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Donald Morton

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Donald Morton
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Morton is distinguished for his contributions to observational and instrumental optical astronomy. He was intimately concerned with both the Princeton rocket spectrographs end with the highly successful Copernicus satellite. With the former he obtained the first useful stellar spectra in the rocket ultra-violet, and from his results deduced the existence of stellar winds, now recognized as a major phenomenon in the evolution and atmospheric structure of giant stars generally. From the Copernicus results he made fundamental determinations of chemic abundances in the interstellar medium. During the time he has been its Director (since 1976) the Anglo-Australian Telescope has consolidated its position as the finest of the world's large telescopes, and has become the dominant influence in British and Australian optical astronomy.

Expertise type

  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Physics
  • Spectroscopy

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Professor

Keith Cole

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Keith Cole
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Professor Cole has made very substantial contributions to the theory of the upper atmosphere, the ionosphere and the magnetosphere also to more general areas of theoretical physics. Cole's prediction that energy pumped into the earth's atmosphere by the solar 'wind' could be of almost as great significance as the electromagnetic input has stimulated much experimental work, and his theories are now widely accepted. Cole has established an active research school, involved in international collaborative programs. He works actively on many scientific committees in his field, and is presently Chairman of the International Scientific Committee on Solar Terrestrial Physics of I.C.S.U.

Expertise type

  • Physics
  • Theoretical Physics
  • Solar-Terrestrial Physics

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Keith David Cole 1929–2010

Professor Keith Cole FAA was a leader in space physics whose work explained several puzzling phenomena in the ionosphere and thermosphere.
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Professor

Neville Fletcher

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Neville Fletcher
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Professor Neville Fletcher graduated B.S.C, Sydney, with first class honours in Mathematics and Physics. He was awarded University Medal in Mathematics and Physics and a fellowship to Harvard where he gained M.A in 1953 and Ph.D in 1956. He joined Radiophysics Division, C.S.I.R.O, in 1956, doing distinguished work on semi-conductors and physics of water and ice phase. In 1960, Fletcher became Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Physics, University of New England. In 1963, he was appointed by University Council to Personal Chair of Physics - the only one of its kind in Australia. Is now Dean of Science of University and Acting Head, Department of Physics. Fletcher has many publications to his credit, is an inspiring teacher and one of the foremost exponents of Solid State Physics in Australia.

Expertise type

  • Acoustics
  • Applied Physics
  • Materials
  • Physics

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Professor Neville Fletcher, physicist

Neville Fletcher was born in Armidale, NSW in 1930. He was educated at Armidale Demonstration School (1935-41) and at Armidale High School (1942-46). He attended New England University College, which was part of Sydney University, receiving a BSc in 1951. Fletcher then went to Harvard University where he gained a PhD in 1955 for his research on impurity levels in semiconductors.
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Professor

Brian Anderson

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Brian Anderson
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Professor Brian Anderson is distinguished for his contributions to system theory, in the areas of optimal control, including quadratic minimalisation problems, linear filtering and smoothing theory, including covariance factorisation, stability theory, and especially for the pioneering application of state-variable methods to network theory, particularly passive network synthesis.

Fields of research

40 ENGINEERING 400607 Signal Processing 400702 Automation engineering

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Expertise type

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Signal Processing
  • Applied Mathematics

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Professor Brian Anderson, systems engineer

Professor Brian Anderson was born in Sydney, Australia in 1941. He attended the University Sydney graduating with a degree in both engineering and mathematics. Professor Anderson received a PhD from Stanford University in the mid–1960s and stayed on as a faculty member before returning to Australia in 1967. He worked as a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle until 1982 when he moved to the Australian National University in Canberra to found a new Department of Systems Engineering within the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering. In 1994 Professor Anderson oversaw the establishment of the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering and was the School’s Director until 2002. Between 1998 and 2002, Professor Anderson was President of the Australian Academy of Science. From 2003–06, he was Chief Scientist of the organisation National Information Communication Technology Australia (NICTA). Professor Anderson continues his passion for research in his role as Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University. Interviewed by Professor Neville Fletcher in 2008.
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Professor

John Cowley

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John Cowley
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Dr Cowley has a considerable international reputation for his pioneer work on high-resolution electron diffraction and structure analysis. He is distinguished for:- the initiation and development of single-crystal structure analysis by electron diffraction, including new experimental methods and theoretical techniques; the development (in collaboration with A.F. Moodie) of a Completely new formulation of physical optics, which has, in particular, advanced considerably the theory of electron scattering; the discovery), interpretation and realization of the significance of the new optical phenomenon of Fourier images (in collaboration with A. F. Moodie); the first measurements of short-range order in single crystals of alloys and significant advances in the theory of short-range order.

