Professor

David Solomon

AC FAA FTSE FRS

David Solomon
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Professor David Solomon has made many important contributions to basic and applied polymer chemistry. His pioneering work on the reaction kinetics of ester and alkyd polymerizations is internationally recognised and forms the basis of techniques used industrially. He has made similar advances for acrylic resins and vinyl-modified alkyd polymers. His clarification of fundamental mechanisms and interactions in glycerol/vegetable-oil reaction mixtures had led to major reassessments of theory and practice in the production and use of alkyd resins. More recently in his work on the interactions of organic compounds with mineral surfaces he has solved long-standing problems of clay colour-reactions, catalysis, and the initiation of polymerization at surfaces. The principles he has elucidated have been used to develop new industrial products within Australia and overseas. In each of these areas David wrote the definitive reference book.

Fields of research

34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3403 MACROMOLECULAR AND MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
    • 340304 Optical Properties of Materials
    • 340306 Polymerisation Mechanisms
    • 340309 Theory and Design of Materials
    • 340399 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry not elsewhere classified
  • 3405 ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
    • 340501 Free Radical Chemistry
    • 340599 Organic Chemistry not elsewhere classified
40 ENGINEERING
  • 4016 MATERIALS ENGINEERING
    • 401609 Polymers and Plastics

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

Expertise type

  • Chemistry
  • Physical Chemistry
  • Polymerization
  • Polymers

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Professor

Howard Worner

CBE FAA FTSE

Howard Worner
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Dr. Worner is distinguished for work in several fields of metallurgy and materials science. His most outstanding contributions have been the development of continuous smelting and refining processes notably those for continuous iron and steel making, continuous copper and nickel smelting­converting and for continuous tin smelting-refining. The originality of this work is marked by a range of patents for what have become known internationally as the WORCRA processes. Other fields in which he has worked are represented by publications on: dental and surgical materials (some fifty papers); creep of lead and its alloys; titanium extraction and special foundry techniques.

Expertise type

  • Mining
  • Metallurgy
  • Materials
  • Engineering

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Memoir

Howard Knox Worner 1913–2006

Professor Howard Worner CBE FAA FTSE was a brilliant metallurgist, industry leader and respected advisor to government.
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Conversation with scientist

Professor Howard Worner (1913-2006), metallurgist

Professor Howard Worner interviewed by David Salt in 2005. Professor Howard Worner had an extensive career and was a seminal individual in the field of metallurgy. He was born into a farming family in rural Victoria and he attended the Bendigo School of Mines in the early 1930s.
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Dr

Rana Munns

FAA

Rana Munns
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Rana Munns is the leading authority on how crop plants adapt to salinity. She has characterised the processes involved over a wide range of scales, from ion transporters in cell membranes, through the traffic of sodium and chloride around the plant, to the consequences of this traffic for the well-being of the plant throughout its life-cycle. Her uniquely comprehensive knowledge of these diverse processes enabled her to devise an exquisitely sensitive technique for identifying salinity tolerant plants. She has used this technique to identify simply-inherited novel genes that are providing great impetus for exploring the molecular genetics of salinity tolerance.

Fields of research

30 AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCES
  • 3004 CROP AND PASTURE PRODUCTION
    • 300404 Crop and Pasture Biochemistry and Physiology

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

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Plant Biology
  • Plant Physiology
  • Salt Tolerance

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Professor

Richard Williamson

FAA

Richard Williamson
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Dr Williamson's studies of motility in plant cells have had a major impact on the course of plant cell biological research. He independently co-discovered plant actin; from a novel experimental preparation, he developed the first explanation for organelle movement in plants based on acto-myosin-A TP (now fully substantiated); he was first to demonstrate responses to micromolar calcium ions and first to measure free calcium at these levels in plant cytoplasm. In 1990 he turned to molecular genetics of plant cell morphogenesis, significantly advancing knowledge of the role of microtubules in cell wall formation, and his very recent, definitive and widely publicised characterisation of a gene that synthesises cellulose - the world's most abundant biopolymer - has been hailed as a seminal breakthrough in one of the longest-standing and intractable problem areas in plant science.

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Plant Biology
  • Plant Cell Biology
  • Plant Cell Walls

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Dr

Jeremy Burdon

FAA FTSE

Jeremy Burdon
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Dr Jeremy Burdon has contributed significantly to the area of coevolutionary biology of plants and pathogens in natural communities. His pioneering work has focused on the numeric and genetic dynamics of the interactions, studying spatial and temporal patterns in resistance and virulence; genetic relationships between resistance genes; and the effects of genetic drift, migration, and recombination on pathogen populations. This major contribution to our understanding of the complexities of gene-for-gene coevolution and the role of pathogens in population and community dynamics has important implications for the conservation of genetic resources; weed management; and the use of resistance genes in agriculture.

