chemistry

John Mattick

John Mattick is a chemistry topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand John Mattick rather than just read about it. In short: John Stanley Mattick (born 1950, Sydney) is an Australian molecular biologist known for his efforts to assign function to non-coding DNA. Mattick was the executive director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research from 2012 to 2018.

Key takeaways

John Mattick belongs to chemistry; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect John Mattick to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of John Mattick from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

John Stanley Mattick (born 1950, Sydney) is an Australian molecular biologist known for his efforts to assign function to non-coding DNA. Mattick was the executive director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research from 2012 to 2018. He joined Genomics England in May 2018 as chief executive officer. In October 2019, he joined the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

Career Mattick received his high school education at St Patrick's College Strathfield. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Sydney and his PhD in biochemistry from Monash University. Subsequently, he worked at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, the CSIRO Division of Molecular Biology in Sydney, and the University of Queensland, where he was based between 1988 and 2012. Mattick has also worked at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Cologne and Strasbourg. He was Foundation Director of the Australian Genome Research Facility, two ARC Special Research Centres and the Institute for Molecular Bioscience. Mattick was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2001 for service to scientific research in the fields of molecular biology, genetics and biotechnology, particularly through the development and administration of research institutes and the Australian Genome Research Facility. In 2007 he was elected an Associate Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation and in 2008 elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. More recently, he was awarded the Julian Wells Medal by the Lorne Genome Society in 2009 and the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) Medal in 2011. He received the HUGO Chen Award for Distinguished Achievement in Genetic and Genomic Research in 2012, the same year he was appointed executive director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. He was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAHMS) in 2015 and was awarded the Lemberg Medal in 2017. In 2019, he won the Advance Global Impact Award. Mattick served as Board Director for Arctoris Ltd, an Oxford-based technology company.

References

External links http://www.hgm2011.org/john_s_mattick.html Archived 7 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20120427170715/http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/3401/full

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with John Mattick

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what John Mattick claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In chemistry, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to John Mattick before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about John Mattick ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of John Mattick

In research: John Mattick appears in chemistry research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses John Mattick in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: John Mattick is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1950 births, Academic staff of the University of Queensland, Australian biochemists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for John Mattick outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study John Mattick in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what John Mattick means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain John Mattick out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

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Why does John Mattick matter?

Because it connects several chemistry ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study John Mattick?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on John Mattick.