Archive for 'Bragg Members'

Peter Yates is Chair of RiAus, the Australian Science Media Centre and the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. He is also Chair of the Peony Capital General Partnership, the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation (Victoria) and a Director of Oceania Capital Partners Limited and MOKO.mobi. From ... Continue Reading »

Professor Andrews is an eminent scientist and bio-entrepreneur. He was appointed as Queensland’s first Chief Scientist in 2003, retiring in December 2010. Professor Andrews completed his PhD in the pharmacological applications of quantum chemistry at the University of Melbourne in 1969. He has since led multidisciplinary scientific teams at several Australian ... Continue Reading »

Dr Clark is a world-renowned scientist, technologist and businessman. He has received a number of international awards and fellowships in recognition of his contributions to technology and society. He was on the Australian Prime Minister's Science and Technology Committee from 1990 to 1998. Dr Clark has a PhD in physics ... Continue Reading »

Sir Rod Eddington is one of Australia's most experienced and accomplished business leaders. Educated as an engineer at the University of Western Australia and then Oxford University as Western Australia's 1974 Rhodes Scholar, he has demonstrated his acumen and expertise on the national, regional, and international stages. Sir Rod's career began ... Continue Reading »

David Knox was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Santos in July 2008. He has 30 years' experience in the global oil and gas industry, including as Managing Director for BP Developments in Australasia from 2003 to 2007. Mr Knox joined Santos in September 2007 as Executive Vice President ... Continue Reading »

Spanish businessman Javier Moll is the owner of the Barcelona-based media company Editorial Prensa Ibérica. His media holdings in Australia include The Adelaide Review and other titles. Mr Moll is the former owner of the heritage-listed Science Exchange (previously the Adelaide Stock Exchange), which is now owned by the South Australian ... Continue Reading »

Martyn Myer is a non-executive director of three publicly listed companies: Cogstate Ltd; SP Ausnet Group (Singapore Power's Australian listed subsidiary which owns electricity and gas transmission and distribution assets) since 2005, and Diversified United Investments Ltd (a listed equity investment company) since 1991. He was also a director of ... Continue Reading »

Mike Rann was Premier of South Australia for nine and a half years and served for 26 years in the South Australian Parliament. While Premier he was also Minister for Economic Development, Minister for the Arts, Australia's first Minister for Social Inclusion and Australia's – and one of the world's ... Continue Reading »

2011 Nobel Laureate Appointed a Companion (AC) in the General Division of the Order of Australia in 2013 Distinguished Professor, Australian National University Brian P Schmidt is a Laureate Fellow at The Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory.  Brian was raised in Montana and Alaska, USA, and received undergraduate degrees in Physics and ... Continue Reading »

Born: Kutztown, Pennsylvania, US Educated at the University of Illinois, David Boger moved to the newly established Monash University to take up a career in fluid mechanics. He has held appointments at the University of Toronto, the University of Delaware, the University of Melbourne, Nanyang Technological University, ... Continue Reading »

Prof Max Brennan graduated from the University of Sydney in 1954 (BSc Hons) and 1958 (PhD). He was awarded honorary degrees from Flinders University and Queensland University of Technology. He was made an Officer in the Order of Australia in 1985, and elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy ... Continue Reading »

Born: 1935 Graeme Clark is responsible for the pioneering research and development of the Bionic Ear, a multiple-channel Cochlear Implant. The Cochlear Implant has brought hearing and speech understanding to more than thousands of people with a severe-to-profound hearing loss around the world. His research resulted in ... Continue Reading »

Born: 1938, Melbourne, Australia Adrienne Clarke gained her Bachelor of Science and PhD from the University of Melbourne. In 1964 she became a research fellow at the Institute of Dental Research at the United Dental Hospital of Sydney, then moved to the Baylor University in Houston, Texas and ... Continue Reading »

Emeritus Professor John Yovich AM is Executive Chairman of Student Edge and a Director of Racing and Wagering Western Australia. He was Vice Chancellor and President of Murdoch University from 2002-2011. He was instrumental in the formation of and Chaired the Innovative Research Universities Australia (IRUA) group. John was a ... Continue Reading »

Born: 1942, Melbourne Suzanne Cory obtained her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science from the University of Melbourne and a PhD from Cambridge, Apart from three years of postdoctoral studies at the University of Geneva, she has spent all of her working life at Melbourne's renowned Walter ... Continue Reading »

Born: 1940, Brisbane Educated at the University of Queensland and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Peter Doherty returned to Australia to conduct his Nobel Prize-winning research at the John Curtin School of Medical Research in Canberra. Professor Doherty's research focuses on the immune system, particularly how the body's ... Continue Reading »

Born: 1953, Glasgow, Scotland Ian Frazer trained as a physician, specialising in immunology, at Edinburgh University. He emigrated to Melbourne in 1980 to research viral immunology at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, and moved to Queensland in 1985. Professor Frazer founded the University of Queensland's ... Continue Reading »

Born: 1948, Brisbane, Australia Martin Green was educated at the University of Queensland and completed his PhD on a Commonwealth Scholarship at McMaster University in Canada, where he specialised in solar energy. In 1974, at the University of NSW, he started the Solar Photovoltaics Group to work on ... Continue Reading »

Born: 1951, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia Barry Marshall received a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Western Australia in 1975. Together with J. Robin Warren he proved that  Helicobacter pylori is the bacterial cause of most stomach ulcers. For decades medical orthodoxy had ... Continue Reading »

Born: 1922, Manitoba, Canada Harry Messel was educated at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and served during World War II as a paratrooper with the Canadian Forces. He moved to Australia in 1951 and lectured in mathematical physics at the University of Adelaide before being appointed in ... Continue Reading »

Born: 1973 Professor Tanya Monro was educated at The University of Sydney, where she was awarded the Bragg Gold Medal and an Eleanor Sophia Wood Travelling Fellowship. She is the inaugural chair of Photonics and director of the Centre of Expertise in Photonics within the School of Chemistry ... Continue Reading »

Born: 1931, Bad Ischl, Austria Sir Gustav Nossal arrived in Australia from Vienna when he was eight years old. He graduated from Sydney University's Medical School with first class honours and gained his PhD degree in 1960. Sir Gustav is one of Australia's most celebrated scientists. His research accomplishments ... Continue Reading »

Fiona Stanley AC is the Founding Director and Patron of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and Distinguished Research Professor, School of Paediatrics & Child Health at the University of Western Australia, Vice Chancellor’s Fellow and Director, Festival of Ideas 2013 at the University of Melbourne.Trained in maternal and ... Continue Reading »

Born: 1937, Adelaide Robin Warren studied medicine at Adelaide University and trained at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He went on to become Registrar in Clinical Pathology at the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Royal Adelaide Hospital, working in laboratory haematology, which sparked his interest in pathology. Subsequently he lectured in ... Continue Reading »

Susan Greenfield is a neuroscientist at the University of Oxford and has been awarded 30 Honorary Degrees from British and foreign universities. She heads a multi-disciplinary research group exploring novel brain mechanisms linked to neurodegenerative diseases. In addition, she has published a neuroscientific theory of consciousness: The Private Life of ... Continue Reading »

Born: 1944, High Wickham, UK Robyn Williams has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from the University of London. He joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Science Unit in 1972 where in 1975 he began hosting the award-winning Science Show, now one of the longest-running programs on Australian radio. He has also made ... Continue Reading »

Born: 1958, Yorkshire, UK Professor Fiona Wood graduated from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in London in 1981 and migrated to Perth in 1987 with her husband and two children. She completed her training in plastic surgery between having four more children. She is the director of the Royal Perth Hospital ... Continue Reading »