Graeme Moad
Australian chemist

Graeme Moad

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Australian chemist
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25 June 1952(Orange, City of Orange, New South Wales, Australia)
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University of Adelaide
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Graeme Moad is an Australian polymer chemist.

He received a Bachelor of Science in 1974 and a Ph.D. in 1977, both from the University of Adelaide. He followed this with postdoctoral research at Pennsylvania State University.

In 1979 he joined the CSIRO in Melbourne; CSIRO is Australia's largest scientific research organisation. He has made substantial contributions to the theory of free radical polymerization, and he was co-author with David Solomon of the definitive reference book: The Chemistry of Radical Polymerization (Moad & Solomon, 2006). With fellow CSIRO polymer chemists Ezio Rizzardo and San Thang he is a co-developer of theRAFT process.

In 2012 he received the Battaerd-Jordan Polymer Medal, and was also elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

In 2014, he shared the ATSE Clunies-Ross Award with San Thang and Ezio Rizzardo.