List of Old Boys of Sydney Boys High School - Medicine and Science

Medicine and Science

• Prof John Robert Anderson — chemist whose research specialised on materials science.
• Dr. Nikos Athanasou, Professor of Musculoskeletal Pathology at Oxford.
• Emeritus Professor Henry H. Bauer — professor of chemistry and science studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ("Virginia Tech").
• Dr. Ronald N. Bracewell AO— Lewis M. Terman Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus of the Space, Telecommunications and Radioscience Laboratory at Stanford University
• Dr. Graeme Milbourne Clark AC AO — pioneer of the multiple-channel cochlear implant; founder of the Bionic Ear Institute; Fellow of the Royal Society, Australian Father Of The Year award (2004), recipient of the Centenary Medal 2003
• Dr. Frank Cotton — lecturer in physiology, specialising in the study of the effects of physical strain on the human body, widely considered to be the 'Father of Sport Science' in Australia.
• Sir John Cornforth AC CBE FRS — Nobel Laureate for Chemistry (1975)
• Emeritus Professor Hans Charles Freeman AM FAA — metalloprotein crystallographer and bio-inorganic chemist who established and developed the field of crystallography in Australia
• Dr. Hans Freeman AM FAA — bioinorganic chemist, protein crystallographer, and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
• Sir Henry Harris — professor of medicine at the University of Oxford, pioneering work on cancer and human genetics in the 1960s
• Dr. Herbert Huppert — wildly published geophysicist, Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and Foundation Director, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Cambridge University, since 1989 and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, since 1970.
• Dr. Kelvin Lancaster —mathematical economist and John Bates Clark professor of economics at Columbia University. He is best known for the development of the Theory of the Second Best with Richard Lipsey
• Sir Michael Marmot — professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London
• Sir Charles George McDonald CBE KCMG KSG — physician and chancellor of University of Sydney (1964-1969)
• Sir John Madsen — Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
• Lord Robert May, Baron May of Oxford OM, AC, FRS — former President of the Royal Society, Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government (1995–2000)
• Prof Kenneth Minogue political theorist and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Honorary Fellow at the London School of Economics.
• Sir Harry Cuthbertson Moxham — President of the Federal Dental Association
• John Passmore AC — Philosopher
• Dr. John D. Pollard FRACP FRCP (Lund) AO — Professor of Neurology at the University of Sydney, former Chair of Executive and Head, Department of Medicine, University of Sydney
• Edwin Ernest Salpeter FRS — astrophysicist, Karl Schwarzschild Medalist, Bruce Medalist and Hans Bethe Prize Winner
• Sir Grafton Elliot Smith FRS FRCP — anatomist and a proponent of the hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory.
• Sir George Stenning — Chief Executive of Order of St John of Jerusalem
• Dr. Bruce William Stillman AO, FAA, FRS — biochemist and cancer researcher
• Dr. Frederick Oscar Stephens AM, MD (Syd), M.S. FRCS (Ed), FACS, FRACS — former Professor of Surgical Oncology and Head of Department of Surgery, The University of Sydney and RPA Hospital. Pioneered day surgery in 1961, and later, regional chemotherapy and the discipline of surgical oncology.
• Dr. Alfred van der Poorten — number theorist and former president of the Australian Mathematical Society
• Prof Walter Lawry Waterhouse — agricultural scientist, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and Clark Medallist
• Professor Walter George Woolnough — geologist and Clark Medallist
• Dr. Sydney Edward Wright — academic pharmacist