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Professor Elizabeth Blackburn AC FAA FRS—for her work on the prediction and discovery of telomerase and the role of telomeres in protecting and maintaining the genome.
Nobel Laureate and Academy Fellow Professor Brian Schmidt AC FAA FRS will be heading up one of Australia's leading universities.
Professor Schmidt, who was elected to the Academy in 2008, will be leading the Australian National University (ANU) from 1 January 2016.
More about Professor Schmidt's appointment
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