Summary
Dr Gideon Polya published some 130 works in a 5 decade scientific career as a biochemist, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London , 2003). He retired as an Associate Professor in Biochemistry in 2003 but since then has been giving Introductory Biochermistry courses, in recent years to second year Agricultural Science students (theory lecture course and laboratory practical class course). He has recently published “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007) and contributed “Australian complicity in Iraq mass mortality” in “Lies, Deep Fries & Statistics” (edited by Robyn Williams, ABC Books, Sydney, 2007) and “Ongoing Palestinian Genocide” in “The Plight of the Palestinians (edited by William Cook, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010). He has just published a revised and updated 2008 version of his 1998 book “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne) as biofuel-, globalization- and climate change-driven global food price increases threaten a greater famine catastrophe than the man-made famine in British-ruled India that killed 6-7 million Indians in the “forgotten” World War 2 Bengal Famine (see recent BBC broadcast "Bengal Famine" involving Dr Polya, Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen and others). When words fail one can say it in pictures - see images of Gideon Polya's huge paintings for the Planet, Peace, Mother and Child on Flickr.
Experience
- Cessional Lecturer in Biochemistry for Agricultural Science, La Trobe University – present
- Lecturer & thence Senior Lecturer & Reader in Biochemistry, La Trobe University 1972 – 2003
Education
- Flinders University of South Australia, PhD in Biochemistry, 1969