Professor May is an Australian who spent most of the earlier part of his career in the Physics Department at Sydney University, gaining one of two Personal Chairs awarded by the university at age 33. His subsequent interests in the dynamics of animal populations, pursued at Princeton University and more recently as Royal Society Research Professor jointly at Oxford University and Imperial College London, have led to major contributions to the science of ecology, including seminal contributions to the emerging discipline of "chaos". His fundamental research achievements and more general contributions as inspiring lecturer and educator have been widely recognised by many international awards, elections to learned societies, and honorary degrees.

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Raghunath Mashelkar has made path-breaking contributions in stimuli responsive polymers, modelling of polymerisation reactors, engineering analysis of non-Newtonian flows and in supamolecular therapeutics. Mashelkar was previously President of the Indian National Science Academy and the Institution of Chemical Engineers (UK). The transformation of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), under Mashelkar’s exceptional leadership as Director General, has been heralded as one of the ten most significant achievements of Indian science and technology in the twentieth century. Mashelkar has been a dominant force in shaping the direction of science and technology policies in India and has promoted worldwide the idea of inclusive innovation based on the concept of `more from less for more people’. Mashelkar’s connections with Australian science include his active involvement in creating India-Australia education, research and innovation bridges through Monash University, Swinburne, RMIT and the Australia-India Institute. Mashelkar has also supported the creation of the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF), Australia’s largest fund dedicated to bilateral research. Mashelkar also contributed to the establishment in 2008 of the IITB-Monash Research Academy, a joint venture, graduate research school, located in Mumbai, India. Mashelkar has been Vice-Chair and then Chair of the Academy’s Council since 2009. He has also been the Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Professor at Monash University since 2007. Mashelkar is also National Research Professor and President of Global Research Alliance, a global network of RTOs with over 60,000 scientists. He has received 37 honorary doctorates and many prestigious awards and prizes from around the world including, the Business Week (USA) ‘Stars of Asia’ award in 2005.

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David Buckingham is an Australian, who is distinguished as a physical and theoretical chemist. He has made seminal contributions to our knowledge of optical, electric and magnetic properties of molecules, intermolecular forces and chirality, and is a world leader in these areas. He invented and implemented a method of measuring molecular quadrupole moments. He made the first observations of differential Raman scattering of circularly polarized light by chiral molecules. He currently works on chirality in NMR spectroscopy and on hydrogen bonding. He has had continuing strong connections with his native Australia, through a stream of Australian research students and postdoctoral associates as well as through frequent scientific visits.

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Dr Stephen Rintoul has become the pre-eminent authority on the circulation of the Southern Ocean and its pivotal role in the global climate system. He has caused a paradigm shift in oceanography by demonstrating that the ocean’s vertical overturning circulation is closed by water mass transformations in the Southern Ocean, in contrast to the long-standing view that the overturning is driven by wide-spread interior mixing. His pioneering work on the transport and dynamics of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the formation of water masses, and his inspirational scientific leadership have had a profound impact on the field and earned him an outstanding international reputation.

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Distinguished for his work on the constitution of the earth's mantle and on the early chemical evolution of the earth, meteorites and the inner planets. He showed experimentally that olivines and pyroxenes transform to spinel and ilmenite structures at high pressures, and produced a model of the mantle soundly based on experiment and which accounts for the seismic observations. He has investigated the chemical processes involved in the formation of planetary bodies by accretion from a gas-dust cloud and emphasised the importance of oxidation­reduction equilibria in them. This led to his prediction of the occurrence of considerable metallic silicon in the Earth's core and to the suggestion that a body formed in this way would pass through a molten stage.

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Rickards has made structural, stereochemical, biochemical and synthetic contributions to the chemistry of biologically active natural products. Among the most significant compounds studied are the macrolide, glutarimide and ansamycin antibiotics from soil microorganisms of the genus Streptomyces. Research on the complex macrolide lactones, which are important in human antibacterial and antifungal therapy, led in 1970 to the definition of the structure of nystatin, the first of the polyene macrolides to be discovered and used clinically for over twenty-five years. Recent work includes the synthesis from phenol of key chiral intennediates in the preparation of the biologically important prostaglandins.

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Distinguished for his work along the following main lines: 1. Spectroscopic studies of the properties of molecules in perturbing environments (e.g., in solution) in an effort to understand the environmental influences on physical and chemical behaviour. 2. Studies of the optical, structural and equilibrium properties of defect solids to provide an understanding of the chemistry of the solid state. 3. The development of high-resolution electron diffraction and a study of fine structural effects to elucidate the mechanism of electron scattering by solids, to apply the method in structure analysis and to obtain information on the behaviour of extremely small crystals.

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Redman is distinguished for original and highly skilful advances in the quantitative analysis of transmission mechanisms between nerve fibres and their target cells. Applying his background in mathematics and electrical engineering, he solved the equations describing spread of excitatory current in complex nerve and muscle cells, and developed new procedures for analysing their passive electrical properties, including those of the geometrically highly complex spinal motoneurone. By recording responses of one motoneurone to impulses in a single presynaptic nerve fibre, both subsequently labelled and visualized histochemically, he has succeeded in relating the precise location and number of the endings of a single presynaptic fibre to the quantitatively analysed excitatory action of single impulses therein. This unique achievement, together with his earlier mathematical modelling, is recognized internationally and qualifies Redman as a leading authority on excitatory synaptic transmission.

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