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Dulhunty, John Allan (1911 - 1994)

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Geologist

Born: 1 April 1911 New South Wales, Australia. Died: 7 April 1994 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia.

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.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1938 Deas Thompson Scholarship for Mineralology received from the University of Sydney
1938 Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Sydney
1940 - 1944 Linnean Macleay Fellow at the University of Sydney
1945 - 1949 Senior Commonwealth Research Fellow at the University of Sydney
1947 President of the Royal Society of New South Wales
1951 - 1956 Senior Lecturer in Geology at the University of Sydney
1955 Acting Head of the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Sydney
1957 - 1973 Reader in Geology at the University of Sydney
1961 Acting Head of the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Sydney
1964 - 1965 President of the Geological Society
1967 Acting Head of the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Sydney

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Webby, B. D., 'John A. Dulhunty – an Appreciation', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. 119, 1986, pp. 1-2, http://nsw.royalsoc.org.au/journal/webby.html. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: Annette Alafaci
Created: 22 May 2006

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