Fellows' biographical memoirs

Adrien Albert introduced and firmly established the discipline of medicinal chemistry within Australia and contributed greatly to research in heterocyclic chemistry.

Professor Alan Wardrop FAA was a botanist and one of the most distinguished and influential forest products scientists of his generation, whose research on plant cell walls and wood structure significantly advanced forestry science.

Dr Alan Reid AM FAA FTSE was internationally renowned solid state chemist and the founding father of automated mineralogy. He served a long and distinguished career as both a research scientist and organisational leader at CSIRO.

Professor Alan Sargeson FAA FRS was an inorganic chemist internationally renowned for his contributions to coordination chemistry.

Sir Alan Walsh was the originator and developer of the atomic absorption method of chemical analysis, which revolutionised quantitative analysis in the 1950s and 1960s.

Sir David Rivett was a physical chemist, science administrator and Foundation Fellow of the Academy.

Bert Main was one of Australia's leading zoologists and a gifted naturalist whose legacy includes the creation of some of Western Australia's most important national parks and nature reserves.

Alex Boden was a manufacturing chemist who succeeded in that most difficult of industries; through his texts, he was an exceptionally successful educational author; and he was a publisher who relished editing, a man of some privacy and reticence who made deep and continuing friendships across the world, a singularly devoted husband, parent and grandparent, and a philanthropist in an age when philanthropy had almost dropped out of sight. His life was one of remarkable richness, variety, originality and generosity. It is unlikely that there has been another Australian of his kind.

Alexander George Ogston, the first of six children, was born on 30 January 1911, in Bombay, India, where his father, Walter Henry Ogston, of firmly Aberdonian ancestry, was a businessman for twenty years. His mother, nee Josephine Elizabeth Carter, fourteen years younger than her husband, trained at the Froebel Educational Institute as a teacher, won silver and gold medals at University College, London, studying biological sciences, but married before completing her degree.

Alexander Killen Macbeth was an Irish-born organic chemist who became a major figure in Australian chemistry.