Dr antony kidman biography

Australian academic (1938–2014)

Antony David KidmanAM (10 December 1938 – 12 September 2014) was an Australianpsychologist and academic.

He was the father of actress Nicole Kidman and journalist Antonia Kidman.

Early life and education

Kidman was born in Randwick and grew up in North Sydney,^[1] the oldest of four children, to Margaret Emily Mary (Callachor) and Arthur David Kidman.^[2] He was of Scottish descent.^[3]

Kidman attended St Aloysius' College and then completed a Bachelor of Science at the University of Sydney and a Master of Science at the University of New South Wales.^[1] He accepted an American Cancer Society Scholarship and undertook a PhD in biochemistry at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.^[1]

Career

In the late 1960s, Kidman moved to Washington, D.C., to work at the National Institute of Mental Health at St.

Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital. He returned to Australia in the early 1970s to ta