Pansy: A Life of Roy Douglas Wright

by Peter McPhee

A stirrer and shaker . a boat-rocker and a confounded nuisance.
Geoffrey Serle

Roy Douglas ('Pansy') Wright was one of the great Australians of the twentieth century.

Born on a hill-country farm in northern Tasmania in 1907, he became an extraordinarily successful medical scientist and a builder of institutions such as the Australian National University, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Clinic and the Howard Florey Institute. He was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522846262
• ISBN13: 9780522846263
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Melbourne University
• Length: 352 Pages