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Victor Trikojus lectured in organic chemistry and medical organic chemistry at the University of Sydney from 1928-1943. He then moved to the University of Melbourne where he became Professor and Head of the School of Biochemistry 1943-1968.Full description
Born 5 February 1902. Died 27 January 1985. CBE 1971. Educated Universities of Sydney (BSc 1924) and Oxford (PhD 1926). Laboratorium des Staates, Munich 1927-28, lecturer, Department of Organic chemistry 1928-32, lecturer in medical organic chemistry 1932-43, professor of biochemistry, University of Melbourne 1943-68, Honorary Research Professor, then Honorary Professor 1968-, Senior Visiting Scientist, CSIRO, Prospect, New South Wales and University of Melbourne School of Chemistry 1969-70. Inaugural Chairman, Drug Sub-committee, Australian Association of Scientific Workers 1939-42, Director of Research, Medical Equipment Control Committee 1939-44. H.G. Smith Memorial Medal, Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1945, Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 1954.
Born in Sydney in 1902 and educated at the Universities of Sydney and Oxford, with a year spent in Munich, Trikojus returned to Sydney in 1928 as Lecturer in the Department of Organic Chemistry. He was appointed to the Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Melbourne, occupying it from 1943 until he retired in 1968. He served on numerous scientific bodies and was honoured in 1971 for 'services to science and government' with a C.B.E. He died on 27 January 1985.
Born in Sydney in 1902 and educated at the Universities of Sydney and Oxford, with a year spent in Munich, Trikojus returned to Sydney in 1928 as Lecturer in the Department of Organic Chemistry. He was appointed to the Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Melbourne, occupying it from 1943 until he retired in 1968. He served on numerous scientific bodies and was honoured in 1971 for 'services to science and government' with a C.B.E. He died on 27 January 1985.
Victor Martin Trikojus (1902-1985), professor of biochemistry, was born on 5 February 1902 at Darlinghurst, Sydney, eldest child of Martin August Trikojus, a hairdresser from East Prussia, and his New...
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