Professor

John Carver

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John Carver
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John Carver has contributed significantly to the field of experimental nuclear physics through his work on photodisintegration, and is particularly eminent for his work in ultraviolet spectroscopy as applied to constituents of the upper atmosphere. With his group in Adelaide he was responsible for important work using rockets and satellites and is continuing with related work in Canberra. He has made valuable contributions to national and international science through active membership of numerous scientific committees and is now deputy chairman of the Australian Science and Technology Council. Professor Carver is Director of the Research School of Physical Sciences at the Australian National University.

Expertise type

  • Nuclear Physics
  • Physics
  • Photodisintegration
  • Atmospheric Physics
  • Ultraviolet spectroscopy
  • Space Science

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Memoir

John Henry Carver 1926–2004

Professor John Carver AM FAA FTSE was a physicist and scientific administrator whose research spanned nuclear physics, atomic and molecular physics, and planetary atmospheric physics.
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Conversation with scientist

Professor John Carver (1926-2004), physicist

Professor John Carver interviewed by Professor Bob Crompton in 1997. John Carver was born in Sydney in 1926. He received a BSc in 1947 and an MSc in 1948 from the University of Sydney. Carver then went to England (1949 to 1953) to study for his PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
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Dr

Herbert Coombs

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Herbert Coombs
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Throughout his professional career Dr Coombs has had a direct influence in the development of science by encouraging activities to foster education and research in scientific disciplines and by aiding the rapid application of results of scientific research into primary and secondary industry and in commerce. He was intimately associated, when Director-General of the Department of Post-war Reconstruction, with the long term programme of biological and agricultural research for the development of the north of the continent, and when Governor of the Commonwealth Bank with the Rural Credits Development Fund which has stimulated and assisted research projects within the universities. He has maintained a continuing interest in developing innovations in secondary industry through the application of modern science and he has been an active member of the Science and Industry Forum.

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Memoir

Herbert Cole Coombs 1906-1997

With the death of Herbert Cole ('Nugget') Coombs on 29 October 1997, Australia lost its greatest public servant, a man who spent his life as an employee of the Commonwealth initiating major civilizing activities in economic and cultural fields, and after his retirement became a great champion of the rights of Aboriginal Australians.
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Professor

David Black

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David Black
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Professor David Black is recognised as one of the world's leading heterocyclic chemists and has made major contributions in heterocyclic chemistry, coordination chemistry and natural products. His international reputation is based on the originality and versatility of his research, which has generated the synthesis of new types of organic molecules and the discovery of new synthetic methodologies. He has published more than 250 papers and a book, "Organometallics in Organic Synthesis" and has been awarded the Rennie, Smith, Birch, and Leighton medals of the RACI. Since 2004 he has held the elected position of Secretary General of IUPAC.

Fields of research

34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3405 ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

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

Expertise type

  • Chemistry
  • Heterocyclic Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Synthesis

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Professor

Nancy Millis

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Nancy Millis
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Nancy Millis has rendered conspicuous service to the cause of science with an outstanding career in microbiology and in science education and administration. She played a critical role in ensuring public confidence in the regulation of Australian research using recombinant DNA techniques, as Chairman of the Commonwealth Government Recombinant DNA Monitoring Committee from 1981. This committee was replaced in 1987 by the Genetic Manipulation Advisory Committee (GMAC) which she chaired until June 2001. It is no exaggeration to state that the Australian community's confidence that appropriate checks and balances are in place to regulate scientific research is in large part due to the contributions of Nancy Millis.

Expertise type

  • Water Quality
  • Microbiology
  • Biology
  • Recombinant DNA

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Conversation with scientist

Professor Nancy Millis, microbiologist

Nancy Millis received a Bachelor of Agricultural Science in 1945, a Master of Agricultural Science in 1948 and a Doctorate in Science (Hon) in 1993, all from the University of Melbourne. She was awarded a Boots Research Scholarship in the UK and used it to study at the University of Bristol where she received a PhD in 1952. Her doctoral research was on microbial growth and fermentation in cider that started her lifelong interest in anything that ferments.
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Professor

Robyn Williams

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Robyn Williams
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Robyn Williams is perhaps the leading science journalist in Australia. As the Executive Producer of the ABC's Science Unit, Williams has provided enormous opportunities for scientists and science commentators to express their views, extending public understanding of science, and greatly raising the level of scientific debate within the community.

