and geomechanical investigations of pyroxenite and related xenoliths revealed differentiation processes in melt bodies at mantle depths that potentially created great diversity in derivative magma compositions. The mineral Wilkinsonite was named in his honour in 1990. 1949 1949 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Queensland 1950 1950 Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Queensland 1951 1951 Career position - Lecturer, Geology Department, University of New England 1954 1954 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Cambridge University 1967 1985 Career position - Editor, Journal of Petrology 1972 1972 Award - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Queensland 1972 1976 Career position - Member, Australian Research Grants Committee 1972 1982 Career position - Head of Department of Geology, University of New England 1987 1987 Life event - Retired 1988 1988 Career position - Emeritus Professor, University of New England The University of New England (1954 - )

Head, Department of Geology 1972 - 1982

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 'Wilkinson, John Frederick George', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Wilkinson, John Frederick George Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: John Frederick George Wilkinson 10 October 1927 - 8 October 2014 Binns, Ray John Frederick George Wilkinson 10 October 1927 - 8 October 2014 2015 TAG: Geological Society of Australia Newsletter 174 40-1