Background
GIBSON, Frank William Ernest was born on July 22, 1923 in Melbourne. Son of John William and Alice Ruby (nee Hancock) Gibson.
GIBSON, Frank William Ernest was born on July 22, 1923 in Melbourne. Son of John William and Alice Ruby (nee Hancock) Gibson.
Collingwood Technology College, University of Queensland, Melbourne and Oxford.
Assistant Melbourne and Queensland Universities 1938-1947, Senior Demonstrator Melbourne University 1948-1949, Senior Lecturer 1953-1958, Reader in Chemical Microbiology 1959-1965, Professor 1965-1966. Australian National University Scholar, Oxford 1950-1952. Research Association Stanford University 1959.
Director of John Curtin School and Howard Florey Professor, of Medical Research Australian National University 1977-1980, Professor, of Biochemistry 1967-1988.
Visiting Professor, and Fellow Lincoln College, Oxford 1982-1983. Fellow A.N.U. since 1989.
President Australian Biochemical Society 1978-1979, Gowland Hopkins.
Married 1st Margaret Burvill in 1949 (divorced in 1979), two daughter. Married 2nd Robin Barker (nee Rollason) Gibson in 1980, one son.