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Mark Oliphant

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Mark Oliphant
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  • Physics
  • Nuclear Physics

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Memoir

Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant 1901-2000

With the death of Professor Sir Mark Oliphant, the first President of the Australian Academy of Science, Australia lost one of its most distinguished scientists. The Academy will remember and honour him for his leading role in its establishment, and for his continuing association with it until the last years of his long life.
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Sir

Gus Nossal

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Gus Nossal
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Sir Gus Nossal is distinguished for his work on cellular aspects of immunity. He was the first to demonstrate, in association with Lederberg, that isolated lymphoid cells (plasma cells) could liberate antibody and that, in doubly immunised animals, the great majority of cells produced one type of antibody only. He has made important contributions to the understanding of immunological tolerance, and his recent studies on the distribution of antigen in the lymph node have opened up an important new field. His reviews have played a major part in developing modern concepts of the genetic aspects of immunology.

Expertise type

  • Antibodies
  • Immunology
  • Medical Sciences
  • Vaccines

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Conversation with scientist

Sir Gustav Nossal, immunologist (1987 interview)

Gustav Nossal interviewed by Dr Max Blythe in 1987. Gustav Nossal studied medicine at the University of Sydney from where he earned a BSc (Med) in 1953 and a B Medicine and Surgery in 1955. After a two-year residency at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, in Sydney, he moved to Melbourne to work as a Research Fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (the Hall Institute) leading to his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 1960.
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Conversation with scientist

Sir Gustav Nossal, immunologist (1998 interview)

Sir Gustav Nossal's second interview. Gustav Nossal studied medicine at the University of Sydney from where he earned a BSc (Med) in 1953 and a B Medicine and Surgery in 1955. After a two-year residency at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, in Sydney, he moved to Melbourne to work as a Research Fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (the Hall Institute) leading to his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 1960.
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Professor

Nick Nicola

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Nick Nicola
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Dr Nicola is distinguished for his work on the biochemical characterization of the regulators and their receptors controlling blood cell formation. His purification and characterization of granulocyte colony stimulating factor led to its international use to promote white cell formation in cancer patients. His purification and cloning of the leukaemia inhibitory factor introduced a new class of regulators with diverse control functions in the body. The elegant procedures devised by him for cloning the receptors for haemopoietic growth factors has defined this new class of receptors. His work has significantly advanced our understanding of blood cell formation.

Fields of research

32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3205 MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY AND METABOLOMICS
    • 320506 Medical Biochemistry: Proteins and Peptides (incl. Medical Proteomics)

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Expertise type

  • Growth Factors
  • Haematology
  • Medical Sciences
  • Immunology

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Professor

Laurie Nichol

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Laurie Nichol
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Professor Nichol is known and respected internationally as a leader in the development, application and interpretation of except physicochemical methods, particularly those of sedimentation equilibrium and mass migration, for characterizing thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of interactions of biological macromolecules, important for understanding the stability of cellular systems and the control of metabolic processes. He has especially contributed to knowledge of: (i) the occurrence and kinetic significance of sigmoidal ligand-binding curves, (ii) the separate assessment of molecular aggregation and thermodynamic non-ideality, (iii) the occurrence of indefinite self-associations, (iv) the measurement of associations by simple mass­migration methods. His contributions have become widely known through his generous collaboration with others.

Expertise type

  • Molecular Biology
  • Biology
  • Biochemistry

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Memoir

Lawrence Walter Nichol 1935–2015

Professor Laurie Nichol was a biophysical chemist who specialised in using mathematical tools to understand protein interactions in biological systems. He later served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England and the Australian National University.
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Professor

Don Napper

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Don Napper
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Professor Donald H. Napper is a world leader in polymer colloids research, particularly in the areas of steric stabilization and the kinetics of emulsion polymerization. His monograph "Polymeric Stabilization" (1983), which describes how polymers confer stability on a colloidal dispersion, places Napper's own extensive and definitive studies in the context of other work. His status as a leader in polymer science at both the national and international levels rests on the solid foundation of his research work but has been enhanced by his untiring readiness and skill in communicating his knowledge to students and fellow researchers alike.

Expertise type

  • Chemistry
  • Colloids
  • Physical Chemistry
  • Polymers

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Professor

Dietmar Müller

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Dietmar Müller
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Dietmar Müller has made a profound contribution to understanding solid Earth processes by merging conventional geological and geophysical data into global digital data sets, and by coupling global tectonic models with kinematic and dynamic process models. He was one of the first to recognize that traditional geoscience, which is data rich and information poor, could exploit the enormous potential of open source software and digital databases for developing 4D geodata synthesis through space and time.

