Whitten has made distinguished contributions in insect, population and evolutionary genetics and developed novel methods of insect pest control based on genetic manipulation. His applied objectives are based on fundamental contributions he has made. Under his leadership, genetic methods developed to control Australian sheep blowfly are the most advanced in the world. His analysis of the genetics of pesticide resistance in Lucilia is the most comprehensive study for any insect pest. He has concentrated on developing strategies to minimise genetically-based resistance in pests and has shown the value of genetic modifications to beneficial natural enemies of pest species.

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Mitochondria are essential organelles in plant cells involved in energy transduction and metabolism. James Whelan has carried out foundation and transformational studies on mitochondria in plant cells by defining the mechanisms and regulation of mitochondrial signalling and biogenesis. These studies have redefined mitochondria from being simply a metabolic hub to that of a central sensor and stress-signalling hub that is critical for plant responses to the environment. His publications, postgraduate student success, early-career researcher mentorship, institutional leadership and international collaborations testify to his international standing as a pre-eminent researcher in mitochondrial biology, an educator and an enthusiast for plant science.

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Professor Anthony Weiss is an outstanding multifaceted biomedical scientist, mentor and translational leader. He is the McCaughey Chair in Biochemistry and NHMRC Leadership Fellow at the University of Sydney, and the world leader in molecular studies of human tropoelastin and its assembly to make three-dimensional elastin protein biomaterials. His many international patents drove commercial success in one of Australia’s largest healthcare transactions. Professor Weiss’s many innovation awards include the Prime Minister’s Prize, NSW Premier’s Prize, Eureka Prize, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering’s Clunies Ross Award, and Australian Academy of Science’s Ian Wark Medal.

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Professor Watts has made outstanding contributions to fields as disparate as liquid state theory, collisional energy transfer and sputtering dynamics. He was the first to show that integral equation methods are capable of describing the gas-liquid coexistence curve. He was one of the first to develop intermolecular potential surfaces of spectroscopic accuracy. With Barker he developed the benchmark argon potential; he developed models for water, benzene, ammonia and methane. These models account for the thermodynamic, transport and spectroscopic properties in all three phases. Watts has exploited state-selected, crossed beam experimental methods to refine interintramolecular potential functions and dynamics.

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Warnaar has made several groundbreaking contributions to the fields of solvable lattice models, special functions, q-series and algebraic combinatorics. He is the discoverer of the first solvable two-dimensional lattice model in the presence of a symmetry breaking magnetic field and a pioneer in the theory of elliptic hypergeometric series. Together with A Schilling he discovered the generalised Kostka-Foulkes polynomials and supernomial coefficients, and in joint work with G Andrews and Schilling he provided the first examples of Rogers-Ramanujan identities for the Lie algebra A 2.

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Wand has made major, highly influential contributions to statistical methods for estimating mathematical functions. His field, variously known as nonparametric or flexible function estimation, or statistical smoothing, focuses on estimating functions under minimal structural assumptions. He has contributed substantially at all levels: to theory, methodology, software, education, and especially to applications. In terms of theory he has introduced techniques for exact risk analysis, made very influential contributions to multivariate local polynomial modelling, and developed methods for smoothing-parameter choice. His statistical software is widely used, and forms part of standard statistical packages. The many applications on which he has worked include the development of new, geoadditive technologies for epidemiology.

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Professor Vincent is internationally renowned for his fundamental studies of the atmosphere. His work on the nature and significance of atmospheric waves is especially important, leading to an invitation to lead an international research project the World Climate Research Program. In 2002 Professor Vincent was invited to present the R.H. Clarke Prize Lecture of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. He has a major role in the governing bodies of four international organisations promoting research in the atmosphere and the solar-terrestrial environment. In 1999 he was honoured by election as Vice-President of both IAMAS and SCOSTEP. Professor Vincent is an outstanding candidate for election to the Academy.

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Professor Tyerman is a world leader in the field of plant membrane transport. He has discovered key transporters, including channels for release of nitrogenous solutes into legume roots, central to symbiotic nitrogen fixation, and channels for sodium uptake in plant roots, central to plant responses to salinity. His outstanding work on plant-water relations includes discoveries of roles of aquaporins (water channels) and earlier use of the pressure-probe to understand mechanisms for turgor regulation. These contributions are unique in the successful application of new technologies at cellular and membrane levels to solve problems linked to stress physiology of whole plants.

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Professor Tucker has made fundamental contributions in the field of telecommunications over a period of 25 years. He has played a leadership role in telecommunications research, both in Australia and internationally, and was a corecipient of the 1997 Australia Prize for his contributions to telecommunications. In a series of pioneering research contributions, he developed a revolutionary microwave circuit approach to the analysis and design of semiconductor lasers for high-speed optical fibre telecommunications systems. This work overcame a critical bottleneck in the capacity of telecommunications systems and led to a new generation of broad-band networks.

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Dr Truswell is a leading authority in the application of palynology to problems in geology, palaeobotany and palaeoclimatology. She is distinguished for her work on the history of climate and vegetation in Australia during the Tertiary and for integrating this work with palynological studies from deep-sea sediments. She has also made important contributions to the stratigraphic palynology of the late Carboniferous and Permian Periods synthesising information on the evolution of sedimentary basins both in Australia and Antarctic. She is a recognised authority in the area of Antarctic geology, palynology and vegetation history during the Tertiary, utilising samples and data from her participation in oceanographic cruises to the Wilkes Coast and Ross Sea.

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