Related Research Articles
National Living Treasure is a status created and occasionally updated by the National Trust of Australia's New South Wales branch, awarded to up to 100 living people. Recipients were selected by popular vote for having made outstanding contributions to Australian society in any field of human endeavour.
WEHI, previously known as the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, and as the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, is Australia's oldest medical research institute. Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, who won the Nobel Prize in 1960 for his work in immunology, was director from 1944 to 1965. Burnet developed the ideas of clonal selection and acquired immune tolerance. Later, Professor Donald Metcalf discovered and characterised colony-stimulating factors. As of 2015, the institute hosted more than 750 researchers who work to understand, prevent and treat diseases including blood, breast and ovarian cancers; inflammatory diseases (autoimmunity) such as rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes and coeliac disease; and infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV and hepatitis B and C.
Sir Gustav Victor Joseph Nossal is an Austrian-born Australian research biologist. He is famous for his contributions to the fields of antibody formation and immunological tolerance.
The Australian Academy of Science was founded in 1954 by a group of distinguished Australians, including Australian Fellows of the Royal Society of London. The first president was Sir Mark Oliphant. The Academy is modelled after the Royal Society and operates under a Royal Charter; as such, it is an independent body, but it has government endorsement. The Academy Secretariat is in Canberra, at the Shine Dome.
The Royal Society of New South Wales is a learned society based in Sydney, Australia. The Governor of New South Wales is the vice-regal patron of the Society.
Jacques Francis Albert Pierre Miller AC FRS FAA is a French-Australian research scientist. He is known for having discovered the function of the thymus and for the identification, in mammalian species of the two major subsets of lymphocytes and their function.
[[File:Portrait of Professor Graeme Clarkwg macaroni Wegner.png|thumb|Portrait of Professor Graeme Clark Oil on Canvas 2000 Peter Wegner National Portrait Gallery Australia|300px]] Graeme Milbourne Clark AC is an Australian Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Melbourne. His work in ENT surgery, electronics and speech science contributed towards the development of the multiple-channel cochlear implant. His invention was later produced and sold by Cochlear Limited.
The Royal Society of Victoria (RSV) is the oldest scientific society in the state of Victoria in Australia.
Sir Lawrence James Wackett is widely regarded as "father of the Australian aircraft industry". He has been described as "one of the towering figures in the history of Australian aviation covering, as he did, virtually all aspects of activities: pilot, designer of airframes and engines, entrepreneur and manager". He was knighted for his services to aviation and was a winner of the Oswald Watt Gold Medal. He was also a keen angler and wrote two books on the subject.
The Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) is an organisation that was founded in 1888 as the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science to promote science.
Sir Norman McAlister Gregg, was an Australian ophthalmologist, who discovered that rubella suffered by a pregnant woman could cause birth defects in her child.
Sir Alan Walsh FAA FRS was a British-Australian physicist, originator and developer of a method of chemical analysis called atomic absorption spectroscopy.
Air Vice Marshal Ellis Charles Wackett, CB, CBE was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Its chief engineer from 1935 to 1959, he served on the RAAF's controlling body, the Air Board, for a record seventeen years, and has been credited with infusing operations with new standards of airworthiness. Commencing his service career as a Royal Australian Navy cadet during World War I, Wackett transferred to the Air Force in 1923 while on an engineering course in Britain. He qualified as a pilot before completing his studies and returning to Australia, where he inaugurated parachute instruction within the RAAF and made the country's first freefall descent from a military aircraft in 1926. The following year, he led a three-month survey flight to Papua New Guinea.
The Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus) is a national scientific not-for-profit organisation with a mission to "bring science to people and people to science". It opened in October 2009.
Graeme John Jameson is an engineer, professor and Director of the Centre for Multiphase Processes at the University of Newcastle, Australia, in New South Wales, Australia. He is notable for being the inventor of the Jameson Cell mineral separation device, which he devised in the 1980s. The Jameson Cell uses bubbles to separate super fine particles during mineral processing. It is based on the froth flotation mineral separation process, first invented in 1905.
The Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture is a biennial award given by the Australian Academy of Science to recognise outstanding scientific research in the biological sciences.
References
- ↑ "The James Cook Medal". Royal Society of new South Wales. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
- ↑ "Five UNSW researchers honoured by Royal Society of NSW". Mirage News. 2020-12-10. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
- ↑ "The James Cook Medal". The Royal Society of NSW. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
- ↑ "ACAP Director awarded James Cook Medal". Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
- ↑ "Visionary receives James Cook Medal". BrienHolden Vision Institute. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
- ↑ "Peter Malcolm Colman". CSIRO. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
- ↑ "SVI Patron - Gustav JV Nossal". St Vincents Institute. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
- ↑ "Teacher notes - Professor Graeme Clark". Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
- ↑ "Wackett, Sir Lawrence James (1896–1982)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
- ↑ "History in the Making". Museum Victoria. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
- ↑ Dunn, PM (2007). "Perinatal lessons from the past: Sir Norman Gregg, ChM, MC, of Sydney (1892–1966) and rubella embryopathy". Arch. Dis. Child. Fetal Neonatal Ed. 92: F513–4. doi:10.1136/adc.2005.091405. PMC 2675410 . PMID 17951553.