Richard Conrad "Con" Cambie (born 1931) is a New Zealand natural products chemist known for his research into bioactive compounds.
[2] He attended Auckland University College, graduating with an MSc with first-class honours in 1955 and a PhD in 1958.
[3] Appointed to the staff of chemistry department at Auckland in 1958,[4] Cambie then studied at the University of Oxford, where he was awarded a DPhil in 1963.
He returned to the University of Auckland and, following the retirement of Bob Briggs in 1969, he was appointed to a professorial chair.
[8] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1966,[9] and the following year he was awarded the society's Hector Medal, New Zealand's highest science honour at that time.