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John Reader Hosking (11 July 1896 – 14 October 1946) was a New Zealand natural products chemist.


Biography

The son of John Henry Hosking, a judge, Hosking was born in Dunedin in 1896. He was part of the 5th (Wellington) Regiment in the Samoan Advance Party at the outbreak of
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. He rejoined the effort via the Australian forces in Sydney as an Acting Bombardier. He gained a
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from
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, graduating in 1927. In 1930 Hosking returned to New Zealand from Europe and started working at the
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. Hosking won the Hector Medal, the highest award of the
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in 1937, the award was forwarded to him in the United Kingdom, where he had returned. Hosking died on 14 October 1946 at his home in Hedgerley, Buckinghamshire.


References

1896 births 1946 deaths Scientists from Dunedin New Zealand chemists New Zealand military personnel of World War I Australian military personnel of World War I People associated with Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Zealand) New Zealand academics lacking usual sources 20th-century New Zealand scientists {{NewZealand-academic-bio-stub