The Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture of the Australian Academy of Science is awarded biennially to recognise exceptional research by Australian scientists in the physical sciences. Nominations can only be made by Academy Fellows.
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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.
Keith Edward Bullen FAA FRS was a New Zealand-born mathematician and geophysicist. He is noted for his seismological interpretation of the deep structure of the Earth's mantle and core. He was Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Sydney in Australia from 1945 until 1971.
Professor Kurt Lambeck AC, FRS, FAA, FRSN is Professor of Geophysics at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. He has also taught at University of Paris and at Smithsonian and Harvard Observatories.
The Pawsey Medal is awarded annually by the Australian Academy of Science to recognize outstanding research in the physics by an Australian scientist early in their career.
William (Bill) Compston FAA, FRS is an Australian geophysicist. He is a visiting fellow at the Australian National University.
Sir Rutherford Ness "Bob" Robertson AC CMG FAA FRS HFRSE was an Australian botanist and biologist, and winner of the Clarke Medal in 1955.
Ross Howard Street is an Australian mathematician specialising in category theory.
Professor Julie Hazel Campbell AO FAA is an Australian vascular biologist from Sydney, Australia. Campbell is a professorial fellow at the Australian Academy of Science and is a world leader in the field of smooth muscle biology and, along with her husband, holds two patents for vascular implant material.
Edmund Alfred Cornish DSc, FAA was one of Australia's eminent mathematicians and statisticians. He was appointed an (inaugural) Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. He worked as the Officer-in-charge in Mathematical Statistics section of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Adelaide from 1941. In 1954 he became the Chief of this division and served till his death in 1973.
Maxwell Frank Cooper Day was an Australian ecologist and the oldest living Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. Born in Sydney, New South Wales, he turned 100 in December 2015. He is well known for his work on myxomatosis and the myxoma virus in the 1940s in conjunction with Professor Frank Fenner.
Albert Lloyd George Rees CBE, DSc, FAA (1916–1989) was an Australian chemical physicist.
Professor Michael Ian Bruce DSc FAA (1938-), born and educated in England, became Professor of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Adelaide in 1973, and was the Angas Professor of Chemistry at the University of Adelaide from 1982 until his retirement in 2009.
Professor Clifford Walter Emmens DSc, Hon DVSc, FAA was an English-born Australian veterinary scientist and biometrician. He was appointed Professor of Veterinary Physiology at the University of Sydney in 1950, and elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1956.
Barry William Ninham AO DSc FAA is an Australian physicist who has received many awards for his research.
David Roderick Curtis AC MB BS PhD FRACP FAA FRS was an Australian pharmacologist and neurobiologist.
James Alexander Angus is an Australian pharmacologist, who has served as the Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria since 12 November 2021.
Marcello Costa is an Italian-born Australian medical researcher, academic, and public health advocate. He specializes in the structure and functions of the enteric nervous system. He taught in Turin, Melbourne, and Helsinki before moving to Adelaide in 1975 where he was a foundation lecturer at the Flinders Medical School, building the new discipline of neuroscience at the college. He was at Flinders University where he held the title of Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Neurophysiology in the Department of Physiology. In 2021 Marcello retired from his position at Flinders University.
Horace Newton Barber FAA FRS was an Australian botanist and geneticist, Foundation Professor of Botany at the University of Tasmania (1947–1963) and Foundation Professor of Botany at the University of New South Wales (1964–1971).
Brian Leslie Norman Kennett is a mathematical physicist and seismologist. He is now a professor emeritus at the Australian National University.