Patrick Desmond Fitzgerald Murray

Murray was born on 18 June 1900 in Dorchester, Dorset, England to Sybil Maud (née Jenkins) and John Hubert Plunkett Murray. His father, John, was at the time in the British Army and later became the Lieutenant-Governor of Territory of Papua. He attended Saint Ignatius' College and then went to the University of Sydney where he received both his baccalaureate and his doctorate. He also received a baccalaureate from Magdalen College, Oxford. ==Career==

Murray's career started upon his return to Sydney in 1924. He was appointed as a Macleay fellow at the Linnean Society of New South Wales. He was also made a lecturer at the University of Sydney. His research largely focused on embryology and morphogenesis in a lab setting. His work at the University of Sydney largely focused around how different parts of chick embryos develop. Specifically, his work focused on the development of single somites, which develop early in embryonic development. He also focused on unsegmented mesoderms and the skeletal development of chicks in the embryonic stage. He accomplished this by using chorioallantonic grafts, which became a signature part of the later work in his career. His work after leaving from the University of Sydney was focused around the development of the heart in the embryonic stages of a chick. ==Personal life==

Murray had no children. Murray had two marriages. His first was to Margery Holland with the wedding in 1925 and ending in 1966 with a dissolution. Later in 1966, he married Jascha Ann Morgan, a university lecturer. He died at sea on 17 May 1967 on board the Achille Lauro en route to Strangeways Laboratory in Cambridge. Murray was a largely private person; however, he did oppose the Communist Party Dissolution Bill 1950 and was in opposition to nuclear weapons. ==References==