Professor Raymond (Ray) Martin has made contributions to several fields of inorganic chemistry, including some significant work on the electrochemistry of boron trifluoride coordination compounds but his major work is on the magnetism and structure of transition element compounds. His early magnetic studies on copper acetate and related compounds first drew attention to the copper-copper interactions that was one of the starting points of the current wide-spread interest in metal-metal bonds. Through this and other detailed magnetic studies on transition-element compounds described in numerous original papers he has become an international figure in this field.

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Professor Martin has greatly advanced contemporary understanding of calcium regulating hormones. He demonstrated that osteoclasts possess calcitonin receptors and clarified the second messenger actions of parathyroid hormone (PTH). He has contributed extensively to modern concepts of bone cell biology, being a co-proposer of the hypothesis that bone resorbing hormones act initially on osteoblastic cells. His most outstanding contribution was the cloning of parathyroid hormone related protein (PTHrP) which he has shown to have a pivotal role in the syndrome of the humoral hypercalcaemia of malignancy as well as being involved in an increasingly diverse series of biological events.

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Nick Martin has made important contributions in the genetics of human behaviour and complex diseases. He played a major role in founding the Australian Twin Registry and has used it in a series of very large twin studies of personality, intelligence, alcoholism, asthma and endometriosis that have made important findings and set international standards for power and rigour. He has attracted major funding from NIH, EU, NHMRC, a CRC and industry and heads a research group of over 70. He has won international awards, published over 450 papers, and is the most cited author in psychology and psychiatry in Australia.

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Professor Mander has succeeded in the total synthesis of a number of natural products which pose particular difficulties. His outstanding synthesis of gibberellins is the highlight. It has been said of his problem "... the combination of overall molecular complexity, centers of high sensitivity towards many reagents, and a singularly diabolical placement and density of functionality serves to thwart all but the most sophisticated of approaches" (E. J. Corey). His syntheses are based on innovative strategies of wide importance for C-C bond formations in new ways, particularly from aromatic starting materials. The approach is to reduce the planning and execution of organic synthesis to a set of reliable procedures. A successful objective of the gibberellin work is to illuminate relations between structure and biological activity, using structurally modified analogues, and to provide specific isotope labelled compounds as probes for biological investigation.

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Dr Manchester is widely acknowledged as a world authority on pulsars. His monograph "Pulsars" with Professor J. H. Taylor of Princeton, published in 1977, remains the standard reference work on the subject. Following the major survey (Manchester et al. 1978) which more than doubled the number of known pulsars, Dr Manchester and his collaborators have made extensive contributions to the study of the galactic distribution and period evolution of pulsars. He has also been active in other areas of astrophysics, notably the study of the spiral structure of our Galaxy (Robinson et al.,1987) and the structure and evolution of supernova remnants (Manchester, 1987). From 1981 to 1987 he was leader of the Astrophysics Group in the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics. Dr Manchester has been a leading advocate of the development of a radio synthesis telescope in Australia and is a member of the Advisory Committee and Chairman of the Scientific Objectives Committee for the Australia Telescope.

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Professor Main is concerned with the total (behavioural, genetic, and physiological) adaptation of animals to aridity. He, and his graduate students, have investigated a wide array of animals with emphasis on frogs and marsupials. He combines a profound knowledge of natural history with a grasp of physiology and genetics which has led to significant and fruitful experiments. He has done distinguished and original work in the areas linking the established fields of behaviour, genetics and physiology.

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Distinguished for his work in many fields of organic chemistry. Special attention may be drawn to his long and valuable series of papers on the labile nature of the halogen atom in certain classes of organic compounds and to the importance of this work in the development of the modern theories of valency. Macbeth made much use of absorption spectra in structural investigations, both for synthetic material and natural products. His later work has dealt with many aspects of the natural products important in Australia and during the war he planned and supervised the erection and running of plant required for the production of urgently needed therapeutic materials.

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Lyons has notably advanced knowledge of the electronic and electrical properties of molecular crystals. Following extensive experimental and theoretical studies, he proposed an energy level scheme for electrically active crystals that has become widely accepted. He predicted the heights of the intrinsic conduction levels of a number of crystals on this basis, and subsequent experiments have confirmed the values. This success has established the value of Lyons's model, and opens the way to new advances. He has also made important experimental contributions to knowledge of gas phase electron capture by large molecules, to the measurement of ionization energies, and to studies of exciton-exciton collision processes.

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Professor Lu is a world leading scientist in materials science and chemical engineering. He has made many significant and sustained contributions including the new method for synthesis of highly reactive single crystal TiO2, new insights into the surface chemistry and modifications of nanoporous materials, molecular engineering of membranes and efficient photocatalyst for clean energy and water. He has also demonstrated practical applications of nanomaterials in hydrogen energy and environmental processes with over 20 international patents. His international recognitions include prestigious awards (e.g. Federation Fellowship, ExxonMobil, LeFevre, and ISI Highly Cited Researcher), 90 plenary/keynote invitations and 12 journal editorial boards/editorships.

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Catherine Lovelock is a global expert on the impacts of climate change on coastal wetlands and on the role of coastal ecosystems in mitigating climate change, or blue carbon. Her research has focussed particularly on mangrove ecology, on the impacts of sea level rise on mangroves and on carbon storage in mangrove ecosystems. She was lead author for the International Panel for Climate Change Wetlands chapter (2019), and contributes to national and international policy to implement conservation and restoration of coastal wetlands in order to enhance resilience of coastal communities.

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