Maxwell Frank Cooper Day (21 December 1915 – 31 July 2017) was an Australian ecologist and the oldest living Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. Born in

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, New South Wales, he

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in December 2015. He is well known for his work on myxomatosis and the myxoma virus in the 1940s in conjunction with Professor Frank Fenner. Maxwell Frank Cooper Day
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It's an Honour, 6 June 1977 Centenary Medal
It's an Honour, 1 January 2001. "For service to Australian society and science. Day studied science at the University of Sydney, graduating BSc and being awarded the university medal in 1937. He completed a

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in 1941 as a Lehman Fellow, and worked for the Australian Government in Washington DC where he joined

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in 1944. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1956. He served as the first Chief of the

Division of Forest Research from 1976 to 1980. His last published work was written when he was aged 97. He died aged 101 on 31 July 2017 in

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