Obituaries
Author told story of courtship between her mother and father Barnes Wallis
Teenage daughter of Barnes Wallis watched him play a version of ducks and drakes.
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Noel Hush: chemist with international reputation
Hush was founding professor of the Department of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Sydney.
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Fertility expert Professor Ian Craft, Mac Rebennack singer-songwriter known as Dr John, Terese Hayden produced actors' directory.
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Dr. John, musician who embodied New Orleans, dies at 77
The legendary pianist, singer, songwriter and producer belonged to the pantheon of New Orleans keyboard wizards
- by Gavin Edwards
Ella Ebery: rural journalism pioneer
Ella Ebery, who died on May 16, aged 103, was a shearer's wife and cook who realised late in life – too late, she always said – that she could be more than a wife and a cook.
- by James Button
Champion of public service broadcasting
Stuart Revill, former assistant managing director of the ABC and life-long champion of public service broadcasting, has died in Sydney, aged 90.
- by Stephen Revill and Kate Mannix
Tony Horwitz: One of the Good Ones
He was one of the good ones. And now he has gone, the mischievous mensch, at an unthinkable sixty.
- by Andrew Denton
In Passing
Son of Hitler's foreign minister, Rudolf von Ribbentrop; Edward Seaga Jamaica prime minister; Nan Winton first female BBC newsreader
Surgeon who gave a baby a baboon's heart
“I wondered if the doctor was a mad scientist,” Ms Beauclair said in the 2009 documentary Stephanie’s Heart: The Story of Baby Fae.
Eric Vance: scientific leadership and achievement
Dr Eric Raymond Vance, Lou to most of his friends and colleagues, was born in Ararat Hospital on November 15, 1942, and died at Calvary Hospital, Kogarah, Sydney, on March 7, 2019. His scientific leadership and achievements earned great respect and admiration world-wide.
Jonathan 'Jack' Taylor: Pioneer of dance
Like the fictional Billy Elliot, dance was Taylor’s ticket to a new life.