Graeme Moad (born 25 June 1952) is an

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polymer chemist Polymer chemistry is a sub-discipline of chemistry that focuses on the structures, chemical synthesis, and chemical and physical properties of polymers and macromolecules. The principles and methods used within polymer chemistry are also applicabl ...

Education and career

Moad received a Bachelor of Science in 1974 and a Ph.D. in 1977, both from the

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. He followed this with postdoctoral research at

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. In 1979 he joined the

CSIRO The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency that is responsible for scientific research and its commercial and industrial applications. CSIRO works with leading organisations arou ...

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; CSIRO is Australia's largest scientific research organisation. He has made substantial contributions to the theory of free radical polymerization, and he was co-author with

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of the definitive reference book: The Chemistry of Radical Polymerization (Moad & Solomon, 2006). With fellow CSIRO polymer chemists Ezio Rizzardo and

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he is a co-developer of the RAFT process.

Honours and awards

In 2012 Moad received the Battaerd-Jordan Polymer Medal, and was also elected a

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. In 2020 he was awarded their David Craig Medal and Lecture. In 2014, he shared the ATSE Clunies-Ross Award with San Thang and Ezio Rizzardo. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2021. Moad was appointed Companion of the

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(AC) in the

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for "eminent service to science, particularly polymer design and synthesis and radical polymerization, education through mentoring, and to professional scientific organisations". He was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

in 2023.

References

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