Professor Robert Kerford Morton FAA (7 August 1920 – 27 September 1963) was an Australian biochemist.
In 1963 he became Professor of Biochemistry at Adelaide, but died that year as the result of an accident in his laboratory.
Awarded the first Gowrie Travelling Scholarship, he married Jessie Noelle Telfer and they proceeded to the University of Cambridge where in 1952 he was awarded a Ph.D.[2] In 1952 he returned to a Senior Lecturer position at the University of Melbourne where he was rapidly promoted to reader and associate professor.
While at Melbourne he became friends with the head of the biochemistry department, Professor Victor Trikojus.
[2] Morton died in Adelaide on 27 September 1963, at age 44, when a large quantity of acetone he was using in his laboratory exploded.