Australia Prize
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The Australia Prize was Australia
's pre-eminent prize for scientific research from 1990 until 2000, when it was replaced by the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science
. The award was international, 10 of the 28 recipients were not Australians.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
's pre-eminent prize for scientific research from 1990 until 2000, when it was replaced by the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science
Prime Minister's Prizes for Science
The Prime Minister's Prizes for Science are an annual Australian award for outstanding achievements in science and science teaching. The prizes have been awarded since 2000, when they replaced the Australia Prize for science...
. The award was international, 10 of the 28 recipients were not Australians.
Recipients
- 1999 - Energy science and technology theme - Martin A. Green and Stuart R. WenhamStuart WenhamStuart Wenham is the current director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Silicon Photovoltaics and Photonics and Director of Academic Studies of the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering at the University of New South Wales. Dr...
- 1998- Molecular science theme - Elizabeth BlackburnElizabeth BlackburnElizabeth Helen Blackburn, AC, FRS is an Australian-born American biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the...
, Suzanne CorySuzanne CorySuzanne Cory, AC, FAA, FRS is an Australian biologist.Cory is the current President of the Australian Academy of Science. She is the first-elected female President of the Academy and took office on 7 May 2010 for a five year term...
, Alec JeffreysAlec JeffreysSir Alec John Jeffreys, FRS is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used all over the world in forensic science to assist police detective work, and also to resolve paternity and immigration disputes...
and Grant Sutherland - 1997 - Telecommunications theme- Allan SnyderAllan SnyderAllan Whitenack Snyder is the director of the Centre for the Mind at the University of Sydney, Australia where he also holds the 150th Anniversary Chair of Science and the Mind...
, Rodney Tucker and Gottfried UngerboeckGottfried UngerboeckGottfried Ungerboeck is an Austrian communications engineer.Ungerboeck received an electrical engineering degree from Vienna University of Technology in 1964, and a Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, in 1970... - 1996 - Pharmaceutical design theme - Paul JanssenPaul JanssenPaul Adriaan Jan, Baron Janssen was the founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica, a pharmaceutical company with over 20,000 employees. In 2005 he finished as runner up, after Father Damien, in the poll for The Greatest Belgian organized by the regional Flemish television...
, Graeme Laver, Peter Colman and Mark von Itzstein - 1995 - Remote sensing theme - Ken McCracken, Andrew Green, Jonathon Huntington, Richard MooreRichard MooreRichard Moore may refer to:People:* Richard Moore , English actor known for playing Jarvis Skelton on ITV's Emmerdale* Richard Moore , Episcopal bishop of America...
- 1994 - Sustainable land management theme - Eugene Likens
- 1993 - Sensory perception theme - Horace BarlowHorace BarlowHorace Basil Barlow FRS is a British visual neuroscientist.Barlow is the son of the civil servant Sir Alan Barlow and his wife Lady Nora, , and thus the great-grandson of Charles Darwin . He earned an M.D...
, Peter BishopPeter BishopPeter Bishop is a fictional character on the Fox television series Fringe. He is portrayed by Joshua Jackson.-Fictional character biography:...
and Vernon MountcastleVernon MountcastleVernon Benjamin Mountcastle is Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University.He discovered and characterized the columnar organization of the cerebral cortex in the 1950s... - 1992 - Mining or processing of mineral resources theme - John Watt, Brian Sowerby, Nicholas Cutmore and Jim HowarthJim HowarthJames Eugene Howarth is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. He played all or part of four seasons in the majors, from and , for the San Francisco Giants.-Sources:...
- 1991 - No Awards presented
- 1990 - Agriculture or the environment theme - Allen KerrAllen KerrDr. Allen Kerr AO, FRS, FAA was a Scottish-born Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Adelaide. His most significant work was his study of crown gall - a plant cancer induced by Agrobacterium tumerfaciens....
, Eugene Nester and Jeff Schell