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Jan Romuald Zdysiewicz, FRACI, 1943–2010*

Jennifer M. Bennett A C and Donald W. Cameron B
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A CSIRO PUBLISHING, PO Box 1139/150 Oxford Street, Collingwood, Vic. 3066, Australia.

B Previous address: School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic. 3010, Australia.

C Corresponding author. Email: jenny.bennett@csiro.au




Jenny Bennett graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Ph.D. (synthesis and biological activities of analogues of compounds with anti-cancer properties). Since 1995 she has worked as Assistant Editor, Associate Editor, Production Editor, and Deputy Managing Editor of Australian Journal of Chemistry – an International Journal for Chemical Science and Environmental Chemistry. She was heavily involved in launching the CSIRO suite of journals in electronic form in 1997. Since 2008 she has been Publisher of the chemical sciences journals within CSIRO PUBLISHING.



A graduate of the Universities of Queensland, Manchester, and Cambridge, Don Cameron was Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Melbourne from 1968 to 2000. He is a Corday-Morgan Medalist of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Leighton Memorial Medalist of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. He was a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee for the Australian Journal of Chemistry from 1978 to 1983, and was the Committee’s Chairman from 1990 to 1995. He has published over 70 papers in the Journal. He lives in retirement in Melbourne.

Australian Journal of Chemistry 63(8) 1139-1140 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH10272
Published: 10 August 2010




* Some information here is reproduced, with permission, from Leonard F. Lindoy, Aust. J. Chem. 2000, 53, 893.