Emeritus Professor Robert (Robin) Stokes is internationally known for his research on the thermodynamics and transport properties of solutions with special reference to both the experimental and theoretical aspects of activities, conductances and diffusion in concentrated electrolyte solutions, and of diffusion in liquid mixtures. He has contributed significantly to the understanding of ionic hydration. The author of nearly fifty research papers since 1939, he has been awarded the Meldola Medal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, and the Rennie and Smith Memorial Medals of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.

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Professor Stalker is an expert in the field of very high-speed gas dynamics. He has been associated with the free piston shock tubes at the Australian National University and the University of Queensland, which, since 1970, produce the most energetic streams of gas in the world. The associated theory, instrumentation and data handling have been investigated by Professor Stalker over the past 25 years. This work has resulted in new understanding of shock-wave/boundary layer interactions and numerous other aspects of very high-speed flows useful in designing space vehicles.

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Professor Smith is a world authority on the mycorrhizal symbiosis between plants and fungi, and has coauthored the most definitive text on the subject. To attack the very difficult problems this symbiosis presents she has developed many important multidisciplinary collaborations. With them she has made outstanding contributions to our understanding of the structure of the plant-fungal interface, of nutrient transfer across it and of the molecular processes involved in forming and controlling the interface. Having made pioneering advances in understanding nutrient transfer in ectomycorrhizal associations, she is now the centre of an exciting attack on the fundamental processes in vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizas.

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Gunnar Ӧquist, the pre-eminent Swedish plant physiologist, is distinguished for seminal contributions to understanding how plants, algae and cyanobacteria cope with environmental stress, particularly low temperature, high light and iron deficiency. He continues to elucidate novel molecular mechanisms underlying photosynthetic responses during cold acclimation of evergreens and crop plants, and to make significant discoveries concerning photoinhibition. He has worked closely with Australian scientists, in CSIRO and his laboratory (Umeå), served on ANU advisory boards, and contributed to an AAS-sponsored forum on nurturing creativity in research. With the Umeå Plant Science Center, a Swedish genomics centre, and as Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, he now has opportunities to enhance links between our Academies, and the networking of Australian research with Sweden and the European Union, thereby strengthening the excellent contacts he has sustained between our countries.

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At just 29 years of age, Adelaide born Terry Tao had already made extraordinary contributions to the mathematical sciences. His work on a wide variety of problems in mathematical analysis, and on the existence of arithmetic sequences of primes, has been recognised by the conferring of honours of great distinction. More generally, his discoveries have revitalised and energised mathematics on a very broad front, from number theory to mathematical physics and statistics. Throughout he has maintained close contact with Australian mathematics and Australian mathematicians, enriching science in this country through his striking achievements.

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Professor Hiroaki Suga is internationally recognised for his ground-breaking work developing RNA-based catalysts that facilitate a new method for discovering bioactive peptides. His work involves replicating the processes of the ribosome in the laboratory to allow for artificial peptide and protein translation. His RNA catalyst, the flezixyme, allows unnatural amino acids to be incorporated into peptides and proteins, a revolutionary development that enables the production of a huge variety of molecules that could not be created in nature. Using the power of the flexizyme, Professor Suga developed RaPID, an innovative platform that facilitates the screening of billions of peptides against a protein target to find binders. RaPID is now widely used around the world to find potential drugs for important protein targets.

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Sir Fraser Stoddart was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines. Sir Fraser is one of the few chemists during the past 35 years to have created a new field of chemistry, namely, one in which the mechanical bond is a pre-eminent feature of molecular compounds. He pioneered the development of the use of molecular recognition in template-directed protocols for the synthesis of two-state mechanically interlocked molecules, which have been employed as molecular switches in the fabrication of molecular electronic devices and in the design and synthesis of artificial molecular machines.

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Professor Rao is one of the foremost world leaders in the area of solid state and materials chemistry. Rao is considered by many to be one of the founders of materials chemistry and he has contributed widely to the subject for more than five decades. The areas to which he has contributed are transition metal oxides, superconductivity, Colossal magnetoresistance, multiferroics, nanocarbons and their analogues, specially nanotubes and layered materials. Rao is an undisputed leader of science in India and has been a driving force for India-Australia cooperation in science. Rao played a leading role that led to the establishment in 2006 of Australia’s largest bilateral science and research fund, the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund, to foster a long-term scientific and technology partnership.

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H. Vincent Poor is recognised worldwide for his landmark and prolific contributions to Information and Communication Technologies, and to their underlying scientific bases. He has made broad and prolific contributions to these fields over a period of four decades and has played a leadership role in pushing the frontiers of wireless communication networks by establishing fundamentals underlying existing, emerging, and evolving generations of such networks. His connections with Australian science are long-standing and deep, spanning more than three decades and involving collaborations with colleagues at many of Australia’s leading research institutions.

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Professor Sir Ronald Oxburgh is a leading scientist and director of scientific research in Britain. He is an earth scientist who has made significant contributions to the understanding of the dynamics of the Earth. He has developed a broad discipline based approach to earth science research with contributions in geology, geochemistry and geophysics. Few have been able to match his command of the subject. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1978. Oxburgh was appointed Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology in the University of Cambridge in 1978 where he succeeded in transforming their earth science education and research. He was responsible for a major reform of earth science research in the UK through his review of the discipline for the Research Council. In 1988 he was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence in which position he was the effective Chief Scientist in Britain. In 1993 he became Rector of Imperial College. Professor Oxburgh's association with Australia goes back to his many scientific contributions that have influenced the directions of research in Australian Universities and the Australian National University in particular.

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