Ian D Rae
Biographic Data
| ID | 1074989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian D Rae |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian D |
| FAMILY NAME | Rae |
| SIGNATURE | RAE I D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7579-3717 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Editors’ Page
A decade ago, two new editors took over
Noel Sydney Hush (1924–2019)
Noel Hush left Sydney with his MSc in 1949 to work in Manchester, and then Bristol, before returning to the University of Sydney in 1971 as the inaugural professor of theoretical chemistry, the first such chair in Australia. His students and collaborators occupy senior positions in Australian and international universities. With theoreticians and experimentalists he researched electron transfer in electrochemical changes, between metal ions, in c…
John Atherton Young 1936–2004
John Atherton Young (1936–2004) graduated in medicine at the University of Queensland and undertook research in physiology at the Kanematsu Institute in Sydney for which he was awarded his PhD. After postdoctoral studies in Germany, he joined the department of physiology at the University of Sydney, rising to professor, then Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and finally Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Health Sciences. His research on the physiology of epit…
Rupert Horace Myers 1921–2019
Sir Rupert Horace Myers (1921–2019) was born in Melbourne and educated at Melbourne Boys High School and the University of Melbourne, where he was awarded a PhD degree in 1948 for research on the production of rare metals from Australian ores. As part of an Australian delegation, he worked at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell in the United Kingdom on production of uranium and plutonium metals. He returned to Australia in 1952 as…
Editors’ page
Historical Records of Australian Science publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the history of science and scientists in Australia and the southwest Pacific, biographical memoirs of deceased Fellows of the Academy, and an annual bibliography of the history of Australian science
Responses by Australian pharmacologists to respiratory depression caused by opiates and barbiturates
In the middle of the last century, pharmacologists at the University of Melbourne led by Professor Frank Shaw inadvertently discovered that an amino-acridine they were using in other experiments reversed the respiratory depressive effects of morphine. They widened their search for such activity, experimenting with a range of heterocyclic substances and achieving success with a thiazole derivative, provided to them by the Professor of Organic Chem…
Hans Charles Freeman 1929–2008
Hans Freeman was born in Germany and arrived in Australia with his parents in 1938. A brilliant student at the University of Sydney, he spent a seminal year at the California Institute of Technology before joining the staff at Sydney and initiating research on bioinorganic chemistry, studying metal ion complexes of compounds of biological significance such as amino acids, peptides and proteins. In his use of X-ray crystallography he was a pioneer…
Practising organometallic chemistry in nineteenth century Australia: David Orme Masson and diethyl magnesium
By the late 1880s, the existence of alkyl derivatives of metals such as zinc and mercury was well established but diethyl magnesium had been poorly characterised and obtaining proof of its existence was a reasonable aim for chemists. Professor David Orme Masson and his student, Norman Wilsmore, at the university in the British colonial capital, Melbourne, accepted the challenge despite their distance from northern hemisphere centres of chemical r…
Ferdinand von Mueller’s phytochemical laboratory
Victoria’s government botanist and, at the time, Director of the Botanic Garden, Ferdinand von Mueller had a strong interest in the possible industrial and medicinal uses of plant products (economic botany), for which he established a phytochemical laboratory and engaged the services of qualified chemists to conduct experiments on wood distillation, paper-making, essential oils, alkaloids, ash of woods and seaweeds, dyes and tanning materials, an…
Chalk of Fame: A symbiosis of new and old media
In the spring of 2011, the leader of Canada's New Democratic Party, Jack Layton, led his party to Official Opposition status in parliament before succumbing to cancer. An outpouring of elegiac tributes followed, creating a national media moment as stories, images, and information about Layton were shared via a range of social media and widely circulated by mainstream media outlets. However, the most powerful medium – and the one that became the f…
The Trouble with Bromine: Health and Environmental Impacts of Organobromine Compounds
The bromine atom was a definitive constituent of a number of industrial chemicals that were produced in very large quantities and performed useful functions in society until unexpected environmental impacts emerged and international actions were taken to curb their effects. Change was slow in coming because it took roughly half a century for awareness to bring about change. Ethylene dibromide was a fuel additive that removed lead deposits from in…
Mixed-Tenure Neighbourhoods in London: Policy Myth or Effective Device to Alleviate Deprivation
Social and tenure-mixing policies are recurrently deployed as a means to tackle urban deprivation and reduce social inequalities on both sides of the Atlantic, albeit without sound evidence, with policies often resulting in gentrification, social polarization or dispersal towards peripheral areas. This article explores whether housing-tenure diversification is a device for alleviating deprivation in terms of increasing socioeconomic opportunities…
