Professor

Bill Compston

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Bill Compston
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Professor William (Bill) Compston is distinguished for his work in isotype geochemistry and isotopic age-dating and in developing geological and intrumental techniques for this purpose. He was responsible (jointly with P. M. Jeffery) for recognising that certain types of igneous rock may remain closed systems for rubidium and strontium during metamorphism and thus introducing the total-rock method of rubidium-strontium dating now so widely used. A second important discovery is that the age of deposition or diagenesis can be recorded in shales, thus opening up the possibility of dating Precambrian sediments by Rb-Sr methods. He has been the driving force behind the programme for dating the Australian Precambrian. On the instrumental side, he has developed statistical methods of determining Rb-Sr isochrons and has developed the important double-spike method for correcting mass-discrimination during the isotopic analysis of lead.

Expertise type

  • Moon rock
  • Apollo 11
  • Geochemistry
  • Geochronology
  • Astronomy
  • Earth Sciences
  • Solar System Evolution

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Professor Bill Compston, isotope geochemist

Professor William (Bill) Compston is a renowned geophysicist who began his research career fingerprinting and dating rocks at the University of Western Australia before moving to the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University. He was a principal investigator dating lunar rock samples that were collected by Apollo 11, but is best known for his work developing the Sensitive High Resolution Ion Micro Probe (SHRIMP). Interviewed by Mr David Salt, 2005.
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Professor

Bob Clark

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Bob Clark
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Professor Clark has co-authored 140 research publications. He has established two of the country's most advanced research laboratories, the National Pulsed Magnet Laboratory and Semiconductor Nanofabrication Facility both central to the new Australian Research Council SRC for Quantum Computer Technology of which he is Director. Research highlights include the first (indirect) measurement of fractional electronic charge in the fractional quantum Hall regime and the elucidation of the critical role played by electron spin (cited by RB Laughlin in his Nobel Prize review). Important experiments also include the optical detection of the fractional quantum Hall effect and electron solid (Wigner crystal).

Expertise type

  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Nanotechnology
  • Physics
  • Quantum Computing

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Dr

Greg Clark

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Greg Clark
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Gregory Clark is a renowned scientist, technologist and businessman with an outstanding career both in Australia and internationally across a spectrum of industries from IT and communications to media, space and finance. His scientific contributions have been in the areas of solid-state physics, chip technology, neutrino physics, space technology, media digitization and cyber analysis. Clark has also continually supported student education and involvement.

Fields of research

10 TECHNOLOGY
  • 1005 COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES
40 ENGINEERING 400606 Satellite Communications 46 INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES
  • 4606 DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING AND SYSTEMS SOFTWARE
51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES
  • 5102 ATOMIC, MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS
510601 Nuclear Physics

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Expertise type

  • Applied Physics
  • High Performance Computing
  • ICT
  • Quantum Computing
  • Physics
  • Quantum Communication
  • Astronomical Instrumentation
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • e-Research
  • Computer Science
  • Dark Matter
  • Materials Science
  • Nuclear Fusion
  • Physics Education
  • Electronics
  • Silicon and Germanium
  • Optical Communications

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Professor

Chris Christiansen

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Chris Christiansen
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Christiansen is a Senior Principal Research Officer in the Radiophysics Laboratory working on radio astronomy. His contributions to high resolution studies of the Sun are outstanding. In 1952 he devised an instrument giving high resolution in one dimension, in 1957 another giving resolution in two dimensions and producing actual pictures of the Sun in the "light" of 21 cm radio waves. Christiansen's observations and interpretation have supplied a major part of our knowledge of this aspect of solar radio astronomy. His equipment has since been copied in many laboratories. Prior to joining the Radiophysics Laboratory, he worked on the development of rhombic aerials for long distance communication and the forms he developed are now in use in many countries.

Expertise type

  • Radioastronomy
  • Physics
  • Radiophysics

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Memoir

Wilbur Norman Christiansen 1913–2007

Chris Christiansen was a physicist and engineer whose innovations shaped radio astronomy in Australia.
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Professor Chris Christiansen (1913-2007), physicist and engineer

Professor Chris Christiansen was born in 1913 in Melbourne. From the University of Melbourne he received a BSc in 1934, an MSc in 1935 and a DSc in 1953. In 1980 he was awarded a DScEng from the University of Sydney. After graduating with his MSc he was a physicist at the Commonwealth X-ray and Radium Laboratory in Sydney for two years.
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Professor

Andy Choo

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Andy Choo
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Professor Choo is distinguished for his contributions to human molecular genetics. He was the first to clone the gene for human blood-clotting factor IX, leading to new therapies for haemophilia B. His pioneering work on the human centromere has revolutionised our understanding of chromosome stability and replication. He was the first to describe the epigenetic formation of neurocentromeres in chromosomal fragments, at that time a novel concept that broke the paradigms of eukaryotic chromosome structure and function. His work on the centromere has lead to greater understanding of chromosome non-disjunction, and given impetus to the use of synthetic human mini-chromosomes as vectors for gene therapy.

