Marshall Davidson Hatch

Marshall Davidson Hatch (born December 24, 1932 in Perth ) is an Australian biochemist and plant physiologist.

Hatch studied biochemistry at the University of Sydney with Frederick Robert Whatley (* 1924) and graduated there in 1954 with a Bachelor of Science with Honors (BSc (Hons)). From 1955 to 1959 he was research scientist at the plant physiology department of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Sydney with Rutherford Ness Robertson (1913-2001). In 1959 he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at the University of Sydney and was then until 1961 Fulbright Fellow with Paul Karl Stumpf (1919–2007) in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of California .

From 1961 to 1966, Hatch worked as Research Officer and Head of Biochemistry at the David North Plant Research Center of Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. in Brisbane (Queensland) with Kenneth T. Glasziou .

In 1967 he was given a lectureship in botany at the University of Queensland and was head of the biochemical department at the David North Plant Research Center from 1968 to 1969. From 1970 he was head of the botanical research department at CSIRO in Canberra .

Together with Charles Roger Slack, Hatch discovered the C4 acid cycle or Hatch-Slack cycle and is the author or co-author of more than 157 scientific papers.

Honors and memberships

1973 - Clarke Medal from the Royal Society of New South Wales
1974 - Lviv Medal from the Australian Biochemical Society
since 1975 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
since 1980 - Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
1980/81 - President of the Australian Society of Plant Physiologists
1990 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1992 - Doctor honoris causa rer. nat. at the University of Göttingen
1993 - Max Planck Research Award (together with Hans-Walter Heldt )

Individual evidence

↑ CR Slack, MD Hatch: Comparative studies on the activity of carboxylases and other enzymes in relation to the new pathway of photosynthetic carbon dioxide fixation in tropical grasses. In: The Biochemical journal. Volume 103, Number 3, June 1967, pp. 660-665, PMID 4292834 , PMC 1270465 (free full text).

personal data
SURNAME	Hatch, Marshall Davidson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian biochemist and plant physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 24, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Perth

[1] CR Slack, MD Hatch: Comparative studies on the activity of carboxylases and other enzymes in relation to the new pathway of photosynthetic carbon dioxide fixation in tropical grasses. In: The Biochemical journal. Volume 103, Number 3, June 1967, pp. 660-665, PMID 4292834 , PMC 1270465 (free full text).