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SCIENCE ACADEMY ELECTS 12 MEMBERS FROM AUSTRALIA'S BEST SCIENTISTS AND TECHNOLOGISTS
24 March 2000

Twelve of Australia’s leading scientists were today honoured by election to the Australian Academy of Science.

There are only 311 Fellows of the Academy at present with twelve new Fellows elected each year. Election to the Fellowship recognises a career that has significantly advanced the world’s store of scientific knowledge. The new Fellows come from NSW, Victoria Queensland and Western Australia. They are:-

Professor Bruce Armstrong, 55, Director, Cancer Control Information Centre, New South Wales Cancer Council, Sydney
Telephone: (02) 9334 1837 e-mail brucea@nswcc.org.au
Field: public health science

Professor Adrian Baddeley, 44, Professor of Mathematics (Probability and Statistics), University of Western Australia
Telephone: (08) 9380 3342 e-mail: adrian@maths.uwa.edu.au
Field: image analysis, spatial statistics, stochastic geometry and stereology

Professor Julie Campbell, 53, Senior Principal Research Fellow, NHMRC, Centre for Research in Vascular Biology, University of Queensland
Telephone: (07) 3365 4658 e-mail: julie.campbell@mailbox.uq.edu.au
Field: cell biology; cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis

Professor Victor Flambaum, 48, Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Telephone: (02) 9385 4571
Field: atomic physics, nuclear physics

Dr Bruce Kemp, 53, Deputy Director, Senior Principal Research Fellow NHMRC, St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Fitzroy, Victoria
Telephone: (03) 9288 2480
Field: biochemistry; molecular basis of protein kinases used in the design of drugs

Professor Keith Nugent, 40, Head of School and Professor of Physics, University of Melbourne
Telephone: (03) 9344 5420 e-mail: k.nugent@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Field: x-ray optics in astronomy

Professor Mark Randolph, 48, Professor of Civil Engineering, director of the Special Research Centre for Offshore Foundations and Head of Geomechanics Group, University of Western Australia
Telephone: (08) 9380 3075 e-mail: randolph@civil.uwa.edu.au
Field: foundations for offshore structures; piles and pile groups (the commonest form of foundation used onshore and offshore)

Professor Peter Reeves, 65, Head of Department, Microbiology Department, University of Sydney
Telephone: (02) 9351 2536 e-mail: reeves@angis.usyd.edu.au
Field: bacterial genetics; vaccine development

Professor Richard Robson, 62, Associate Professor, School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne
Telephone: (03) 9344 6469
Field: inorganic chemistry, "binucleating ligands" and coordination polymers

Professor Lesley Joy Rogers, 56, Professor of Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour, School of Biological Sciences, University of New England, Armidale
Telephone: (02) 6773 3969 e-mail: lrogers@metz.une.edu.au
Field: brain development and behaviour

Professor Joseph Sambrook, 60, Director of Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Melbourne
Telephone: (03) 9656 1513 email: sambrook@petermac.unimelb.edu.au
Field: cancers; melanoma

Professor Curt Wentrup, 57, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Queensland
Telephone: (07) 3365 3817 e-mail: wentrup@chemistry.uq.edu.au
Field: organic and physical chemistry - carbenes and nitrenes

The Australian Academy of Science is a private organisation comprising Australia’s leading research scientists. It recognises research excellence, advises government, sponsors scientific conferences, publishes scientific books and journals, conducts international relations and fosters science education and public awareness of science and technology.