Expertise type

  • Chromosome Integrity
  • Epigenetics
  • Genomics
  • Medical Sciences

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Professor

Ken Cavill

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Ken Cavill
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Expertise type

  • Insect venom
  • Ants
  • Insects
  • Biological Chemistry
  • Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry

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Memoir

George William Kenneth (Ken) Cavill 1922–2017

Professor Ken Cavill's research lay at the interface of chemistry and biology, focused on insect venoms and compounds with attractant and repellent properties. He discovered entirely new classes of terpenoid compounds and was awarded the first ever personal chair by UNSW.
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Professor

Sam Carey

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Sam Carey
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Samuel Warren Carey is distinguished for his extensive studies of the geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea. He is particularly noted for his contributions to the theory of plate tectonics. He used his analysis of the geology of PNG to build up a detailed picture of indestructible continental blocks mobile over the surface of the globe. Much later discoveries by others of seafloor spreading and subduction replaced his hypothesis of an expanding earth. He played an important role in advancing this major feature of the dynamics of the earth.

Expertise type

  • Geology
  • Earth Sciences
  • Plate Tectonics

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Memoir

Samuel Warren Carey 1911-2002

Professor S. Warren Carey (as he preferred to be known) personified a philosophy of synthesis/integration that lies at the heart of large-scale disciplines such as geology and astronomy.
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Professor Sam Carey, geologist

Professor Sam Carey was interviewed by Professor Pat Quilty in 2000. Professor Sam Carey received a DSc from the University of Sydney in 1939 for his work on the tectonic evolution of New Guinea and Melanesia. He worked in the petroleum industry in New Guinea and then served with the Australian Infantry Forces from 1942-44.
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Dr

Pep Canadell

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Pep Canadell
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Dr Josep Canadell is an eminent world authority and leader in global biogeochemistry, focusing on the impact of human activities on the carbon cycle and global greenhouse gas budgets. He has pioneered work on the dynamics of natural carbon sinks, global carbon stocks, and the biogeophysical processes that drive Earth’s carbon exchanges, producing the most authoritative global greenhouse gas budgets. His research serves as a reference in global biogeochemistry and climate change assessments. Dr Canadell has demonstrated sustained global influence and leadership in translating greenhouse gas information to support climate negotiations and policy development.

Fields of research

41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

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

Expertise type

  • Climate Change
  • Earth Sciences
  • Fire Ecology
  • Carbon Dioxide
  • Air Emissions
  • Ecosystems

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Professor

Ken Campbell

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Ken Campbell
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Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Evolution
  • Palaeontology
  • Palaeozoic

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Professor Ken Campbell, palaeontologist

Professor Ken Campbell interviewed by Professor John White in 2000. Professor Ken Campbell is one of Australia’s most distinguished palaeontologists, certainly the senior palaeontologist in Australia, and one who has made a remarkable contribution to the study of that subject, not only on Australian fossils but also worldwide.
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Emeritus Professor

Tom Calma

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Tom Calma
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Tom Calma is an Aboriginal elder from the Kungarakan tribal group and a member of the Iwaidja tribal group. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2012 and named ACT Australian of the Year in 2013 for his work as a human rights and social justice advocate. Calma has long been a champion for the improvement and advancement of Indigenous peoples’ health, justice, education, and employment status. Calma's research interests include pharmacological application for scabies control, genomics, Indigenous cancers, tobacco control, and micro-biome, as well as health, mental health, and suicide prevention. For many decades, Calma has been a fierce advocate for progress and change, and his work continues to have an enduring impact on public discourse in Australia and beyond.

Fields of research

32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES 39 EDUCATION
  • 3903 EDUCATION SYSTEMS
    • 390302 Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori)
4203 HEALTH SERVICES AND SYSTEMS 420603 Health Promotion 44 HUMAN SOCIETY
  • 4407 Policy and Administration
4504 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing

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

Expertise type

  • Ageing
  • Disadvantaged/High-Risk Populations
  • Cancer
  • Science Policy

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