Marshall Hatch

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Marshall Davidson Hatch AM (b. 24 December 1932) is an Australian biochemist and plant physiologist and Chief Research Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Plant Industry in Canberra. He is a Clarke Medalist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and Fellow of the Royal Society.[1]

Education

Hatch attended Newington College (1947–1950) [2] and studied biochemistry at the University of Sydney with Frederick Robert Whatley. He completed his BSc with honours in 1954 and was awarded his PhD in 1959 by the University of Sydney.

Career

From 1955 to 1959 he was a plant research scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Sydney. He received a Fulbright Fellowship in 1961 which he used to work with Paul Karl Stumph in the Department for Biochemistry at the University of California.[3] 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.[3] With his colleague Charles Roger Slack, Hatch confirmed and greatly extended knowledge of the C4 carbon fixation pathway that was discovered by Hugo P. Kortschak and two additional colleagues in the 1950s and early 1960s prior to the work of Hatch and Slack. The C4 pathway is sometimes known as the Hatch-Slack pathway of photosynthesis, but this latter designation should be abandoned since other scientists made the actual discovery.[4][5]

Publications

He has published more than 200 papers in scientific journals and books in the field of photosynthesis and other areas of plant biochemistry.[6]

Honours

  • Centenary Medal in 2001 for service to Australian society and science in biochemistry and physiology.[7]
  • International Prize for Biology in 1991 for his contributions to the plant sciences.
  • Member of the Order of Australia in 1981 for public service in the field of plant metabolism.[8]
  • Clarke Medal in 1973 for distinguished work in the natural sciences.

References

  1. ↑ Who's Who in Australia (Crown Content Melb, 2007) pp 952: Hatch, Marshall Davidson (1932 - )
  2. ↑ Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) pp84
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Hatch, Marshall Davidson (1932 - ), Bright Sparcs. The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
  4. ↑ Nickell, 1993, A tribute to Hugo Kortschak: The man, the scientist and the discoverer of C4 photosynthesis, Photosynthesis Research, 35(2):201-204, February 1993
  5. ↑ Biochem. J. (1967) 103 660 Comparative Studies on the Activity of Carboxylases and Other Enzymes in Relation to the New Pathway of Photosynthetic Carbon Dioxide Fixation in Tropical Grasses
  6. ↑ Leading plant scientist to speak at UQ graduation ceremony, 19 May 1998, UQ News
  7. ↑ "It's an Honour". Australian Government. Retrieved 29 January 2013. 
  8. ↑ "It's an Honour". Australian Government. Retrieved 29 January 2013. 
Awards
Preceded by
H. King		 Clarke Medal
1973 		Succeeded by
C. H. Tyndale-Biscoe
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