The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature
From Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood, this is a complete English-language history of Canadian writing in English and French from its beginnings. The multi-authored volume pays special attention to works from the 1960s and after, to multicultural and indigenous writing, popular literature, and the interaction of anglophone and francophone cultures throughout Canadian history. Established genres such as fiction, drama and poetry are discussed…
The Overseas Chinese of South East Asia: History, Culture, Business
The 60million Chinese who live outside of China have long been an economic powerhouse in their own right. Managing in South-East Asia is not like managing anywhere else. This book describes their comm
Flash Trash
All Environmental Politics is Local
Profile 1 - The Global Compact: Promoting Corporate Responsibility? Profile 2 - The Creation of the United Nations Forum on Forests Profile 3 - The rBST Ban - A Taste of What's to Come for GM Foods? P…
(2001). Profile 1 - The Global Compact: Promoting Corporate Responsibility? Profile 2 - The Creation of the United Nations Forum on Forests Profile 3 - The rBST Ban - A Taste of What's to Come for GM Foods? Profile 4 - Managing Waste Organochlorine Chemicals in Australia. Environmental Politics: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 155-177
Strategic Planning--is it war by other means
The Development of Chemical Industries in Australia and Canada 1850-1950
The Development of Chemical Industries in Australia and Canada 1850-1950. Un article de la revue Scientia Canadensis (Dominions Apart: Reflections on the Culture of Science and Technology in Canada and Australia 1850-1945) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Let's Have More Borodin
I found the Kauffman-Bumpass article on Aleksandr Borodin, published in your last issue (Leonardo 21, No. 4, 429-436, 1988), extremely interesting. The authors covered their title material thoroughly and left me with two questions which I think could be the stimulus for more research into the life and work of this fascinating man. The questions are What effect did Borodin's illegitimacy have on him? and What influence did his
Mixed-Tenure Neighbourhoods in London: Policy Myth or Effective Device to Alleviate Deprivation
Social and tenure-mixing policies are recurrently deployed as a means to tackle urban deprivation and reduce social inequalities on both sides of the Atlantic, albeit without sound evidence, with policies often resulting in gentrification, social polarization or dispersal towards peripheral areas. This article explores whether housing-tenure diversification is a device for alleviating deprivation in terms of increasing socioeconomic opportunities…
Profile 1 - The Global Compact: Promoting Corporate Responsibility? Profile 2 - The Creation of the United Nations Forum on Forests Profile 3 - The rBST Ban - A Taste of What's to Come for GM Foods? P…
(2001). Profile 1 - The Global Compact: Promoting Corporate Responsibility? Profile 2 - The Creation of the United Nations Forum on Forests Profile 3 - The rBST Ban - A Taste of What's to Come for GM Foods? Profile 4 - Managing Waste Organochlorine Chemicals in Australia. Environmental Politics: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 155-177
Strategic Planning--is it war by other means
Let's Have More Borodin
I found the Kauffman-Bumpass article on Aleksandr Borodin, published in your last issue (Leonardo 21, No. 4, 429-436, 1988), extremely interesting. The authors covered their title material thoroughly and left me with two questions which I think could be the stimulus for more research into the life and work of this fascinating man. The questions are What effect did Borodin's illegitimacy have on him? and What influence did his
The Development of Chemical Industries in Australia and Canada 1850-1950
The Development of Chemical Industries in Australia and Canada 1850-1950. Un article de la revue Scientia Canadensis (Dominions Apart: Reflections on the Culture of Science and Technology in Canada and Australia 1850-1945) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Strategic Planning--is it war by other means
Profile 1 - The Global Compact: Promoting Corporate Responsibility? Profile 2 - The Creation of the United Nations Forum on Forests Profile 3 - The rBST Ban - A Taste of What's to Come for GM Foods? P…
(2001). Profile 1 - The Global Compact: Promoting Corporate Responsibility? Profile 2 - The Creation of the United Nations Forum on Forests Profile 3 - The rBST Ban - A Taste of What's to Come for GM Foods? Profile 4 - Managing Waste Organochlorine Chemicals in Australia. Environmental Politics: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 155-177
All Environmental Politics is Local
The Overseas Chinese of South East Asia: History, Culture, Business
The 60million Chinese who live outside of China have long been an economic powerhouse in their own right. Managing in South-East Asia is not like managing anywhere else. This book describes their comm
Flash Trash
The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature
From Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood, this is a complete English-language history of Canadian writing in English and French from its beginnings. The multi-authored volume pays special attention to works from the 1960s and after, to multicultural and indigenous writing, popular literature, and the interaction of anglophone and francophone cultures throughout Canadian history. Established genres such as fiction, drama and poetry are discussed…
