Richard Alan Fox is an Australia

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n medical physician. He was the son of Alan Fox

Alan Fox

Alan Fox DFM was an English industrial sociologist, who revolutionised the separate discipline of industrial relations, which is also known as employment relations, labor relations and workplace relations....

, a businessman, and Rosalind Nee Morris.

He attended Aquinas College, Perth

Aquinas College, Perth

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, the University of Western Australia

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 and the University of Oxford

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. From 1970-1974 he was a Research Fellow in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Sussex

University of Sussex

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 and then for next four years a Scientific Assistant at the Institute of Cancer Research

Institute of Cancer Research

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 with the status of Lecturer at the University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

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In 2000 he became the Vice Chairman of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine.