Fellows' biographical memoirs

Alex Boden was a manufacturing chemist who succeeded in that most difficult of industries; through his texts, he was an exceptionally successful educational author; and he was a publisher who relished editing, a man of some privacy and reticence who made deep and continuing friendships across the world, a singularly devoted husband, parent and grandparent, and a philanthropist in an age when philanthropy had almost dropped out of sight. His life was one of remarkable richness, variety, originality and generosity. It is unlikely that there has been another Australian of his kind.

Alexander George Ogston, the first of six children, was born on 30 January 1911, in Bombay, India, where his father, Walter Henry Ogston, of firmly Aberdonian ancestry, was a businessman for twenty years. His mother, nee Josephine Elizabeth Carter, fourteen years younger than her husband, trained at the Froebel Educational Institute as a teacher, won silver and gold medals at University College, London, studying biological sciences, but married before completing her degree.

Dr Alexander Nicholson CBE FAA was an entomologist who developed foundational theories of population regulation and natural selection, transformed Australian entomology into a rigorous science, and led CSIRO's Division of Entomology.

Alexander Killen Macbeth was an Irish-born organic chemist who became a major figure in Australian chemistry.

Professor Alexander Dick FAA OBE discovered how copper, molybdenum and sulphate interact in sheep, transforming livestock nutrition science and launching a global wave of related research.

Ted Ringwood was born in Kew, an inner Melbourne suburb, on 19 April 1930, an only child in a family which identified strongly with Australia and with Melbourne in particular. Both his parents were Australian, but his mother's parents had come to Australia as Presbyterian emigrants from Ulster.

With the passing of Alfred Gottschalk on October 4th 1973, at Tübingen, West Germany, in his 80th year, there ended a life of extraordinary dedication to research in biochemistry. He died acclaimed as the leading authority in the ever-expanding field of glycoprotein research.

Professor A. David Buckingham CBE FAA FRS made fundamental theoretical and experimental contributions to the understanding of optical, electric and magnetic properties of molecules.

Professor Andy Cole was a world leader in the infrared spectroscopy of small gas molecules, with a strong interest in science education.

Dr Angus McEwan FAA FTSE was a renowned Australian fluid dynamicist, specialising in designing and conducting experimental studies in geophysical fluid dynamics, and providing outstanding leadership of national and international research programs in oceanography and meteorology.