Abstract
[Excerpt] He was always a modest man, but Ken was a genius and the toughest man we knew. He was also extraordinarily generous of spirit. The way he gave of himself, his time, and his hard-won stores of knowledge, was legendary amongst his friends and colleagues. We admired him and we loved him. Ken was a world-renowned comparative anatomist, vertebrate systematist, palaeontologist, and zooarchaeologist. He was a problem solver like few we’ve ever met, and a fieldworker and world traveller par excellence. Ken’s personal and professional outlook embraced the whole world, in all its true facets and flavours, its complexities and eccentricities—he took the world, and all of us in it, as we came. His intellectual reputation extended well beyond Australia and was known to thousands of colleagues who may never have had the chance to meet him.
Highlights
Records of the Australian Museum a peer-reviewed open-access journal published by the Australian Museum, Sydney communicating knowledge derived from our collections
Ken received many accolades across a varied and deeply respected academic and professional career, which included serving as Curator of Herpetology at the Western Australian Museum and as a Research Scientist at the CSIRO
Among his honours were his appointments as Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Smithsonian in Washington DC, as well as receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Australian Museum, an award very rarely bestowed
Summary
Records of the Australian Museum a peer-reviewed open-access journal published by the Australian Museum, Sydney communicating knowledge derived from our collections. Records of the Australian Museum volume 72, issue no. Records of the Australian Museum (2020) vol 72, issue no.
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