Professor Andrew Cole is distinguished for his contribution to spectroscopy and its application to molecular structure determination. His earlier work pioneered the application of infra red spectroscopy to the structure determination of natural products such as steroids and triterpenoids. He was the first to adapt the reflecting microscope to measuring infra-red spectra. His recent work has involved the design and construction of high resolution spectrometers for the visible and the near and far infra-red regions and the study of simple fundamental molecules such as methane, ethane, glyoxal, butadiene, acrolein, acetylene, nitric oxide and cyanogen fluoride leading to highly precise measurements of geometrical parameters.

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G. Szekeres is one of the most active five mathematicians in Australia at present and his work is internationally known and respected. His range of interests is wide and his 38 published papers are roughly evenly divided amoung the fields of number theory, abstract algebra, combinatorial geometry, real and complex analysis, and general relativity. His most significant recent work has been in analysis, particularly in the theory of functional iteration.

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Evans Lagudah has made outstanding contributions to international agriculture by providing the first insights into the quantitative wheat rust disease resistance trait, Adult Plant Resistance (APR). He cloned the Lr34 and Lr67 genes, which are a novel class of multi-pathogen resistance genes. Transfer of these genes into the world’s top five cereals confers resistance to diverse pathogens. Lagudah has also cloned several plant immune receptor genes which together with the APR genes are selected by the world’s leading wheat improvement programs. He has made critical contributions to strategies aimed at durable rust resistance, a trait vital for world food security.

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James McCluskey is internationally recognised for his contribution to understanding the biology of the Human Leucocyte Antigens (HLA) of the major histocompatibility complex. He has made critical discoveries underpinning the biochemical basis for HLA determinant selection, genetic control of cellular immunity and the structural basis of T cell recognition. His work has provided a paradigm for the basis of HLA associations with human disease, including the immunogenetic basis of T cell mediated drug hypersensitivity. He identified the basic mechanisms of determinant spreading of autoantibody specificity in systemic autoimmunity. His record includes significant translational achievements in clinical immunology and allogeneic transplantation.

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Alan Carey is internationally renowned for original research in several distinct areas of pure mathematics, bridging analysis, geometry, topology and mathematical physics. He is particularly well known for his work on infinite dimensional groups and their application to quantum field theory. He is also a leading expert in spectral invariants of manifolds and has contributed strongly to the development of non-commutative geometry and its application to quantum–mechanical phenomena in solid state physics. Finally, Carey has written extensively on geometric structures in quantum field theory. Carey has also played a very strong leadership and nurturing role in Australian mathematics.

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Anna Koltunow has made outstanding contributions to understanding plant reproduction by uncovering mechanisms regulating fruit and seed formation via sexual and asexual (apomictic) pathways. She discovered mechanisms controlling seedless fruit formation and has generated seedless fruit in crops. Her pioneering work in apomixis, developing and using an apomict species where remarkably, female gametes form without meiosis, and seeds develop in the absence of paternal fertilization as a genetic and molecular model has identified similarities and differences in the mechanisms controlling apomixis and sexual seed formation. Koltunow's discoveries are being used in developing crops with transformational productivity improvements in developing countries.

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Known for work in the field of inorganic chemistry, with special reference to co-ordination compounds, the chemistry of the solid state, and the chemistry of the heavy elements. His studies of metal carbonyls, co-ordination compounds of olefin hydrocarbons, and isotope exchange reactions of metal ammines played some part in the growth of current theories of the structure of metallic complexes. His interest in non-stoichiometric compounds and in the chemical significance of the modern theory of solids has contributed to our knowledge of the mechanism of reaction involving solids, and of semiconductors. As deputy head of the Chemistry Division of the British Atomic Energy Research Establishment, he was responsible for shaping the programme of pure and applied inorganic chemical research of that project, and for initiating work in high temperature chemistry, the chemistry of the natural radio­-elements and other topics.

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