Record ID:
35249551 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50038810
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19010405
Death:
  • 19870516
Fields of activity:
  • Spectroscopy
Occupations:
  • Physicists College teachers Mystics
Used for:
  • Johnson, Raynor carey
Notes:
  • ADB online 2 Feb. 2014 (Raynor Carey Johnson (1901-1987), physicist, college master and mystic, was born on 5 April 1901 at Leeds, Yorkshire, England, eldest son of John William Johnson, bank clerk, and his wife Jane, née Wade. Educated at Bradford Grammar School, Raynor won an open scholarship in natural science to Balliol College, Oxford (BA, 1922; MA, 1926). He was invited to become a research student in spectroscopy. He also graduated Ph.D. (1924) and D.Sc. (1927) from the University of London and was appointed a lecturer there in 1927. Between 1923 and 1933 he wrote or co-authored twenty-one papers, published a book, Spectra (1928), and laid the foundations for later texts. He pursued an interest in psychotherapy. He also became associated with the Society for Psychical Research. In 1934 Johnson accepted the position of Master at Queen<U+2019>s College, University of Melbourne. He took the initiative in founding St Hilda<U+2019>s College, for women students, in 1964. Abandoning his belief in the divinity of Christ and in redemptive theology, Johnson accepted Jesus only as a great spiritual leader, yet he retained the confidence of his college council and community and his tenure continued until his retirement in 1964. He died in Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria, on 16 May 1987)
  • Email from publisher to ANL, 1 Aug., 2007 (1901-1987)
  • His Spectra, 1928.
  • His The imprisoned splendour, 1953 t.p. (Raynor C. Johnson)
  • Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1901)
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)42400
  • abv00235403
  • 000000250803
  • (AuCNL)26998
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL rda DLC AuCNLKIN VU:Q VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc