Kenton Stewart Wall Campbell 1927–2017

A career of almost seventy years positioned Ken Campbell as one of the most outstanding researchers in Australian palaeontology during the twentieth century. He published widely on a range of palaeontological subjects, mastering the complex morphology and taxonomy of several fossil invertebrate groups including brachiopods, corals, ammonoids, and trilobites, as well as various groups of specialised early vertebrates (lungfishes, onychodontids, stem-tetrapods, actinopterygians). He was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 1983. Ken Campbell was a man of deep personal beliefs, integrity, and great depth of character. He was an excellent teacher, and a mentor to many successful students of geology and palaeontology, who themselves went on to make major scientific contributions both in this country and overseas.