Fields of research

37 EARTH SCIENCES
  • 3705 GEOLOGY
    • 370504 Marine Geoscience
    • 370510 Stratigraphy (incl. biostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy and basin analysis)
    • 370511 Structural geology and tectonics
  • 3706 GEOPHYSICS

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Expertise type

  • Geophysics
  • Geology
  • Tectonics
  • e-Research
  • High Performance Computing
  • Geodynamics
  • Geoinformatics
  • Paleoclimate
  • Paleogeography
  • Earth Sciences

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Professor

Jim Morrison

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Jim Morrison
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Following early work on X-ray structure analysis, Dr. Morrison has engaged in work in the field of mass spectroscopy, in particular in its use in the study of ionization and excitation processes in molecular ions. Dr. Morrison is now an acknowledged leader in this field. His work, which has been characterized by ingenious experimental technique and original theoretical developments, has been largely responsible for the development of' electron-impact spectroscopy and through which information on the energy states of molecular ions can now be readily obtained. Because these states lie at energies which would place optical transitions to them in inaccessible regions of the far ultra­violet spectrum, almost no information was available until Morrison's recognition of the several distinct excitation processes possible in electron- or photon-molecule collisions allowed the establishment of energies and transition probabilities for both electronic and vibrational states of molecular ions. He has also made significant contributions to the use of high­-resolution mass spectroscopy in the elucidation of molecular structure.

Expertise type

  • Physical Chemistry
  • X-ray Crystallography
  • Mass spectrometry
  • Chemistry

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Memoir

James Douglas Morrison 1924–2013

Professor Jim Morrison was an expert in the construction of mass spectrometers who pioneered the use of computers with spectroscopic instruments.
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Conversation with scientist

Professor James Morrison, physical chemist

James Douglas (Jim) Morrison was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1924. Morrison completed his higher education at Glasgow University with a BSc (Hons) in chemistry (1945) and a PhD in X-ray crystallography (1948). Morrison was also awarded a DSc from Glasgow University in 1958. In 1949 Morrison left the cold and gloom of Scotland for sunny Australia and a position as a research officer in the division of Industrial Chemistry at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
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Professor

Louis Moresi

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Louis Moresi
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Louis Moresi has made major advances in the discipline of geodynamics helping to expand the use of computational physics into mainstream geology and tectonics. His work combines deep physical insights into the nature of convection in the Earth's lithosphere and mantle with novel approaches to computation. He is a champion of open-source scientific software and the originator of several community codes that have made quantitative modelling accessible across multiple disciplines in the Earth sciences.

Fields of research

37 EARTH SCIENCES
  • 3705 GEOLOGY
    • 370511 Structural geology and tectonics
    • 370599 Geology not elsewhere classified
  • 3706 GEOPHYSICS
    • 370604 Geodynamics
40 ENGINEERING 49 MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  • 4903 NUMERICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Computational Mathematics
  • Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Geomechanics
  • Planetary Science
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Earth Sciences
  • Data in Science

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Professor

Bill Moran

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Bill Moran
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William Moran is distinguished for his work over a broad range of harmonic analysis. He has made significant contributions, both alone and in collaboration, to our knowledge of measure theory on topological spaces, concrete properties of distributions on the circle, and analysis of non-abelian groups and their representations. So effectively does he share his wide knowledge of modern mathematics, that he exerts an influence still greater than the impressive body of his published work.

Expertise type

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Radar
  • Signal Processing

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Professor

Alex Moodie

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Alex Moodie
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Professor Alexander (Alex) Moodie has played an essential part in the theortical and experimental developments which have revolutionised the fields of electron diffraction and microscopy of crystals in recent years. His theoretical work has included important contributions to the initial formulation of a complete n-beam theory of electron diffraction, the formal quantum mechancial basis for this and the computing methods permitting its application to practical problems. He has initiated the development of several new experimental techniques and methods and has pioneered the application of these and established techniques to the confirmation of theoretical results and to problems of importance in solid-state physics and chemistry.

Expertise type

  • Electron Microscopy
  • Electron Diffraction
  • Engineering
  • Materials Science
  • Scattering Theory

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