Talk:Marshall Hatch

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Marshall Hatch

Marshall Davidson Hatch AM (b 24 December 1932) is an Australian plant biochemist/physiologist now retired. 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 Science and was awarded Honorary Doctorates from the University of Gottingen and the University of Queensland. (1).

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Education

Hatch attended Newington College (1947-1950) then majored in biochemistry at the University of Sydney completing his BSc with Honours in 1954 and a PhD in 1959. (2,3).

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Career

From 1955 to 1959 he was a research scientist working in the Plant Physiology Unit of the Common wealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in the University of 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. ( 2,3).
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From 1961 to 1966 Hatch worked as a Research Officer in the David North Plant Research Centre, Colonial Sugar Refining Co Ltd (CSR) in Brisbane headed by Dr K T Glasziou. He was a Reader in Botany, University of Queensland for one year in 1967 and then returned to CSR from 1968 to 1969. Since 1970 he has been a Chief Research Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Plant Industry in Canberra. (2,3). He retired in 1997.
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Working at CSR Co Ltd in Brisbane, Hatch and his colleague Roger Slack provided the first clear evidence for a novel alternative mechanism for photosynthetic carbon assimilation, now known as C4 photosynthesis. (4,5). Over the period from 1966 to 1970 these studies provided details of the biochemical mechanism and the enzymes involved in this process and evidence for its operation in a variety of grass genera. Hatch and colleagues continued to make contributions to the evolving story of C4 photosynthesis over the following 30 years including evidence for the operation of biochemical variants of this C4 process. (2,6). There are detailed accounts (2,6) of the events leading up to recognition of this process including the prior observations of Kortschak, Hartt and Burr in Hawaii and Yuri Karpilov in Russia.
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Publications

Hatch has published about 170 reviewed papers and chapters in scientific journals and books in the fields of C4 photosynthesis and other areas of plant biochemistry. (1,6).
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Honours

Centenary Medal in 2001 for services to Australian society and science. (7).

International Prize for Biology in 1991 for functional plant biology. (1)

Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1981 for public service in the field of plant metabolism. (8).

Rank Prize in `1981 (Rank Foundation). (1).

Charles Kettering Award for Photosynthesis in 1980 ( American Society Plant Biologists) (1)

Lemberg Medal and Lecture in 1974 (Aust. Biochem. Soc.). (1).

Clarke Medal in 1973 for distinguished work in natural sciences. (1).

References

1. Who’s Who in Australia (Crown Content Melb.2007) pp 952: Hatch, Marshall Davidson (1932-).

2. Hatch MD (1992) I Can’t believe my luck: Personal perspective. Photosynthesis Research 33: 1-14.

3. 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.

4. Hatch MD and Slack CR (1966) Photosynthesis in sugar cane leaves: A new carboxylation and the pathway of sugar formation. The Biochemical Journal. 101: 103-111.

5. Hatch MD and Slack CR (1970) Photosynthetic CO2-fixation pathways. Annual Review Plant Physiology 21: 141-162.

6. Hatch MD (1999) C4 photosynthesis : A historical overview. In: Sage R and Monson R (eds) C4 Plant Biology, pp 17-46, Academic Press, New York

7.^ "It's an Honour". Australian Government. Retrieved 29 January 2013.

8.^ "It's an Honour". Australian Government. Retrieved 29 January 2013

Discussion
I found claims of severe errors greatly exaggerated, but there were some problems with the page. Please let me know if anything else comes up or there is an item you would like to discuss further. CorporateM (Talk) 04:53, 30 October 2014 (UTC)