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Australia Prize
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. Recipients {{more, :Australia Prize recipients *1999 - Energy science and technology theme - Martin A. Green and Stuart R. Wenham *1998 - Molecular science theme - Elizabeth Blackburn, Suzanne Cory, Alec Jeffreys and Grant Sutherland *1997 - Telecommunications theme- Allan Snyder, Rodney Tucker and Gottfried Ungerboeck *1996 - Pharmaceutical design theme - Paul Janssen, Graeme Laver, Peter Colman and Mark von Itzstein *1995 - Remote sensing theme - Kenneth G. McCracken, Andrew Green, Jonathon Huntington, Richard Moore *1994 - Sustainable land management theme - Gene Likens *1993 - Sensory perception theme - Horace Barlow, Peter Bishop and Vernon Mountcastle *1992 - Mining or processing of mineral resources theme - John Watt, Brian Sow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathon Huntington (born 1983), Australian professional racing driver and team owner of Tekno Autosports
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Jonathon is a given name. It is an often used alternative spelling of "Jonathan", as is " Johnathan". Notable people named Jonathon include: *Jonathon Brandmeier (born 1956), a Chicago radio personality and musician *Jonathon Morris (born 1960), English actor and former television presenter *Jonathon Simmons (born 1989), American professional basketball player *Jonathon Young (born 1973), Canadian actor * Jonathon Porritt (born 1950), a leading British environmentalist and writer *Jonathon Blum (born 1989), American professional ice hockey defenseman, currently playing with HC Sochi of the Kontinental Hockey *Jonathon Webb Jonathon Webb (born 10 December 1983) is an Australian former professional racing driver and team owner of Team Sydney, who once co-drove alongside Fabian Coulthard in the No. 19 Holden ZB Commodore for the Pirtek Enduro Cup. In 2016, Webb and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Schell
Jozef Stefaan "Jeff", Baron Schell (20 July 1935 – 17 April 2003) was a Belgian molecular biologist. Schell studied zoology and microbiology at the University of Ghent, Belgium. From 1967 to 1995 he worked as a professor at the university. From 1978 to 2000 he was director and head of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (Institut für Züchtungsforschung) at the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Cologne, Germany. He received many prizes, among which were the Francqui Prize in 1979, the Wolf Prize in Agriculture in 1990, and the Japan Prize in 1998, which he shared with Marc Van Montagu.Prof. Dr. Jozef S. Schell japanprize.jp He also was appointed Professeur Honoraire, |
Eugene Nester
Eugene Nester is an American plant microbiologist who has made significant contributions to the field of microbe-host interactions in plants and especially on ''Agrobacterium'' species. He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1994. He is an emeritus professor at the University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a .... References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American microbiologists Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences University of Washington faculty Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century American biologists 21st-century American biologists {{US-biologist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Kerr (biologist)
Allen Kerr AO, FRS, FAA (21 May 1926 – 14 December 2023) was a Scottish-born Australian biologist. He served as 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. Biography Kerr was born in Edinburgh on 21 May 1926. He gained a B.Sc. degree at the University of Edinburgh. From 1947-1951 he was an assistant Mycologist at the North of Scotland College of Agriculture. From 1951-1980 he was Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, then Reader in Plant Pathology at the University of Adelaide. From 1978-1983 he was Vice-President of the International Society for Plant Pathology. From 1980-1983 he was President of the Australasian Plant Pathology Society. In 1978, he was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. In 1986 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1990 he received the inaugural Australia Prize for his work with plant genetics and biolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Howarth (scientist)
James Eugene Howarth (born March 7, 1947) is an American former professional baseball outfielder who appeared in 152 games played in the Major League Baseball, Major Leagues over all or part of four seasons, from to , for the San Francisco Giants. He threw and batted left-handed, and was listed as tall and . Howarth was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, where he graduated from Biloxi High School, high school. He attended Mississippi State University, and was selected Southeastern Conference, All-SEC as a center fielder in his junior year in 1968. That June 7, he was selected by the Giants in the eighth round of the 1968 Major League Baseball Draft, 1968 amateur draft and entered their farm system. After his fourth season in the organization, in , when he batting average (baseball), batted a lofty .363 in 110 games for Triple-A (baseball), Triple-A Phoenix Giants, Phoenix, he was rewarded with a post-September 1 call-up to San Francisco. Howarth recorded three hit (baseball), hits and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Cutmore