Fields of research

30 AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCES
  • 3002 AGRICULTURE, LAND AND FARM MANAGEMENT
31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3103 ECOLOGY
  • 3108 PLANT BIOLOGY
    • 310805 Plant Pathology
41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
  • 4102 ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Ecosystems

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Professor

Ross Day

FAA FASSA

Ross Day
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Ross Day is distinguished amongst Australian scientists for his efforts to have experimental psychology recognized as one of the biological sciences. He has made clear the separation of psychophysics, which is a hard and exacting discipline, having its modern beginnings with the work of von Helmholtz, from other kinds of psychological inquiry which do not have close affinities with analytical studies of the nervous system. The department he founded at Monash University is an embodiment of this and has an excellent reputation world-wide. Apart from his personal scientific achievements, he has an outstanding record as a scientific administrator and advisor. He has been dean of Science at Monash, a long-time member of the ARGS, and a member of a number of other government scientific bodies. He was awarded an Honorary DSc by La Trobe University.

Expertise type

  • Consciousness
  • Medical Sciences
  • Perception
  • Psychology

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Professor Ross Day, psychology

Professor Rodd Day interviewed by Professor Max Coltheart in 2011. Ross Henry Day was born in Albany, WA in 1927. Day completed his secondary education at Albany High School in 1945 and then started a BSc (Hons) at the University of Western Australia (1946-49). While in his third year, Ross Day was offered a graduate assistant position in psychology, which he held throughout his honours year.
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Memoir

Ross Henry Day 1927–2018

Ross Henry Day was an Australian experimental psychologist well known for his research on visual illusions and for his critical role in the establishment of experimental psychology in Australia.
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Professor

Brian Johnstone

FAA

Brian Johnstone
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B. M. Johnstone's work on the movement of the basilar membrane and the organ of Corti, borne on that membrane, has greatly advanced understanding of the mechanism of hearing in vertebrates. His work has established that the movement of the membrane can account fully for the frequency tuning of auditory nerve fibres, and that the ability of the membrane to move in this tuned fashion is dependent on cells of the organ of Corti. Together these findings led Johnstone to propose and then demonstrate that the outer hair cells are actively motile cells, driving the movements of the membrane. This revolutionary idea synthesised many puzzling phenomena of the auditory system; explains the previously puzzling deafness of age as a failure of the outer hair cells; and has begun a search for the molecular mechanisms responsible for the very high rates of contraction attained by motile hair cells.

Expertise type

  • Auditory Physiology
  • Biology
  • Electrophysiology
  • Human Biology

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Professor

Colin Austin

FAA

Colin Austin
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C. R. Austin has an international reputation for his work on mammalian fertilisation. He was the first to describe many of the structural and chemical properties of both eggs and spermatozoa and the changes occurring during fertilisation including, simultaneous with M. C. Chang, the phenomenon of capacitation. He then showed the association of this with changes in the acrosome and the release of hyaluronidase. Studies of the arrival rate of spermatozoa at the site of fertilisation and of polyspermy and the blocks to it, changed concepts of the factors involved. His conclusions can be taken as general since many species were studied.

Expertise type

  • Mammalian Reproduction
  • Reproduction
  • Biology
  • Reproductive Biology

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Memoir

Colin Russell Austin 1914–2004

Colin Russell Austin, English by birth, initially graduated in Veterinary Science from the University of Sydney in 1936. The Second World War limited his career options, but he was fortunate to be employed by the CSIRO Division of Animal Health in Sydney. In 1954 he was invited to join the staff of the Medical Research Council’s laboratory in Mill Hill, London to study fertilization and early embryonic development in rats and rabbits.
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Dr

Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe

AM FAA

Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe
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Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe is the major contributor to endocrinology, embryology, and evolution of Australian and South American marsupials. He developed effective methods of husbandry so that significant numbers of animals, of known age and reproductive state, are available for study by specially tailored, highly sensitive assays and critical techniques. He has studied biology in the bush of New Zealand and Australia, the Himalayas, the Columbian Andes, and Antarctica. He taught effectively and publishes widely in respected journals. He has organized international conferences and edited Cambridge University Press Monographs. He was Acting Chief, Division of wildlife Research 1980-1981 and served on national grants and editorial committees.

Expertise type

  • Animal Biology
  • Biology
  • Fertility Control
  • Marsupial Biology

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Dr Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, marsupial biologist

Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe was born in Kashmir, India in 1929. He attended the school his parents ran in Kashmir, then finished school in England. He was awarded a BSc from the University of New Zealand (then called Canterbury University College) in 1951.
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Professor

Wilfred Simmonds

FAA

Wilfred Simmonds
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W.J. Simmonds has done original and distinguished research in mammalian physiology particularly in regard to the qualitative and quantitative aspects of absorption of protein, fluid and red cells from the lungs serous cavities and the sub-arachnoid space and into the physiology of the absorption of long-chain fatty acids and cholesterol from the gut. His discoveries have had important implications for the understanding and treatment of pulmonary oedema, sub-arachnoid haemorrhage and ascites, for a variety of malabsorption syndromes, and for, coronary heart disease. Simmonds' research into the effects of fat absorption on intestinal lymph production, his investigations on the role of bile salts, phospholipids and other natural detergents in the formation of lipid micelles and his quantitative analysis of the interrelationships of gastro-intestinal motility, lymph flow and bile and pancreatic secretions during fat absorption represent, in their sum, a distinguished and sustained, definitive contribution to medical science.

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Memoir

Wilfred John Simmonds 1918–1990

Professor Wilfred Simmonds was a leading physiologist known for his research investigating fat absorption from the gastrointestinal tract, producing findings with clinical significance.
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