People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

26 November, 1925
Ashburton, New Zealand

Death

23 May, 2021 (aged 95)
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• New Zealander

Occupation or Descriptor

• academic
• geochemist
• planetary scientist

Awards

• Leonard Medal (Meteoritical Society)
• Goldschmidt Medal (Geochemical Society of America)
• G. K. Gilbert Award (Geological Society of America)
• Walter H. Bucher Medal (American Geophysical Union)
• Companion of the Order of Australia

Legacies

• 5670 Rosstaylor (asteroid)
• Ross Taylor PhD Supplementary Scholarship in Geochemistry (ANU)

Key Organisations

• Royal Society of New Zealand
• Australian Academy of Science
• Geological Society of London
• National Academy of Public Administration (Washington, USA)

Workplaces

• Australian National University (geophysics)
• NASA