Nicholas is a male given name and a surname. The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglican Churches celebrate Saint Nicholas every year on December 6, which is the name day for "Nicholas". In Greece, the name and its derivatives are especially popular in maritime regions, as St. Nicholas is considered the protector saint of seafarers. Origins The name is derived from the Greek name Νικόλαος ('' Nikolaos''), understood to mean 'victory of the people', being a compound of νίκη ''nikē'' 'victory' and λαός ''laos'' 'people'.. An ancient paretymology of the latter is that originates from λᾶς ''las'' ( contracted form of λᾶας ''laas'') meaning 'stone' or 'rock', as in Greek mythology, Deucalion and Pyrrha recreated the people after they had vanished in a catastrophic deluge, by throwing stones behind their shoulders while they kept marching on. The name became popular through Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra in Lycia, the inspi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Sowerby
Brian (sometimes spelled Bryan in English) is a male given name of Irish and Breton origin, as well as a surname of Occitan origin. It is common in the English-speaking world. It is possible that the name is derived from an Old Celtic word meaning "high" or "noble". For example, the element ''bre'' means "hill"; which could be transferred to mean "eminence" or "exalted one". The name is quite popular in Ireland, on account of Brian Boru, a 10th-century High King of Ireland. The name was also quite popular in East Anglia during the Middle Ages. This is because the name was introduced to England by Bretons following the Norman Conquest. Bretons also settled in Ireland along with the Normans in the 12th century, and 'their' name was mingled with the 'Irish' version. Also, in the north-west of England, the 'Irish' name was introduced by Scandinavian settlers from Ireland. Within the Gaelic speaking areas of Scotland, the name was at first only used by professional families of Irish or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Watt (physicist)
John Watt (born c.1932) is an Australian physicist, former Assistant Chief of the CSIRO Division of Mineral and Process Engineering, and Australia Prize winner. Watt was educated at the University of Sydney where he obtained a Master of Science degree in 1956. From around 1956 to 1967 he was a Research Officer with the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. John Watt started work with the Australian Atomic Energy Commission The Australian Atomic Energy Commission (AAEC) was a statutory body of the Australian government. It was established in 1952, replacing the Atomic Energy Policy Committee. In 1981 parts of the Commission were split off to become part of CSIRO, t ... (AAEC) as a Research Officer after graduating from The University of Sydney in 1956 with a Master of Science. He worked in the AAEC Isotope Division, becoming Head of the Radioisotope Applications Research Section in 1967. In 1982, he was transferred to the CSIRO Division of Mineral Physics as a Chief Resear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vernon Mountcastle
Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle (July 15, 1918 – January 11, 2015) was an American neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. He discovered and characterized the columnar organization of the cerebral cortex in the 1950s. This discovery was a turning point in investigations of the cerebral cortex, as nearly all cortical studies of sensory function after Mountcastle's 1957 paper, on the somatosensory cortex, used columnar organization as their basis. Early life and education Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle was born on July 15, 1918, in Shelbyville, Kentucky as the third of five children into a family of "farmers, industrial entrepreneurs, or builders of railroads". In 1921 his family moved to Roanoke, Virginia where he went to elementary and junior high school and was "an enthusiastic Boy Scout". Because his mother, a former teacher, had taught him to read and write when he was 4 years old, he immediately moved ahead two grades when entering t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Bishop (scientist)
Peter Bishop FRS (14 June 1917 — 3 June 2012) was an Australian neurophysiologist whose research involved study of the mammalian visual system. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ... in 1977. References 1917 births 2012 deaths Neurophysiologists Fellows of the Royal Society Australia Prize recipients {{Neuroscientist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace Barlow
Horace Basil Barlow FRS (8 December 1921 – 5 July 2020) was a British vision scientist. Life Barlow was the son of the civil servant Sir Alan Barlow and his wife Lady Nora (granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin). He was educated at Winchester College, and earned an M.D. at Harvard University in 1946. Barlow was married twice and had seven children and 13 grandchildren. Barlow died on 5 July 2020, at the age of 98. Research In 1953, Barlow discovered that the frog brain has neurons which fire in response to specific visual stimuli. This was a precursor to the work of Hubel and Wiesel on visual receptive fields in the visual cortex. He has made a long study of visual inhibition, the process whereby a neuron firing in response to one group of retinal cells can inhibit the firing of another neuron; this allows perception of relative contrast. In 1961, Barlow wrote a seminal article where he asked what the computational aims of the visual system are. He conclud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |