Keith Crook

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Keith Crook pointing out fossilised Edenopteron fish remains near Eden NSW in 2010

Keith Alan Waterhouse Crook (3 August 1933 - 18 February 2020) was an Australian geologist and Clarke Medalist.[1][2]

Education

Keith Crook attended

PhD at the University of New England from 1956 until 1959, followed by postdoctoral studies at the University of Melbourne and the University of Alberta
, Canada, from 1959 until 1961.

Teaching career

In 1961, Crook took a position at the

Edenopteron keithcrooki, in honour of Keith Crook. This was in recognition of Crook's discovery of several fossil sites in New South Wales, plus coordinating the mapping of a large area around Eden and Twofold Bay by staff and students of his at the ANU.[5]

Pacifism and Political involvement

In 1955 he was drafted into military service, which crystallized his disquiet on the use of war and violence as political tools, and he subsequently was granted an exemption as a conscientious objector. Around this time he started attending Quaker meetings, whose Peace testimony accorded with his own thoughts, and he joined as a member in 1958. In 1963 Crook joined the

James Backhouse Lecture in Melbourne, entitled “Security for Australia?”.[6]

Personal life

Crook was the son of Alan Crook and Muriel Waterhouse. He met and married Norma Jean Fuller in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1961 and they had three children. After divorcing he married Dr Anne Felton. Crook died on 18 February 2020 in Eden, shortly after returning from evacuation during the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season.[10]

Honours

Crook was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1983.[11]

Publications

  • Security for Australia by Dr K.A.W. Crook (Sydney: Australian Yearly Meeting, 1970)
  • The geological evolution of Australia & New Zealand by D. A. Brown, K. S. W. Campbell, K. A. W. Crook (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1968)
  • Manual of sedimentary structures by C.E.B. Conybeare and K.A.W. Crook (Canberra: Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, 1968)
  • Tasman orogen profile by M.J. Rickard and K.A.W. Crook (Sydney : Dept. of Mineral Resources, 1985)
  • The Concorde SST and Australia - problems in open assessment of specialised technology by M.C. Anderson, K.A.W. Crook and M.O. Diesendorf (Canberra : Society for Social Responsibility in Science, 1974)[12]

References

  1. ^ "Clarke Medal". The Royal Society of NSW.
  2. ^ "Keith Alan Waterhouse Crook". Canberra Times. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  3. ^ Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 45
  4. ^ Geology at ANU (1959-2009): 50 years of history and reminiscences
  5. PMID 23483884
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  6. ^ a b Backhouse Lecture
  7. ^ "Bradfield - 2009 federal by-election - ABC Elections (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
  8. ^ file:///C:/Users/Jay/AppData/Local/Temp/b17526346-6115-O'Connell.pdf
  9. ^ "Trove".
  10. ^ https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bombalatimes-au/obituary.aspx?n=keith-alan-watherhouse-crook&pid=195512226& [dead link]
  11. ^ The Royal Society Clarke Medal Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  12. ^ National Library of Australia Catalogue
Awards
Preceded by Clarke Medal
1983 		Succeeded by
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