Fellows' biographical memoirs

Professor William (Bill) Budd was a founding figure in Australian glaciology, and the first glaciology program leader of the Australian Antarctic Division.

William Swinbank was a meteorological physicist who served as Chief Research Scientist at CSIRO for 10 years, where he advanced the field of micrometeorology and helped establish ozone monitoring in Australia.

William Hayes, physician, microbiologist and geneticist, made his own special contribution to modern genetics and molecular biology in a manner quite different from that of any of his contemporaries. Bill, as he was universally known, was an unlikely candidate for such distinction. It is interesting to speculate on the events that transformed someone likely to have had a distinguished but still traditional medical career into a world renowned scientist who influenced a whole generation of microbiologists and geneticists.

Professor Bill Wittrick FAA FRS was an engineer known for advancing theory in elasticity, shell structures, and stability, who taught aeronautical engineering in Australia for 20 years.

Professor Bill Elliott made substantial contributions to biochemistry, including the discovery of enzyme systems, and established a biotechnology company.

Sir Ian Potter was a financier, stockbroker and philanthropist known for his support of the arts, science and education.

William Rogers was a zoologist known for his work in parsitology, who reshaped how scientists thought about host–parasite relationships.

William Rowan Browne was born on 11 December 1884 at Lislea, County Derry, Ireland, the sixth of eight children born to James and Henrietta Browne, National School teachers. On both sides he descended from families long-established in that country though, by his own account, without particular eminence for learning or public service.

William R. Levick was one of Australia’s most distinguished neuroscientists, making fundamental contributions to our understanding of the neural circuitry of the retina and the visual pathways.

W.S. Robinson was an influential industrialist who shaped Australian policy on metals during both World Wars, advising prime ministers and ensuring vital supplies of raw materials.