Gideon Polya
Senior Poltical Editor

Gideon Polya was born in Melbourne in 1944 and raised in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. A graduate of the University of Tasmania, he gained a PhD from Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia.

After postdoctoral work at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, he returned to the Australian National University in Canberra  as a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow . He recently retired from a senior position at La Trobe University, Melbourne and is presently a Melbourne-based writer and lecturer. He published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career as a biochemist, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, London & New York, 2003), and is currently writing a book on avoidable global mortality - numerous articles on this and related matters can be found by a simple Google search for "Gideon Polya" and on his website: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gpolya/links.html .  Gideon Polya is married with three children. A keen cartoonist, painter and portraitist, he has published numerous cartoons (including cartoon illustrations for a statistics textbook), has painted about a thousand paintings (abstract figurative and landscapes) and has drawn thousands of portraits.

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