Expertise type

  • Diffraction
  • Electron Crystallography
  • Electron Scattering

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John Maxwell Cowley 1923–2004

John Cowley contributed significantly to all of the fields that relate to electron diffraction and electron microscopy, and helped to found not a few of them. His name is associated in particular with n-beam dynamical theory, high-resolution electron microscopy, scanning transmission electron microscopy, instrumental design, and the application of the techniques of electron scattering to structure analysis.
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Edward Bowen

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Edward Bowen
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With Watson-Watt and Wilkins pioneered radar in England in 1935. Played essential part in subsequent all-important development. (Contribution recognized by British Government by award of O.B.E. and special grant of £12,000). Appointed Chief of Radiophysics Laboratory in 1946 and transformed it from a radar development establishment to one in which no less than three phases of its work (radio astronomy, rain physics and radio aids to navigation) have acquired international reputations. Personally mainly responsible for:- (i) The development of several radar aids to aerial navigation. (This was recognized by Thurlow Award given by American Institute of Navigation for ""the most outstanding contribution to the science of navigation during 1950""). (ii) Important advances in rain physics, particularly in the recognition of the importance of coalescence between drops as a rain-forming process, in personally undertaking and stimulating aircraft observations of clouds and in studies of the role of freezing nuclei in rain formation.

Expertise type

  • Radar
  • Engineering
  • Radiophysics
  • Physics

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Edward George Bowen 1911-1991

Edward George Bowen was one of the most dynamic and influential of the wartime generation of British physicists. Having completed his doctorate under Professor E.V. Appleton at King's College, London, he was recruited by Robert Watson-Watt in 1935 and played an important part in the early development of radar in Britain.
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Professor

Naomi Wray

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Naomi Wray
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Naomi Wray is a leading complex trait statistical geneticist. She has significantly contributed to quantitative genetic and evolutionary selection theory, with applications in agriculture and medicine. Her theoretical work on the prediction of rates of inbreeding in populations undergoing selection, led to changes in agricultural selection programmes worldwide in balancing genetic improvement with levels of inbreeding. She has developed innovative quantitative genetic methods for the estimation of genetic parameters from genetic epidemiology studies and methods for genetic risk prediction. She has applied these to psychiatric disorders, thereby contributing to the elucidation of the genetic basis of common, distressing, complex diseases.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3105 GENETICS
    • 60412 Quantitative Genetics (incl. Disease and Trait Mapping Genetics)
32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES 4203 HEALTH SERVICES AND SYSTEMS
  • 420313 Mental Health

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Expertise type

  • Genetic Epidemiology
  • Psychiatry
  • Clinical Neurology
  • Biology
  • Genetics
  • Genomics
  • Statistics

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Professor

Alex McBratney

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Alex McBratney
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Alex McBratney is a world-leading soil scientist who conceived and developed pedometrics, digital soil mapping and soil security, radically strengthening the knowledge base of soil science. He established new theory and empirical models of soil variation in landscapes and developed their applications, for example, in precision agriculture. His contributions have revolutionised the availability of soil information and led to improved agricultural practices with reduced environmental impacts and enhanced security of the world’s soil.

Fields of research

41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
  • 4106 SOIL SCIENCES

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Expertise type

  • Agricultural Science
  • Biology
  • Soil Science

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Professor

Stephen Nutt

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Stephen Nutt
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Professor Goodwin has made outstanding contributions to the area of systems science and dynamical systems over a period of 25 years. His work has had a major international impact and is known in virtually every country in the world. Of particular significance is his capacity to link fundamental theoretical research with engineering applications. He made pioneering contributions of lasting significance on the convergence of adaptive controllers and on numerical issues in digital filtering and control. More recent work on switching strategies in adaptive control may turn out to be a key concept in the emerging area of hybrid dynamical systems.

Fields of research

32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3204 IMMUNOLOGY
    • 320405 Humoural Immunology and Immunochemistry

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Expertise type

  • Antibodies
  • T Cells
  • B Cells
  • Transcriptional regulation
  • Transcription Factor
  • Biology
  • Immunology
  • Molecular Genetics
  • Stem Cells

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Professor

Jamie Rossjohn

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Jamie Rossjohn
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Jamie Rossjohn has had a profound impact on our understanding of immune recognition. By bringing the power of structural biology to bear, he has explained the pre-T-cell receptor (TCR) self-association in thymocyte ontogeny, provided novel insights into how TCRs interface with viral peptides bound to polymorphic HLA glycoproteins, and illuminated the aberrant T-cell reactivity that leads to autoimmunity and drug/food hypersensitivities. From the aspect of innate immunity, he pioneered the structural definition of Natural Killer cell specificity and defined the lipid-based immunity mediated by Natural Killer T-cells. Functioning at the cutting edge of immunology, Rossjohn has a stellar international reputation.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3101 BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY
    • 310112 Structural Biology (incl. Macromolecular Modelling)
32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3204 IMMUNOLOGY
    • 320403 Autoimmunity
    • 320404 Cellular Immunology
    • 320407 Innate Immunity
    • 320409 Tumour Immunology
  • 3205 MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY AND METABOLOMICS
    • 320506 Medical Biochemistry: Proteins and Peptides (incl. Medical Proteomics)

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Expertise type

  • Protein Structure
  • T Cells
  • X-ray Crystallography
  • Structural Biology
  • Immunology
  • Infection
  • Medical Sciences
  • Pathology

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