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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">To those that have not already heard, I am very sad to be passing on the news that Prof John Douglas “Jack” Pettigrew FRS FAAS died following a car crash in Tasmania yesterday (May 7<sup>th</sup>)
aged 75. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">As a scientist, Jack is probably best known for his work on binocular disparity. However, the breadth and diversity of his additional contributions is truly remarkable. Just considering his multiple
Nature and Science publications his work has spanned everything from his “flying primate hypothesis” through to discoveries of
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Ferromagnetic coupling to muscle receptors as a basis for geomagnetic field sensitivity in animals. More recently he turned his attention to ancient Australian Bradshaw rock art.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">However, his contribution to science goes well beyond his multiple seminal publications. It is extremely hard to express the impact he had on people’s lives. I have been amazed by the number of
people that have extraordinary memories of their friendships and academic encounters with Jack. As a graduate student I remember being introduced as Jack’s student and the odd person might remark vaguely that his name sounded familiar and they may have met
at some point .. a response that was invariably met with laughs - If you can’t remember meeting Jack, then you never met Jack.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">To those that remember him as a friend, I feel compelled to share a few lines of an email that he sent me (and a large list of others cc’d) on Sunday. As I read the email over the weekend it made
me smile to see that Jack was at his enthusiastic best. I have abbreviated this as the actual email was 4 times the length, but all with the same sentiment. I suspect it was one of his final correspondence.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">“These days, when I think of the gestalt of all those Star Wars movies, I think of humankind’s soaring imagination. Is there any limit? Well, I don’t think so, and yesterday I had support
for my conjecture, I highly recommend that you ignore me, and my advice, but nevertheless go and check for yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">I figured that the many millions who had already seen it in the few days since its release could not ALL be wrong, so I went to see the Marvel movie ( not sure of its actual name......might
be Avengers or something). <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">I hate to be an agent for Hollywood, but........... Go see it! ! !<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">I have not laughed or cried so much in such a short time in ages [ ] and I am not even a Marvel genre afficianonado and I am sure that I therefore missed more than half of the prolific one
liners from past movies and past performances of your favourite stars, who seem to be all there, even Aussies !<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">[ ] It is worth going, just to hear this great one liner! “If I tell you what is going to happen, it won’t happen!”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Go see it!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">JD Pettigrew FRS</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Queensland Brain Institute<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Jack you will be missed terribly!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Olivia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">P.S. For those interested in a more detailed biography I recommend this biography written by Don Mitchell in 2011
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1444-0938.2011.00629.x" title="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ayJYCE8knvsz6zVPsN4Pef?domain=onlinelibrary.wiley.com"><span style="color:#954F72">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1444-0938.2011.00629.x</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#2F5597">A/Prof Olivia Carter
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#2F5597">| <b>Perception & Pharmacology Lab<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#2F5597">Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#2F5597">Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#2F5597"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#2F5597">University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#2F5597">Rm: 811 Redmond Barry Building</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#2F5597"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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