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Name	Jack Maxwell Rayner
Born	22 October, 1906 Granville, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	6 October, 1982 (aged 75) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Cultural Heritage	English Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Raggatt, Harold George (work colleague) Vonwiller, Oscar Ulrich (mentor)
Occupation or Descriptor *	geophysicist (1929-1942) New South Wales, Australia public servant (1929-1942) New South Wales, Australia geophysicist (1942-1980) Australian Capital Territory, Australia public servant (1942-1969) Federal, Australia mining consultant (1970-1980) Australian Capital Territory, Australia

* Dates are approximate