David Anthony Dougall Parry is a New Zealand

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known for his work within the area of

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analysis. He is the former President of the International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics and former Vice President of the

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(ICSU). His awards include an ICI Prize (1981), Fellow of the

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(1989), the Hercus Medal (2000), the Shorland Medal (2006), and the Rutherford Medal (2008). In the

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, he was appointed a

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, for services to biophysics. In 2010 he was awarded the

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Medal. Parry has a

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(1963) and a

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(1982) from the

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and a

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(1966) from

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. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Protein Chemistry division at the

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from 1966 to 1969. From 1969 to 1971 he worked for the Children's Cancer Research Foundation in

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. Later he became a research scientist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics at

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from 1971 to 1973. He then worked for many years on the faculty of

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New Zealand Association of Scientists Shorland Medal 2006
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