Vale Peter Steele Clezy: a leader in porphyrin chemistry

摘要

Peter Clezy was born in Melbourne on 21 January 1930, but at the age of 10 he moved with his family to Hobart (his father was a bank clerk). He matriculated from Hobart High School where he was a class captain and head prefect, and went to the University of Tasmania in 1947, with the intention of completing a medical degree. In those days, a first year start could be made in Hobart, but the medical degree had to be completed in Melbourne. Peter did well in chemistry, botany and physics but failed zoology, so repeated the year, as that was the requirement for entry into medicine.