Marshall Hatch

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Marshall (Hal) Davidson Hatch AM (born 24 December 1932) was an Australian biochemist and plant physiologist. He was the chief research scientist at the CSIRO Division of Plant Industry in Canberra. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and was awarded Honorary Doctorates from the University of Göttingen and the University of Queensland. [1] In Australia, in 1966, he elucidated, jointly with Charles Roger Slack, the C4 pathway for the fixation of carbon, which is also sometimes known as the Hatch-Slack pathway. [2] He is now retired. [3]

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Early life

Hatch was born in Perth, Western Australia to Alice (née Dalziell) and Lloyd Davidson Hatch. His father was an accountant and the family moved to Sydney in 1947. His primary education was at Applecross Primary School and he then had a year of high school at Wesley College before moving east. He was 14 when he commenced at Newington College where he completed the last four years (1947–1950) [4] of his high school education. He was a member of the First XV Rugby team and won the State under 17 years mile championship at Newington. He then majored in biochemistry at the University of Sydney completing his BSc with Honours in 1954 and a PhD in 1959. [5] [6]

Career

From 1955 to 1959 he was a plant research scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Sydney. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 1959 to work with Professor Paul Stumpf in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of California, Davis. [7]

From 1961 to 1966 Hatch worked as research officer in the David North Plant Research Centre at Colonial Sugar Refining Co Ltd in Brisbane with K.T. Glasziou. He was a reader in botany at the University of Queensland in 1967; he returned to CSR from 1968 to 1969 serving as director of the David North Plant Research Centre. Since 1970 he has been chief research scientist at CSIRO Plant Industry in Canberra. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ Who's Who in Australia (Crown Content Melb.2007) pp 952: Hatch, Marshall Davidson (1932-).
  2. ↑ Slack, CR; Hatch, MD (1967). "Comparative studies on the activity of carboxylases and other enzymes in relation to the new pathway of photosynthetic carbon dioxide fixation in tropical grasses". The Biochemical Journal. 103 (3): 660–5. doi:10.1042/bj1030660. PMC   1270465 . PMID   4292834.
  3. ↑ ASPS Life Membership Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  4. ↑ Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 82
  5. ↑ Hatch MD (1992) I Can't believe my luck: Personal perspective. Photosynthesis Research 33: 1-14.
  6. ↑ Hatch, Marshall Davidson (1932- ) http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000483b.htm), Bright Sparcs. The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994-2007.
  7. ↑ CSIROpedia – Marshall Davidson Hatch Retrieved 9 November 2016.
  8. ↑ Hatch, Marshall Davidson (1932 - ), Bright Sparcs. The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
  9. ↑ "Centenary Medal". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  10. ↑ "Member of the Order of Australia". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  11. ↑ "Prizes awarded by the Human and Animal Nutrition and Crop Husbandry Fund". The Rank Prize. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
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Preceded by Clarke Medal
1973		Succeeded by
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