Hedley Marston

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Hedley Ralph Marston (26 August 1900 - 25 August 1965) was an Australian biochemist who worked for the CSIRO. In the 1950s, his research into fallout from the British nuclear tests at Maralinga brought Marston into bitter conflict with the government appointed Safety Committee. He was vindicated posthumously by the McClelland Royal Commission, which found that significant radiation hazards existed at many of the Maralinga test sites long after the tests.

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• Hedley Ralph Marston 1900-1965 by E. J. Underwood, Australian Academy of Science.
• Book Review: "Fallout: Hedley Marston and the British bomb tests in Australia", by Tim Sherratt, Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 14, no. 2, November 2002, pp. 209-10.