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SCIENCE ACADEMY ELECTS NEW MEMBERS
19 March 2008

Seventeen of Australia’s leading scientists were honoured on 19 March by election to the Australian Academy of Science.

Election to the Academy recognises a career that has significantly advanced, and continues to advance, the world’s scientific knowledge. Scientific contributions of the new Fellows cover a wide range of specialities that include immune response to pathogens; physics of supernovae; photosynthesis; plasma physics; population dynamics of vertebrates; solvable lattice models; and mammalian embryonic development. The new Fellows, elected in 2008 from Australian universities, CSIRO and medical research institutions, are:

Professor Antony Bacic FAA
distinguished for his work on the structure and biology of complex carbohydrates.
School of Botany, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010
Phone: 03 8344 5041 Fax: 03 9347 1071 Email: abacic@unimelb.edu.au
Website: www.plantcell.unimelb.edu.au/bacic.htm

Professor Murray Ronald Badger FAA
distinguished for his work on photosynthetic CO₂ acquisition and metabolism.
Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, PO Box 475, CANBERRA, ACT 2601
Phone: 02 6125 3741 Fax: 02 6125 5075 Email: murray.badger@anu.edu.au
Website: www.rsbs.anu.edu.au/Profiles/murray_badger/

Professor Roderick William Boswell FAA FAPS FTSE
distinguished for his work on basic and applied plasma physics.
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, CANBERRA, ACT 0200
Phone: 02 6249 3442 Fax: 02 6249 2575 Email: rod.boswell@anu.edu.au
Website: http://wwwrsphysse.anu.edu.au/~rwb112/SP3/Boswell/Boswell.html

Professor William Ross Heath FAA
distinguished for his work on the immune response to pathogens.
Deputy Head, Immunology Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, 1G Royal Parade, PARKVILLE, VIC 3050
Phone: 03 9345 2482 Fax: 03 9347 0852 Email: heath@wehi.edu.au
Website: http://www.wehi.edu.au/facweb/indexresearch.php?id=9

Professor Nalini Joshi FAA
distinguished for her work on the mathematical structure of nonlinear integrable systems: complex analysis.
Professor of Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006
Phone: 02 9351 2172 Fax: 02 9351 4534 Email: nalini@maths.usyd.edu.au
Website: www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/nalini/

Professor Peter Anthony Koopman FAA
distinguished for his work on developmental biology, molecular genetics, SRY maleness gene.
Professorial Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, BRISBANE, QLD 4072
Phone: 07 3346 2059 Fax: 07 3346 2101 Email: p.koopman@imb.uq.edu.au
Website: www.imb.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=12016&pid=14031

Professor David Bruce Lindenmayer FAA
distinguished for his work on ecology: experimental and statistical analysis of the distribution, abundance and population dynamics of vertebrate populations.
Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University, CANBERRA, ACT 0200
Phone: 02 6125 0654 Fax: 02 6125 0757 Email: davidl@cres.anu.edu.au
Website: http://cres.anu.edu.au/people/userprofile.php?user=davidl

Professor Nicholas Martin FAA
distinguished for his work on psychology: genetics of human behaviour and complex diseases.
Senior Principal Research Scientist, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, BRISBANE, QLD 4029
Phone: 07 3362 0278 Fax: 07 3362 0101 Email: nick.martin@qimr.edu.au
Website: http://genepi.qimr.edu.au/staff/ngmartincv.html

Professor John Stanley Mattick AO FAA FRCPA
distinguished for his work on the structure of genetic systems in higher organisms.
Professor of Molecular Biology, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, ST LUCIA, QLD 4072
Phone: 07 3346 2079 Fax: 07 3346 2101 Email: j.mattick@imb.uq.edu.au
Website: www.imb.uq.edu.au/?page=12238&pid

Dame Bridget Ogilvie AC DBE FAA FRS
distinguished for her work on parasitology, science administration, research and education.
c/o Medical School Administration, University College London, Gower Street, LONDON WC1E 6 BT, UK
Phone: +44 20 7679 6939 Fax: +44 20 7383 2462

Professor Hugh O’Neill FAA
distinguished for his work on mineral thermodynamics and experimental petrology.
Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, CANBERRA, ACT 0200
Phone: 02 6125 5159 Fax: 02 6125 8253 Email: hugh.oneill@anu.edu.au
Website: http://rses.anu.edu.au/em/ep/profiles/ONeill/index.html

Professor Brian Paul Schmidt FAA
distinguished for his work on cosmology, physics of supernovae and gamma ray bursts, and ‘Dark Energy’.
ARC Federation Fellow, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australian National University, Cotter Road, WESTON CREEK, ACT 2611
Phone: 02 6125 8042 Fax: 02 6215 0260 Email: brian@mso.anu.edu.au
Website: http://msowww.anu.edu.au/~brian/

Professor Patrick Ping Leung Tam FAA FIBiol
distinguished for his work on mammalian embryonic development.
Head, Embryology Unit, Children’s Medical Research Institute, Locked Bag 23, WENTWORTHVILLE, NSW 2145
Phone: 02 9687 2800 Fax: 02 9687 2120 Email: ptam@cmri.usyd.edu.au
Website: www.cmri.com.au/cmri.php?page=153#profile4

Professor Geoffrey Tregear FAA FRACI
distinguished for his work on peptide synthesis, the chemistry and biology of parathyroid hormone and relaxin family peptides.
Deputy Director, Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010
Phone: 03 8344 1807 Fax: 03 9347 0446 Email: g.tregear@hfi.unimelb.edu.au
Website: www.florey.edu.au/about/management-and-staff/senior-management-and-admin-staff/geoffrey-tregear/

Professor Matthew Paul Wand FAA
distinguished for his work on nonparametric function estimation.
School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, NSW 2522
Phone: 02 4221 3556 Fax: 02 4221 4845 Email: mwand@uow.edu.au
Website: www.uow.edu.au/~mwand/

Professor Sven Ole Warnaar FAA
distinguished for his work on solvable lattice models, special functions, q-series and algebraic combinatorics.
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010
Phone: 03 8344 5214 Fax: 03 8344 4599 Email: warnaar@ms.unimelb.edu.au
Website: www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~warnaar/

Professor Howard Mark Wiseman FAA
distinguished for his work on quantum measurement and control theory.
Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University, NATHAN, QLD 4111
Phone: 07 3735 7279 Fax: 07 3735 7656 Email: h.wiseman@griffith.edu.au
Website: www.cit.gu.edu.au/~s285238/