Graeme Moad, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Graeme Moad

Australian chemist

Date of Birth: 25-Jun-1952

Place of Birth: Orange, New South Wales, Australia

Profession: chemist

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Graeme Moad

  • Graeme Moad is an Australian polymer chemist. He received a Bachelor of Science in 1974 and a Ph.D.
  • in 1977, both from the University of Adelaide.
  • He followed this with postdoctoral research at Pennsylvania State University. In 1979 he joined the CSIRO in Melbourne; 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 David Solomon of the definitive reference book: The Chemistry of Radical Polymerization (Moad & Solomon, 2006).
  • With fellow CSIRO polymer chemists Ezio Rizzardo and San Thang he is a co-developer of the RAFT process. In 2012 he received the Battaerd-Jordan Polymer Medal, and was also elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.In 2014, he shared the ATSE Clunies-Ross Award with San Thang and Ezio Rizzardo.

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