Background
DENTON, Derek Ashworth. Military Medal was born on May 27, 1924 in Launceston, Tasmania. Son of A. A. Denton.
DENTON, Derek Ashworth. Military Medal was born on May 27, 1924 in Launceston, Tasmania. Son of A. A. Denton.
Launceston Grammar School and University of Melbourne.
Fellow, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research 1943. Overseas National Health and Medical Research Council (New Hampshire & Medical Research Council) Fellow, Cambridge 1952-1953. Medical Research Fellow, later Senior Medical Research Fellow, National Health and Medical Research Council 1949-1963, Principal Research Fellow, Administration Head and Chief Scientist 1964-1970.
Director and originating Board.
Director since 1990; Director The David Syme Company Limited. since 1984, Australian Ballet Foundation since 1983. First Vice-President Institute Union of Physiological Sciences 1983-1989.
Chairman Nommaling Committee of Council, Institute Union of Physiological Sciences. Foreign Medical; Fellow, American Academy, of Arts and Sciences.
Honorary Foreign.
Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine 1971-1989, Emeritus. Royal Swedish Academy, of Sciences. Jury of Basic and Clinical Medical Awards, Albert and Mary Lacker Foundation 1979-1989.
American Physiology Society.
Married Catherine M. Scott in 1953.