Early Life and Education
Ian Plimer grew up in Sydney and attended Normanhurst Boys' High School. He earned a B.Sc. (Hons) in mining engineering at the University of New South Wales in 1968, and a Ph.D. at Macquarie University in 1976. His doctoral thesis was titled, The pipe deposits of tungsten-molybdenum-bismuth in eastern Australia.
Read more about this topic: Ian Plimer
Famous quotes containing the words early, life and/or education:
“Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.”
—Gerald Early (b. 1952)
“What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?”
—William Henry Davies (1871–1940)
“If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war?—not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)