David Parry (biophysicist)

David Anthony Dougall Parry CNZM is a New Zealand biophysicist known for his work within the area of ultrastructure scleroprotein analysis.

In the 2007 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to biophysics.

He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Protein Chemistry division at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Melbourne, Australia from 1966 to 1969.

From 1969 to 1971 he worked for the Children's Cancer Research Foundation in Boston, Massachusetts.

Later he became a research scientist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics at Oxford University from 1971 to 1973.