James Graham

Background

Graham, James was born on October 13, 1929 in Perth, Australia. Son of James Mitchell and Dorothea Isobel (Thrum) Graham.

Education

Master of Science in Physics, U. Western Australia, 1953; Doctor of Philosophy in Physical Metallurgy, U. Birmingham, United Kingdom, 1956.

Career

Research fellow, U. Birmingham, 1955-1956; research officer, senior research officer, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Melbourne, Victoria., Australia, 1956-1963; principal research scientist, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Perth, Western Australia., Australia, 1964-1994; honorary senior research fellow, Research Center for Advanced Materials and Mineral Processing, U. Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia, since 1994. Advisory board physics Curtin U., Perth, since 1970.

Achievements

• James Graham has been listed as a noteworthy Mineralogist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Deacon Claremont Baptist Church, since 1970. Member county West Australian Baptist Theological College, since 1975. Fellow Australian Institute Physics, British Institute Physics.

Member Mineralogical Association Canada, Mineralogical Society American (vice president international county for applied mineralogy 1993, president since 1994).

Connections

Married Valerie Lois Elms, March 22, 1958. Children: Carolyn, Dorothy, Margaret.

Father:

James Mitchell Graham

Mother:

Dorothea Isobel (Thrum) Graham

Spouse:

Valerie Lois Elms

child:

Margaret Graham

child:

Dorothy Graham

child:

Carolyn Graham