Max Marginson

Max Marginson was a biochemist at Melbourne University. He had a long association with the Australian Book Review, both as editor and reviewer, and played an important role in helping Overland to continue after the death of Stephen Murray-Smith.

Max Marginson reviews ‘Donald Thomson’s Mammals and Fishes of Northern Australia’ by Joan M. Dixon and Linda Huxley

June 1986, no. 81 • 01 June 1986

Donald Thomson was an altogether extraordinary man. We are fortunate that at last some of his great legacy to us is being published. It was my recent fascinated delight to read his Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land (Currey O’Neil, 1983) and now, only a few weeks later, to find this equally fascinating book on my plate for a short review. I knew him, although not well, when he and an assistant and hi ... (read more)

Max Marginson reviews 'Chemistry in the Market Place' by Ben Selinger

September 1978, no. 4 • 16 September 2022

Since its publication in 1975, Chemistry in the Market Place has gone through three impressions of the first edition and now has been expanded into a larger second edition. Successive chapters are labelled ‘Chemistry in the Laundry’, ‘in the Kitchen’, ‘in the Boudoir’, ‘in the Garden’, ‘the Chemistry of Hard and Soft Ware’ (plastics, fibres, fabrics and flammability, popular pr ... (read more)