Graeme Jameson
Graeme Jameson AO (born 1936) is an engineer, professor and Director of the Centre for Multiphase Processes at the University of Newcastle (UoN), in New South Wales, Australia. He is notable for being the inventor of the Jameson Cell mineral separation device, which he devised in the 1980s. The Jameson Cell uses bubbles to separate super fine particles during mineral processing.[1] It is based on the froth flotation mineral separation process, first invented in 1905.[2]
In the coal industry alone, Jameson's cell has retrieved A$36 billion worth of export coal particles.[1] It is being used worldwide in the separation of coal, copper, lead, nickel, platinum, silver and zinc.[2]
Education
In 1960 Jameson received a Bachelor of Science (Chemical Engineering), from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), and in 1964 a PhD (Chemical Engineering), from the University of Cambridge, UK.[3]
Jameson has been Professor of Chemical Engineering at UON since 1978.[2]
Awards
Jameson received the Order of Australia Medal (AO) in 2005, and the Antoine M. Gaudin Medal in 2013.[2] In 2013 he was also NSW Scientist of the Year.[4] In 2015 he won a Prime Minister's Prize for Science for his cell, the 'Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation'.[1][3]
References
- 1 2 3 Sturmer, Jake (21 October 2015). "Engineer Graeme Jameson picks up Prime Minister's science prize for billion-dollar bubbles". Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Retrieved 21 October 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 "A GOLD MINE OF INNOVATION". www.newcastle.edu.au. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
- 1 2 "2015 Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation – Professor Graeme Jameson" (Press release). Science in Public Pty Ltd. 21 October 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
- ↑ "NSW Science & Engineering Awards: 2008-2014". chiefscientist.nsw.gov.au. Office of the NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer. Retrieved 21 October 2015.