People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

2 February, 1930
Marrickville, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Death

28 October, 1996 (aged 66)
Prahran, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Cause of Death

kidney disease

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• New Zealander

Education

• Canterbury Boys' High (Sydney)
• University of Sydney

Occupation or Descriptor

• academic
• medical scientist
• physiologist

Awards

• Marshall Medal (Society for the Study of Fertility, UK)
• Officer of the Order of Australia

Legacies

• G.D. Thorburn lecture (Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand)
• G.D. Thorburn prize in physiology (Monash University)

Key Organisations

• Royal Australasian College of Physicians
• Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand
• Australian Academy of Science
• Royal Australian College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Workplaces

• University of New South Wales (physiology and pharmacology)
• CSIRO (animal health)
• Nuffield Institute for Medical Research (Oxford University)
• University of Queensland (physiology)
• Monash University (physiology)