Australia Day honours: Obesity expert John Funder sees hope for 'Eureka' medication

By Lawrence Money
Updated January 26 2015 - 10:13am, first published 12:25am

There was a time when obesity expert Professor John Funder had a ready-made measure of his own dimensions – the dinner suit passed on to him by his late maternal grandfather Stan Watson. "I am a bit taller than him so I had to wear long black socks to avoid showing a bit of leg," says Professor Funder who has become a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for eminent service to medicine. "Stan Watson was an engineer who built the piers from which the Anzacs evacuated from Gallipoli."

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