14 June 1924 – 4 December 2015
Leo ClarebroughDr Leo Clarebrough was elected to the Academy in 1978 for his distinguished contributions to physical metallurgy and metal physics, including his work developing high-precision differential calorimetry for metal defects using electron microscopy.
The Academy’s 2016 public speaker series Bots, bacteria and booze: science of the everyday kicked off with a sold-out talk by Academy Fellow Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte FAA FRS FTSE in February.
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A comprehensive set of teaching and learning resources for early high-school teachers to implement the national science curriculum is now available through the Academy’s Science by Doing website.
Science by Doing, the Academy’s online high-school science program, has recently released a Year 8 geology unit, ‘Rock your world’. This completes the full suite of Year 7 to 10 units which can be accessed for free by registering at the Science by Doing website.
Primary Connections, the Academy’s science program for primary school students and teachers, has released three new teaching units: ‘Dinosaurs and more’, ‘Creators and destroyers’ and ‘Among the gum trees’. The latter unit was developed in collaboration with the Bjarne K Dahl Trust.
Epigeneticist Associate Professor Cath Suter and physicist Professor Yuri Kivshar FAA are the latest scientists to be interviewed for the Academy’s Brain Box series.
Associate Professor Suter studies the layer of information that sits on top of our genes, called epigenes. This information can switch our genetic code on or off and have major implications for disease.
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