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METROFYI a THC AOS MONDAY 5 MAY 1997 0 Obituary A question tor FfcC icj cncza 'i Leader in the study of the brain Chronicles Birthday 1S1B-1M3: Karl Marx, German socialist lM2-ltBa: Sir Douglas Mawson, Britlsh-bom explorer 1M2: Tammy wyhette, US singer Annlvrsarlss 1S21: France's Napoleon Bonaparte dies In exile on Island of St Helena. 1906: Melbourne's first electric trams begin running, from St Kilda to Brighton. 1957: Death of Reverend John Flynn, founder of Royal Flying Doctor Vice-Ratal notss State: Yesterday, the Governor, Sir James Gobbo, and Lady Gobbo attended a lecture by Professor Timothy Vterdon, "The Programme of the Baptistry Mosaics of St Mark's Basilica in at the National Gallery of Victoria. They also attended the finals of the Covent Garden National Opera Studio Scholarship at CUB Malthouse, Melbourne. Curiosities SERENDIPITY the gift of making -fortunate discoveries was coined by the author Horace Walpole (1717-97).

-Linda and Roger Flavell's Dictionary of Word Origins: "In a letter Walpole described how he came to Invent the -word 'I once read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes ofSerendip; as -their highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accldents-and sagacity One of them that a mule blind of the right eye had travelled the same road lately, grass was eaten only on the left side; Now do you understand Gary Dean Muslim prayer times 9 3 i pi iff 11 He accepted a post at the Institute for Biological Medical Research at the American Medical Association in Chicago. In America Sir lohn continued to delight as well as occasionally perplex the public at large. "There is no such thing as taste or light or color in the world," he told an interviewer. "These are just electromagnetic vibrations, ordinary photons." People's perception of them as light or color or sound or smell or taste or pain was "created out of brain events by some mysterious process that we don't The final stage of Sir John's odyssey began when he was invited to become distinguished professor of physiology and biophysics at the State University of New York. In 1975, at the age of 72, he retired to Locarno, Switzerland, to continue writing.

Sir John was the author of numerous books, including Neurophysiological Basis of the Mind: The Principles of Neuropsychology (1953), The Physiology of Nerve Cells (1957), The Physiology of Synapses (1964), The Cerebellum as a Neuronal Machine (1967) and The Inhibitory Pathways of the Central Nervous System (1969). With Karl Popper he was co-author of Self and its Brain (1977), and contributed more than 350 papers to scientific and professional journals. Sir John was the recipient of many international honors and awards. He was president of the Australian Academy of Science (1957-61) and in 1962 was presented with the gold medal of the Royal Society. The next year he and Sir Norman Gregg became the first fellows of the Australian Postgraduate Federation in Medicine and Sir John was also named Australian of the Year.

He married Irene Miller in 1928; they had four sons and five daughters. The marriage was dissolved. In 1968, he married Helena Taborik, who survives him. James Cunningham jitlr John Carew Ecdes dentist $om: Melbourne, 27 January, 1903 jpied: Contra, Switzerland, 2 May jj.997, aged 94 JjltlR JOHN ECCLES was a giant in the rorld of neuro-physiology and one of Australia's greatest scientists. He won a jSiobel Prize for medicine for his work in demonstrating the transmission of elec-Jtrical impulses in the brain, and was named in a Bicentenary commemora-tive book as one of 200 people who made Australia great.

Described as knowing more about the workings of the brain than anyone who ever lived, Sir John nevertheless insisted that his understanding of the brain and how it evolved did not begin to explain the genesis of human consciousness of self. "I am an evolutionist, of course," Sir John said, "but I don't believe that evolution is the final story. I believe it hasn't solved some fundamental prob-; lems. It doesn't explain the origin of consciousness, even animal consciousness." Sir lohn complained that most texts on evolution had nothing to say about mind and consciousness. "They assume that it comes automatically with the development of the brain.

But that's not an answer." His work in recent decades led him to conclude that evolution alone could not explain human awareness of self; that there must have been the intervention of some transcendental agency in the infu- sion of soul. 1 He went on to hypothesise that the brain and the mind were separate entities that interacted, only the former being the product of genetic evolution. During his long scientific life Sir John concentrated on the study of the mind-brain, a problem that had puzzled humanity for centuries. His special area of interest became the cells that excite, depress or inhibit people. John Carew Eccles was born in and went to school in Melbourne.

In 1925 he graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne and won a Rhodes Scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford. mt bm If 7 i t. I I THINK Melbourne haa lost one of it best-, ij known institutions; whether It wait known for'' IUMwNIiIU vl TV nod or bad, It was definitely known. Pentridge nown Australia-wide, and mavbe further, a correctional facility. Not even Long Bay In Sydney has that f-t kind ot recognition.

I was even recognised by people tn the Prayer times for today, the 27th Dhul Zoulhouja 1417 Hijri: R5.40 am, 7 pm, pm, 1:6.53 pm. 2' Text for today At Oxford in 1927 he took first-class honors in natural sciences and was appointed to a junior research fellowship at Exeter College. In 1929 he gained an MA and Ph and for the next seven years made Oxford his home. In 1937 Eccles relinquished a post as tutoring fellow and demonstrator at Oxford to return to Australia and afterwards to embark on what he referred to as his "Odyssean For six years to 1943 he was director of the Kanematsu Memorial Institute of Pathology at Sydney Hospital. Then he accepted a position as professor of physiology at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

This was followed by a similar appointment to the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University. The Nobel Prize was awarded to him in 1963 for work carried out while at the ANU. Sir John, who had been knighted in 1958, 'generated much controversy in 1966 when, at the age of 63, he resigned from the ANU in protest against a university rule that would have meant his compulsory retirement two years later. street as Demg associated w(Ui fentnage. 1 i 1 I think that notoriety goes back to the Kelly days, and 4 think (Ronald) Ryan made people think twice about capital punishment.

I'd say we've lost an Instifudon and a land-1; mark, but I suppose the prime concern is better care the pnsoners. 1 went out to Pentridge on Thursday and walked around. A tqt of old memories came flooding back, a touch of -sadness, apd thoughts of good friendships that I had out there, on both sides of the fence. Some of the finest people s' i I've met were out there; It was either a prison uniform or vf 'q prison ofilcer uniform, but some of them were remarkable people, 4 The mind a strange thing, you remember the good things and forget the bad. Father John Brosnan is the former prison chaplain at Pentridge He spoke to Brett Foley.

is' 'l i -1 i' I 1 I The administrators tried to find grounds for charges against Daniel in his conduct of government affairs, but they were. -unable to do so. They could find no corruption in him, because he was -trustworthy and neither corrupt nor negligent. Daniel 6:4 (New International Version) Word a day matters have to do with Obituaries are edited by Peter Schumpeter. Phone: (03) 9601 2595.

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