Hetzel collection to be established
Update Newsletter number 6
March 2004
A library collection to celebrate the work of one of the world’s most
eminent medical researchers, Dr Basil Hetzel, is to be established by the
University of South Australia at City East.
Dr Hetzel, who was UniSA’s Chancellor from 1992-98, made an enormous
contribution to public heath and academia throughout a career spanning six
decades, most famously through his 1960s research in Papua New Guinea which
identified the association between iodine deficiency and brain damage in
unborn children.
The Basil Hetzel Collection will be fully catalogued online to enable
world-wide access.