- David Parry (biophysicist)
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David Anthony Dougall Parry, CNZM is a renowned New Zealand biophysicist known for his work within the area of ultrastructure scleroprotein analysis. He is the former President of the International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics and former Vice President of the International Council for Science.
His awards include an ICI Prize (1981), Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand (1989), the Hercus Medal (2000), the Shorland Medal (2006), and the Rutherford Medal (2008). In 2007 he was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
Parry has a Bachelor of Science (1963), a Doctor of Philosophy (1966), and a Doctor of Science (1982) from the University of London. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Protein Chemistry division at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Melbourne, Australia from 1966-1969. From 1969 to 1971 he worked for the Children's Cancer Research Foundation in Boston, Massachusetts. Later he became a research scientist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics at Oxford University from 1971 to 1973. He then worked for many years on the faculty of Massey University.
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Categories:- Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit
- Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand
- Massey University faculty
- New Zealand biologists
- New Zealand physicists
- Living people
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