Noel Hush

Noel Sydney Hush (* December 15, 1924 in Sydney) is an Australian chemist ( Theoretical Chemistry, Quantum Chemistry ).

Hush studied at the University of Sydney, where he was a Research Fellow from 1946 to 1949. After that, he went to Britain, where he was from 1950 to 1954 Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at the University of Manchester and 1955-1971 first Lecturer and then Reader in Chemistry at the University of Bristol. He is since 1971 Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Sydney ( the first such chair in Australia), where he retired in 1989. In 1965 he was a visiting professor at Florida State University in 1981 and was in Cambridge.

Hush developed in the 1960s, a quantum- mechanical model for electron - transfer reactions (Marcus - Hush theory, in extension of the theory of Rudolph A. Marcus ). He also studied theoretically with photosynthesis and more recently with molecular electronics.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2011) and the Australian Academy of Science (1977 ) and Fellow of the Royal Society (1988 ) and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. He is an officer ( Commander Officer ) of the Order of Australia (1993). In 2007 he received the Welch Award in Chemistry. In 1990 he received the Centenary Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the 1994 Flinders Medal of the Australian Academy of Science.

1984 to 1989 he was a member of the Australian National Committee for Chemistry.