Dedicated to David Solomon for services to Science in Polymer Chemistry and in assisting in the transfer of the technology related to Australia’s paper bank notes to plastic banknotes.
Robert Alfred Dewar, FTSE (1908-1981). Associate Research Manager, Exploratory Division, ICIANZ
Central Research Laboratories, Ascot Vale, Victoria. Awarded Grimwade Prize in Industrial Chemistry, 1962 and
1968; H. G. Smith Memorial Medal, 1967 for contributions to Australian industrial chemistry.
Professor Frances Separovic AO FAA. Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Melbourne. First woman elected as a chemist to the Academy in 2012.
Professor Alison Rodger FAA FRSC (1959 -). Biophysical chemist. Elected to the Academy in 2021. Dedicated to Mark Rodger, her family, friends, and collaborators.
Professor Colin L Raston AO FAA has made seminal contributions to inorganic, organometallic, supramolecular and green chemistry, nanoscience, nanotechnology and flow chemistry. In 2015, he shared an Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for inventing a chemical recipe to partially un-boil an egg". In 2016, Raston was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his services to science. Elected to the Academy in 2018.
Professor Jennifer L Martin AC FAA. Elected to the Academy in 2017. Internationally renowned protein crystallographer, and gender equity and diversity advocate. Dedicated to family, friends and colleagues who supported me in my journey, and to the Australian Academy of Science for promoting science, diversity and evidence-based decision-making.
Professor Lewis Norman Mander AC FAA FRS (1939 - 2020). Organic chemistry, plant regulators. Elected to the Academy in 1983. Dedicated by Professor Leo Radom AC FAA to a colleague and friend.