Mixed-Tenure Neighbourhoods in London: Policy Myth or Effective Device to Alleviate Deprivation
Social and tenure-mixing policies are recurrently deployed as a means to tackle urban deprivation and reduce social inequalities on both sides of the Atlantic, albeit without sound evidence, with policies often resulting in gentrification, social polarization or dispersal towards peripheral areas. This article explores whether housing-tenure diversification is a device for alleviating deprivation in terms of increasing socioeconomic opportunities…
Chalk of Fame: A symbiosis of new and old media
In the spring of 2011, the leader of Canada's New Democratic Party, Jack Layton, led his party to Official Opposition status in parliament before succumbing to cancer. An outpouring of elegiac tributes followed, creating a national media moment as stories, images, and information about Layton were shared via a range of social media and widely circulated by mainstream media outlets. However, the most powerful medium – and the one that became the f…
The Trouble with Bromine: Health and Environmental Impacts of Organobromine Compounds
The bromine atom was a definitive constituent of a number of industrial chemicals that were produced in very large quantities and performed useful functions in society until unexpected environmental impacts emerged and international actions were taken to curb their effects. Change was slow in coming because it took roughly half a century for awareness to bring about change. Ethylene dibromide was a fuel additive that removed lead deposits from in…
Ferdinand von Mueller’s phytochemical laboratory
Victoria’s government botanist and, at the time, Director of the Botanic Garden, Ferdinand von Mueller had a strong interest in the possible industrial and medicinal uses of plant products (economic botany), for which he established a phytochemical laboratory and engaged the services of qualified chemists to conduct experiments on wood distillation, paper-making, essential oils, alkaloids, ash of woods and seaweeds, dyes and tanning materials, an…
Responses by Australian pharmacologists to respiratory depression caused by opiates and barbiturates
In the middle of the last century, pharmacologists at the University of Melbourne led by Professor Frank Shaw inadvertently discovered that an amino-acridine they were using in other experiments reversed the respiratory depressive effects of morphine. They widened their search for such activity, experimenting with a range of heterocyclic substances and achieving success with a thiazole derivative, provided to them by the Professor of Organic Chem…
Hans Charles Freeman 1929–2008
Hans Freeman was born in Germany and arrived in Australia with his parents in 1938. A brilliant student at the University of Sydney, he spent a seminal year at the California Institute of Technology before joining the staff at Sydney and initiating research on bioinorganic chemistry, studying metal ion complexes of compounds of biological significance such as amino acids, peptides and proteins. In his use of X-ray crystallography he was a pioneer…
Practising organometallic chemistry in nineteenth century Australia: David Orme Masson and diethyl magnesium
By the late 1880s, the existence of alkyl derivatives of metals such as zinc and mercury was well established but diethyl magnesium had been poorly characterised and obtaining proof of its existence was a reasonable aim for chemists. Professor David Orme Masson and his student, Norman Wilsmore, at the university in the British colonial capital, Melbourne, accepted the challenge despite their distance from northern hemisphere centres of chemical r…
Editors’ page
Historical Records of Australian Science publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the history of science and scientists in Australia and the southwest Pacific, biographical memoirs of deceased Fellows of the Academy, and an annual bibliography of the history of Australian science
John Atherton Young 1936–2004
John Atherton Young (1936–2004) graduated in medicine at the University of Queensland and undertook research in physiology at the Kanematsu Institute in Sydney for which he was awarded his PhD. After postdoctoral studies in Germany, he joined the department of physiology at the University of Sydney, rising to professor, then Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and finally Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Health Sciences. His research on the physiology of epit…
Rupert Horace Myers 1921–2019
Sir Rupert Horace Myers (1921–2019) was born in Melbourne and educated at Melbourne Boys High School and the University of Melbourne, where he was awarded a PhD degree in 1948 for research on the production of rare metals from Australian ores. As part of an Australian delegation, he worked at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell in the United Kingdom on production of uranium and plutonium metals. He returned to Australia in 1952 as…
Editors’ Page
A decade ago, two new editors took over
Noel Sydney Hush (1924–2019)
Noel Hush left Sydney with his MSc in 1949 to work in Manchester, and then Bristol, before returning to the University of Sydney in 1971 as the inaugural professor of theoretical chemistry, the first such chair in Australia. His students and collaborators occupy senior positions in Australian and international universities. With theoreticians and experimentalists he researched electron transfer in electrochemical changes, between metal ions, in c…
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