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Authorised form of nameTurner; John Stewart (1930 - 2022)
Dates1930 - 2022
NationalityAustralian
Place of birthSydney, Australia
Date of birth11/01/1930
Date of death03/07/2022
OccupationPhysicist
Research fieldPhysics
ActivityEducation:
North Sydney Boys High School; University of Sydney, University of Cambridge. MSc (Sydney); PhD (Cambridge)
Career:
Resident Officer, Cloud Physics Group, CSIRO (1953-1954 and 1960-1962); Post-doctoral Research, University of Manchester (1958-1959); Rossby Fellow, then Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Ocenaographic Institue (1962-1966); Assistant Director of Research, then Reader, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge (1966-1975), Fellow, Darwin College, Cambridge (1974); Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge (1985); Emeritus Professor of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (1996), Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
Memberships:
FInstP
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/03/1982
Age at election52
RelationshipsSon of Ivan and Enid Turner; married (07 March 1959) Sheila; two sons, one daughter
SourceSources:
WWA1998
CodeNA4509
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1982/38Turner, John Stewart: certificate of election to the Royal Society1979
IM/004675Turner, John StewartMay 1982
IM/004676Turner, John StewartMay 1982
IM/GA/SGRS/8399Turner, John Stewart1985
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