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at University College London was supported by a
Shell (Australia) Science Scholarship.
The transition to natural products synthesis
was made as a result of a postdoctoral spell at the
ETH (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in
Zurich, working on the final stages of the synthesis
of vitamin B12 with Professor A Eschenmoser.
He was appointed to an assistant lectureship at
Cambridge in 1972.
In 1977 he was appointed to a lectureship
until he took the position of Director of the Melville
Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis in 1994. He was
promoted to a personal readership in 1995 and to
a personal professorship in 1998.
In September 2004 he became Professor
of Organic and Polymer Chemistry at Imperial
College, and in October 2004 he was also
appointed ARC Federation Fellow and inaugural
VESKI Fellow at the Bio21 Institute at the University
of Melbourne and at CSIRO Molecular and Health
Technologies. He is a Laureate Professor Emeritus
of Chemistry at the Bio21 Institute, a CSIRO Fellow
Emeritus and a Distinguished Research Fellow
in the Department of Chemistry at the Imperial
College, London.
In May 2010 he was appointed as Foreign
Secretary of the Australian Academy of Science,
and in May 2014 he was elected President of the
Australian Academy of Science.
Professor Holmes is distinguished for his
contributions to the synthesis of biologically
important natural products and for pioneering work
on semiconducting conjugated polymers.
He has been accorded many honours. In 2000
he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and
awarded its prestigious Royal Medal in 2012. He
was elected as Fellow of the Australian Academy
of Science in 2006. He was appointed a Member
of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2004 Australia
Day Honours list, and a Companion of the Order of
Australia (AC) in the 2017 Australia Day awards.
Professor Holmes was appointed to the
School Council in March 2013. He has made a
valuable contribution to the work of the Council,
and is currently a member of the Risk committee.
levels, and to the promotion of ecumenism,
interfaith dialogue and reconciliation.
Mr Alan Synman (‘59) — Medal of the Order of
Australia (OAM)
Mr Synman received his award for service to the
community, and to architecture.
The other Scotch Family 2017 Australia Day
recipients are:
Dr Noel Ami Alpins (‘64) —Member of the
Order of Australia (AM)
Dr Alpins received his award for significant service
to ophthalmology, particularly to the development
of innovative refractive surgery techniques, and to
professional associations.
Emeritus Professor John Hamilton Bowie
(‘55) —Member of the Order of Australia (AM)
Professor Bowie received his award for
significant service to science in the field of mass
spectrometry, and to education as an academic,
researcher and author.
Donald Brian Chambers (‘54) (deceased) —
Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)
Mr Chambers received his award for service
to local government, and to the community of
Victoria. (Award with effect from 30 June 2015.)
Professor David Jamie (Jamie) Cooper —
Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
Professor Cooper received his award for
distinguished service to intensive care medicine in
the field of traumatic brain injury as a clinician, and
to medical education as an academic, researcher
and author.
The Reverend Alistair James Macrae (‘74) —
Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
Rev Macrae received his award for distinguished
service to the Uniting Church in Australia through
executive and ministerial roles at state and national
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