Brigadier Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley KBE FRS (15 July 1891 – 19 April 1966) was an Australian physician, medical scientist and army officer.
Brigadier Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley KBE FRS (15 July 1891 – 19 April 1966) was an Australian physician, medical scientist and army officer.
It's a toss-up between provoking the inactivated X chromosome into action and debunking the gene everyone thought was sex determining.
What was thrilling was the answers to both profound questions came from simple and quick experiments, which instantly changed our picture of how sex chromosomes work. I wish all science was like that!
Both discoveries had long-term benefits to our understanding of sex chromosomes.
Michael Alpers has spent his life studying kuru and tropical infectious diseases, mostly in Papua New Guinea. His work on kuru opened up a new field of human medicine and led to the discovery of prions.
Paleontologist Michael Archer, Fellow of the Academy since 2002, has over 30 years’ experience in the evolutionary history of marsupials and monotremes.
Epidemiologist Bruce Armstrong is an international expert in public health, particularly on the causes and control of skin cancer. He has been Fellow of the Academy since 2000.
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