Jim Peacock
Scientist, Award Winner
1937 –
Who is Jim Peacock?
William James Peacock AC was Chief Scientist of Australia, President of the Australian Academy of Science and Chief of CSIRO Plant Industry.
Peacock was born in Leura, New South Wales and educated at the University of Sydney where he studied botany and zoology and gained a PhD in genetics. He followed this with post doctoral positions in genetics at the University of Oregon in Eugene and molecular biology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, before returning to Australia to work with the CSIRO.
Dr Peacock is a Member of the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council and the National Innovation Council and has served on the Australian Research Council Grants Committee, the Australian Science, Technology and Engineering Council and the Academy of Science's Committee on Recombinant DNA Molecules. In 2000, Dr Peacock was joint recipient of the inaugural Prime Minister’s Prize for Science.
Dr Peacock has had a distinguished career in science and has received many honours.
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