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Professor Batchelor is an Australian by birth and early training who has spent most of his career at the University of Cambridge. There he built up a notable Department which has attracted successive generations of students and postdoctoral workers from Australia, and those who have returned to senior positions here acknowledge his strong and continuing influence on the development of applied mathematics and fluid mechanics in this country and around the world. His personal research and more general contributions to his field have been widely recognised by the award of a Royal Medal of the Royal Society and many other international awards, elections and honorary degrees.

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Peter Raven is a distinguished plant taxonomist whose research on several groups of plants, on biogeography and on rainforests has many connections with Australia. His monograph on the genus Epilobium in Australasia was described as "definitive in every conceivable way". In 1965 with Paul Ehrlich he developed the concept of "co-evolution" from their work on butterflies and plants. He subsequently pioneered work on folk taxonomy, of the Tzeltal people of Mexico. His Lemberg Fellowship lectures on "Australasian biogeography and continental drift" recognised his influence in that area. Recently he has been active as a referee of the Australian Heritage Commission on behalf of conservation of tropical rainforests in Queensland.

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Cornforth was largely responsible for the first total synthesis of a natural steroid. His main achievement (largely in conjunction with George Popjak) was to define the route of biosynthesis to the biologically highly significant cholesterol molecule. This work emphasised the stereochemistry of biological reactions and of enzymic specificities, and the close relationships of biochemical reactions to basic chemical theories. It was for this more general aspect that he was awarded a Nobel Prize. His work has been characterised by an almost unexampled sophistication of experimental conception, which probably as much as the actual achievements have roused the admiration of both chemists and biochemists. It is fitting that the Academy honour an Australian, despite his long residence abroad. He has been sufficiently interested in his homeland to provide a number of opportunities for Australians to work in the U.K. and has also spent two periods as a Visiting Fellow in the Australian National University.

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