John Reader Hosking

John Reader Hosking (11 July 1896 – 14 October 1946) was a New Zealand natural products chemist.

John Reader Hosking
Born	(1896-07-11)11 July 1896 Dunedin, New Zealand
Died	14 October 1946(1946-10-14) (aged 50) Hedgerley, Buckinghamshire, England

Biography

The son of John Henry Hosking, a judge, Hosking was born in Dunedin in 1896.^[1][2] He was part of the 5th (Wellington) Regiment in the Samoan Advance Party at the outbreak of World War I.^[3][4] He rejoined the effort via the Australian forces in Sydney as an Acting Bombardier.^[5]

He gained a PhD from Auckland University College, graduating in 1927.^[6]

In 1930 Hosking returned to New Zealand from Europe and started working at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research under Ernest Marsden.^[7]

Hosking won the Hector Medal, the highest award of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1937,^[8][9] the award was forwarded to him in the United Kingdom, where he had returned.^[10][11]

Hosking died on 14 October 1946 at his home in Hedgerley, Buckinghamshire.^[12]