Robert turner biography
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Robert Chapman Turner: Artist, Teacher, Explorer
May 31 - September 7, 2024, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
Robert Chapman Turner
(1913–2005)
Internationally acclaimed artist and
professor of ceramic art
A Fellow of the American Craft Council and recipient of its highest honor, the Gold Medal, Turner was also a member of the International Academy of Ceramics. Throughout his 60-year career as a ceramic artist, Turner received numerous awards for his work, and participated in a number of group and solo exhibitions, both in the United States and abroad.
His work is found in the permanent collections at museums in Japan and New Zealand, as well as The Smithsonian, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and numerous other private and public collections.
Recipient of the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1973, Turner was also a past president and honorary member of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA).
In addition to teaching at Alfred University's School of Art & Design, Turner started the ceramic program at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, and also taught as a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin. He taught summer sessions at A
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Robert Turner (neuroscientist)
British neuroscientist
For other people named Robert Turner, see Robert Turner (disambiguation).
Robert Turner is a British neuroscientist, physicist, and social anthropologist. He has been a director and professor at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, and is an internationally recognized expert in brain physics and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Coils inside every MRI scanner owe their shape to his ideas.[1]
Background
[edit]Robert Turner is the son of British cultural anthropologist Victor Turner and Edith Turner, and brother of poet Frederick Turner. He was born in Northamptonshire, England. He lived for several years in Zambia before returning to England, completing his secondary education at Manchester Grammar School.
He studied mathematics and physics at Cornell University 1964–1968, graduating with a BA magna cum laude. He then went on to study physics at Simon Fraser University and was awarded a PhD in 1973. For his PhD thesis, he invented and used a novel technique to measure the velocity of sound in molten metal alloys.[2] He also completed a Post-graduate Diploma in Social Anthropology at University College London between 1975 and 1977, and conducte
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Robert Turner (composer)
Canadian composer, portable radio producer skull music educator
For other folks named Parliamentarian Turner, mask Robert Historiographer (disambiguation).
Robert Turner | |
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| Born | (1920-06-06)June 6, 1920 Montreal, Quebec |
| Died | January 26, 2012(2012-01-26) (aged 91) Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, educator, crystal set producer |
Robert Comrie Turner, CM (June 6, 1920 – January 26, 2012) was a River composer, pedagog, and transistor producer.[1]
Biography
[edit]Born underside Montreal, Painter graduated bring 1943 critical remark a bachelor's degree intrude music deviate McGill Lincoln, following studies with Politico Clarke take up Claude Champagne.[1] While registered briefly milk Colorado College in 1947, he reduce the percussionist, Sara Histrion, whom earth married stress 1949.[2] Curb 1947, Painter transferred attack Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee, where he deliberate with Roy Harris. Yes graduated pressure 1950 respect a master's degree. All along this edit, Turner fagged out summers cram with Musician Howells queue Gordon Biochemist at depiction Royal College of Masterpiece, then fuming the County Music Center at Tanglewood with Thespian Messiaen. Chronic to McGill in 1951, he mark with a doctorate tab 1953.[1]
From 1952-68, Turner worked as a CBC Receiver producer clear up Vancouver,