Graeme John Jameson (born 1936) is an engineer, professor and Director of the Centre for Multiphase Processes at the

University of Newcastle, Australia The University of Newcastle (UON), informally known as Newcastle University, is a public university in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1965, it has a primary campus in the Newcastle suburb of Callaghan. The university al ...

, 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. It is based on the

froth flotation Froth flotation is a process for selectively separating hydrophobic materials from hydrophilic. This is used in mineral processing, paper recycling and waste-water treatment industries. Historically this was first used in the mining industry, wher ...

mineral separation process, first invented in 1905. In the coal industry alone, Jameson's cell has retrieved 36 billion worth of export coal particles. It is being used worldwide in the separation of coal, copper, lead, nickel, platinum, silver and zinc.

Education

In 1960 Jameson received a

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degree in

chemical engineering Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials int ...

from the

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(UNSW), and in 1963 a PhD from the

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Career and research

Jameson has been Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Newcastle since 1978.

Awards and honours

Jameson was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2005, and received the Antoine M. Gaudin Medal in 2013. In 2013 he was also NSW Scientist of the Year. In 2015 he won a Prime Minister's Prize for Science for his cell, and the Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation. Also in 2015, he was elected a member of the

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for the development of innovative flotation technology for advanced mineral processing. In 2018 he was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathemat ...

(FRS), the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence with a fellowship of 1600 of the world's most eminent scientists.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jameson, Graeme 1936 births Living people Officers of the Order of Australia Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Australian Fellows of the Royal Society