Professor Desmond Ball, whom US president Jimmy Carter called the academic who saved the world, has died after battling a long illness. During the cold war, Ball advised Carter against launching nuclear strikes on Soviet targets. Afterwards, Carter wrote, “Desmond ...

The most internationally recognised and influential Australian quantitative psychologist of his era, Rod McDonald, has died in a snorkelling accident in Jamaica. Roderick Peter McDonald was born on April 16, 1928, in Sydney. His father was an accountant, his mother a ...