Corrigendum to: John Atherton Young 1936–2004

This article corrects Historical Records of Australian Science [Published 29 May 2024] doi:10.1071/HR24007

The author wishes to advise of two errors in the published biographical memoir of John Atherton Young.

In the final sentence of the first paragraph under ‘University of Sydney’, Maynard Case’s visit to Sydney preceded John Atherton Young’s. The correct text should read:

With his student W. E. Sewell he applied the techniques developed in his Sydney laboratory to the rat pancreas, and this led to a fruitful collaboration with Maynard Case (1943–) at the University of Manchester where Young spent a period of sabbatical leave in 1981, with Case who had worked with him in Sydney in 1977.

In the final sentence of the last paragraph under ‘Personal life’, there was an incorrect reference to Young’s ‘wife’s’ family. Young was openly gay and had a long-term male partner. The correct text should read:

During that time he also turned his attention to a member of his mother’s Atherton family, editing the letters of Jane Bardsley (1877–1943), a pioneer settler in north Queensland who was married to Tom Atherton.