Expertise type

  • History
  • Science Broadcasting
  • Science Communication
  • Science Journalism

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Professor Robyn Williams in conversation with Dr Elizabeth Finkel

Professor Robyn Williams is perhaps the leading science journalist in Australia. As Executive Producer of the ABC’s Science Unit and presenter of The Science Show, one of the longest-running programs on Australian radio, Williams has made a significant contribution to the public understanding of science
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Professor

Helene Marsh

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Helene Marsh
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Professor Helene Marsh is the world’s premier authority on the ecology and conservation biology of dugongs. She is internationally recognised for her extensive research on their life history, reproductive ecology, population dynamics, diet, distribution, abundance and movements. Marsh’s research on dugongs and other marine megafauna has been instrumental in advancing the scientific understanding and management of coastal marine mammals in the global topics. Helene’s work integrates species ecology with a broader evaluation of the links between threatened species and the welfare of human societies, particularly in developing countries and among remote Indigenous Australian communities.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3103 ECOLOGY
    • 310301 Behavioural Ecology
    • 310305 Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
  • 4104 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
    • 410401 Conservation and biodiversity
    • 410402 Environmental assessment and monitoring
    • 410407 Wildlife and Habitat Management

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

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Conservation
  • Marine Biology
  • Marine Ecology

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Conversation with scientist

Professor Helene Marsh, environmental scientist

Professor Helene Marsh interviewed by Dr Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe in 2000. Professor Helene Marsh was awarded a BSc Hons from the University of Queensland in 1968 and a PhD from James Cook University of North Queensland in 1973. In 1973 she began her lifelong work on marine mammals and their habitat, focusing initially on dugongs.
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Professor

Barbara Howlett

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Barbara Howlett
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Professor Barbara Howlett is a leading international fungal plant pathologist. She discovered that disease-related genes are often located in unstable parts of the fungal genome, where gene loss and mutations readily occur. This explains how disease resistance, deliberately bred into crops, can rapidly break down in the field. The practical applications of her discovery have had a major impact on the viability and profitability of the Australian canota industry. She also discovered novel biosynthetic pathways for classes of fungal toxins that are important in diseases of both plants and animals.

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Fungal Disease
  • Pathology
  • Plant Biology

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Professor

Stephen Powles

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Stephen Powles
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Professor Stephen Powles foresaw that herbicide resistance would become a great problem in Australian and world agriculture. He pioneered resistance science, integrating molecular to agronomic initiatives in Australia, and became the international authority on herbicide resistance. He unravelled several resistance mechanisms including sequestration and metabolism. He first documented resistance glyphosate, the world’s most important herbicide. He showed that individual resistant plants simultaneously expressed several resistance mechanisms, endowing multiple resistance to most herbicides on earth. He contributes greatly to the management of herbicide resistance and GM crops and communicates approaches to industry, crop consultants, farmers and scientists around the world.

Fields of research

30 AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCES
  • 3004 CROP AND PASTURE PRODUCTION

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

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Crop Science
  • Herbicide Resistance
  • Plant Biology

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Professor

Michael Goddard

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Michael Goddard
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Goddard is a leading quantitative geneticist. He has made innovative contributions to quantitative and population genetics theory, in particular on the use of genetic markers in artificial selection programs in agriculture. A number of his methods have been adopted by livestock industries throughout the world. He developed a new multiple marker measure of linkage disequilibrium that allows the estimation of effective population size as a function of time in the past. He has developed statistical genetic methods to better understand the genetic architecture of complex traits, and has applied these to quantitative traits across a range of species.

Expertise type

  • Animal Biology
  • Animal Breeding
  • Biology
  • Genomics

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Professor

Peter Visscher

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Peter Visscher
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Visscher is a leading complex trait geneticist. He has contributed to quantitative and population genetic theory, with applications in medicine, evolutionary biology and agriculture. He has developed bioinformatics algorithms for gene mapping, and has shown how genetic markers can be used to obtain unbiased estimates of heritability. A computer package to apply his methods is in widespread use. He has developed new methods to infer effective population size from marker data and to estimate population divergence time from linkage disequilibrium. He has developed statistical methods for genetic risk prediction. Visscher is Chair of the 2011 Gordon Conference in Quantitative Genetics and Genomics.

Expertise type

  • Genetics
  • Animal Biology
  • Animal Breeding
  • Biology
  • Genomics
  • Population Genetics
  • Statistical genetics
  • Quantitative genetics

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