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TWO AUSTRALIAN SCIENTISTS ELECTED TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON
14 May 2002

Two Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science have been elected Fellows of the prestigious Royal Society. Each year 42 new Fellows and up to 6 new Foreign Members are elected from among distinguished scientists. Election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society is recognised worldwide as a sign of the highest regard in science. Fellows are drawn from citizens of, and those normally resident in, British Commonwealth countries and the Irish Republic. Foreign Members are drawn from scientists from other countries. At July 2001 there were 1216 Fellows and 113 Foreign Members.

The new Fellows are Professor Bruce Kemp FAA and Professor Graham Goodwin FAA, FTSE. Professor Kemp is the Deputy Director and NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow at St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, specialising in biochemistry, molecular biology and immunology. Professor Graham Goodwin is a Director of the Centre for Integrated Dynamics and Control at the University of Newcastle, specialising in applied physics, engineering, materials, information technology and industrial innovation.

In congratulating the new Fellows, the Academy's President, Dr Jim Peacock, said ‘It is a great pleasure to see this recognition of two top Australian scientists. Besides the honour of election to their national Academy, Professor Kemp and Professor Goodwin have also been greatly honoured by their overseas peers’. The current Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science numbers 342, of whom 63 are also Fellows of the Royal Society.

One Corresponding member of the Australian Academy of Science, Dr Peter Raven, Director, Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, USA, was also elected to the Royal Society this year.