Person

Levick, William Russell (Bill) (1931 - 2022)

FAA FRS

Born
5 December 1931
Died
5 May 2022
Occupation
Medical researcher

Summary

Bill Levick was Professorial Fellow and Personal Chair in Physiology at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. He is now a Visiting Fellow in the Division of Psychology at ANU. His key research interest has been the retinal mechanisms in visual perception, including the organization of visual receptive fields.

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1957 - 1958
Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, New South Wales
1963 - 1964
Career position - CJ Martin Travelling Fellow at the universities of Cambridge (UK) and California (USA)
1965 - 1966
Career position - Associate Research Physiologist at the University of California, USA
1967
Career position - Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney
1967 - 1983
Career position - Professorial Fellow in Physiology at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University in Canberra
1973 -
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1977 -
Award - Fellow, Optical Society of America
1982 -
Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)
1983 -
Career position - Personal Chair in Physiology at the John Curtin School of Medical Research

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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260