The Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal is awarded at most every two years by the

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to a

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for his or her outstanding research accomplishments.Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal
,

, retrieved 2010-06-06. It is named after

Thomas Ranken Lyle Sir Thomas Ranken Lyle FRS (26 August 1860 – 31 March 1944)R.W. Home'Lyle, Sir Thomas Ranken (1860–1944)' Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, Melbourne University Press, 1986, pp 172–174. was an Irish-Australian mathematical ph ...

, an Irish

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who became a professor at the

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. The award takes the form of a

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medal bearing the design of the head of Thomas Lyle, as sculpted by

Rayner Hoff George Rayner Hoff (27 November 1894 – 19 November 1937) was a British-born sculptor who mainly worked in Australia. He fought in World War I and is chiefly known for his war memorial work, particularly the sculptures on the ANZAC War Memoria ...

.. The medal was founded by the

Australian National Research Council 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 Soci ...

(ANRC) in 1932,.. and first awarded in 1935. When the Australian Academy of Science was established in 1954, it took over the roles of the ANRC, including administration of the medal.

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