Denton, Derek A.

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Agent TypePersonIdentifierUMA-AG-000000002 Last edited by: mbarrie@unimelb.edu.au

Activities & OccupationsPhysiologistsGenderMaleHistoryDerek Denton graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1947 and embarked on a career as a research physiologist, mentored by Professor Roy Douglas Wright.

In 1948 he was appointed Haley research fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. In 1949 he set up the Ionic Research Unit, supported as a Senior and then Principal research fellow of National Health & Medical Research Council, in the Department of Physiology at the University of Melbourne.

Between 1964 and 1970 he was Administrative Head and Chief Scientist of the Howard Florey Laboratories of Experimental Physiology in the Department of Physiology, and was Founding Director of the Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine (1971). He was the University’s foundation Professor of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, 1997-89.

Elected a Foreign Medical Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1974, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences in 1979, an Honorary Foreign Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London in 1988, a Fellow of the Royal Society (London) in 1999, and the French Academy of Sciences in 2003. Fellow of Trinity College, University of Melbourne, 2004 and from 1978-1990 he was a member of the prestigious Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation Basic and Clinical Medical Research Awards Jury.

His major area of interest has been instinctive behaviour, including that which controls the water and balance of salts in the body, and evolution of the mechanisms involved. The National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. at his election in 1995, cited him as the world’s leading authority on the regulation of salt and water metabolism and relevant endocrine control mechanisms.Search records of this agent

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[2017.0015] Papers of Derek Ashworth Denton

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Date27 May 1924-18 November 2022

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Given NameDerekMiddle NameAshworthFamily NameDentonSuffixAC Last edited by: mbarrie@unimelb.edu.au

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Source of DescriptionEMERITUS PROFESSOR DEREK DENTON AC 1924 – 2022 Last edited by: mbarrie@unimelb.edu.au

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