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Record W1985646024 · doi:10.1071/hr09006

Geoffrey Donald Thorburn 1930–1996

2009· article· en· W1985646024 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueHistorical Records of Australian Science · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicBirth, Development, and Health
Canadian institutionsMichael Smith Health Research BC
FundersMonash UniversityUniversity of New South WalesCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
KeywordsBiographyObituaryOfficerHistory of scienceMemoirPhysiologyGerontologyClassicsHistoryMedicineArt historyLawPolitical sciencePhilosophy

Abstract

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Professor Geoffrey Donald Thorburn AO passed away on 28 October 1996. He graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney in 1956 and began his scientific career as a cardiovascular-renal physiologist. His career, in which he undertook pioneering research and teaching in many fields of physiology, spanned 35 years and three continents. He is recognised internationally as one of the founders of contemporary fetal physiology research. He was Head of the Department of Physiology at Monash University from 1981 until his retirement in 1995, but continued active research right up until his death. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1995 'for service to medicine and research in the field of fetal physiology'. Geoff was a wonderful mentor and friend to all who were touched by him. He was an outstanding scientist and academic.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.598
Threshold uncertainty score0.555

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.057
GPT teacher head0.339
Teacher spread0.282 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it