Marshall Hatch
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Marshall (Hal) Davidson Hatch AM (born 24 December 1932) was an Australian biochemist and plant physiologist. He was the chief research scientist at the CSIRO Division of Plant Industry in Canberra. 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 Sciences and was awarded Honorary Doctorates from the University of Götting youen and the University of Queensland.Who's Who in Australia (Crown Content Melb.2007) pp 952: Hatch, Marshall Davidson (1932-). In Australia, in 1966, he elucidated, jointly with Charles Roger Slack, the C4 pathway for the fixation of carbon, which is also sometimes known as the Hatch-Slack pathway.{{cite journal|pmid=4292834 |title=Comparative studies on the activity of carboxylases and other enzymes in relation to the new pathway of photosynthetic carbon dioxide fixation in tropical grasses |year=1967|volume=103|last1=Slack|first1=CR|last2=Hatch|first2=MD|issue=3|pmc=1270465|journal=The Biochemical Journal|pages=660–5 |doi=10.1042/bj1030660}} He is now retired.[https://www.asps.org.au/members/life-members ASPS Life Membership] Retrieved 5 May 2016.
Early life
Hatch was born in Perth, Western Australia to Alice (née Dalziell) and Lloyd Davidson Hatch. His father was an accountant and the family moved to Sydney in 1947. His primary education was at Applecross Primary School and he then had a year of high school at Wesley College before moving east. He was 14 when he commenced at Newington College where he completed the last four years (1947–1950)Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 82 of his high school education. He was a member of the First XV Rugby team and won the State under 17 years mile championship at Newington. He then majored in biochemistry at the University of Sydney completing his BSc with Honours in 1954 and a PhD in 1959.Hatch MD (1992) I Can't believe my luck: Personal perspective. Photosynthesis Research 33: 1-14.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.
Career
From 1955 to 1959 he was a plant research scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in 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.[https://csiropedia.csiro.au/hatch-marshall-davidson/ CSIROpedia – Marshall Davidson Hatch] Retrieved 9 November 2016.
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.[http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000483b.htm Hatch, Marshall Davidson (1932 - )], Bright Sparcs. The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
Honours
- Centenary Medal in 2001 for service to Australian society and science in biochemistry and physiology.{{Cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1127566|title=Centenary Medal|last=|first=|date=|website=honours.pmc.gov.au|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-28}}
- 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.{{Cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/886028|title=Member of the Order of Australia|last=|first=|date=|website=honours.pmc.gov.au|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-28}}
- Rank Prize in Nutrition in 1981, along with Hugo Kortschak and Roger Slack, for "outstanding work on the mechanism of photosynthesis which established the existence of an alternative pathway for the initial fixation of carbon dioxide in some important food plants".{{cite web | title=Prizes awarded by the Human and Animal Nutrition and Crop Husbandry Fund | website=The Rank Prize | url=http://www.rankprize.org/index.php/prizes/nutrition | access-date=11 July 2020}}
- Lemberg Medal in 1974, Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology{{Cite web |title=Lemberg Medal Winners |url=https://www.asbmb.org.au/waldronsmith.eventsair.com/lemberg-medal-winners |access-date=2024-01-31 |website=Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology}}
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Category:Australian biochemists
Category:Researchers of photosynthesis
Category:People educated at Newington College
Category:University of Sydney alumni
Category:Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
Category:Members of the Order of Australia
Category:Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences