Roger George Burns

Background

Burns, Roger George was born on December 28, 1937 in Wellington, New Zealand. Son of Alexander Parker and Jean Gertrude (Rodgers) Burns.

Education

Bachelor of Science (Sir George Grey scholar 1958, Emily Lilias Johnson scholar 1959), Victoria University of Wellington, 1959; Master of Science, Victoria University of Wellington, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy (Science fellow), University of California, Berkeley, 1965; Master of Arts in Geology (British Council scholar 1965-1966, Natural Environmental Research Council, England fellow 1966), University of Oxford, 1968; Doctor of Science, University of Oxford, 1984.

Career

Demonstrator chemistry department, Victoria University of Wellington, 1959-1960; senior lecturer geochemistry, Victoria University of Wellington, 1967; science officer, Department Science and Industrial Research, Wellington, 1961; research associate department engineering science, University of California, Berkeley, 1965; senior research visitor department mineralogy and petrology, Cambridge U., England, 1966; lecturer geochemistry, University of Oxford, 1968-1970; associate professor geochemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1970-1972; professor mineralogy and geochemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972-1994. Visiting professor Scripps Institution Oceanography, La Jolla, California, 1976. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization professor Jadavpur U., Calcutta, India, 1981.

Hallimond lecturer Mineral.Soc. England, 1987; Guggenheim professor Manchester U., England, 1991. Principal investigator lunar sample analysis team Apollo program National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1970-1994, member lunar and planetary proposal review panel, 1978-1981.

Member Executive Committee Manganese Nodule Project Seabed Assessment Program International Decade Ocean Exploration National Science Foundation, 1974-1980. Member of advisory panel Marine Minerals Office, 1976. Member review panel National Sciences and Engineering Research Canada, 1985.

Member steering committee National Aeronautics and Space Administration MSATT project, 1990-1994.

Achievements

• Roger George Burns has been listed as a noteworthy Mineralogist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Mineral. Society American (life. Award 1976, councillor 1978-1982, representative for Geological Society American abstracts review committee 1984-1988). Member Mineral. Society Great Britain.

Member American Geophysical Union (mineral physics committee 1984-1986), Geochem. Society, New Zealand Geochem.

Connections

Married Virginia Anne Mee, September 7, 1963. Children: Kirk George, Jonathan Roger.

Father:

Alexander Parker Burns

Mother:

Jean Gertrude (Rodgers) Burns

Spouse:

Virginia Anne Mee

child:

Jonathan Roger Burns

child:

Kirk George Burns