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    2019 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science: don’t call us.

    4 October, 201917 March, 2020

    For information about the 2019 Prizes please visit www.industry.gov.au/pmscienceprizes. We had a great run with the Prizes from 2004 to 2018. But all good things come to an end. So please don’t contact us for media information, go straight to the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science at media@industry.gov.au. We will be at the dinner…

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    The breathing Earth, light beams, frogs, crystals, guidewires: The 2018 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science

    17 October, 201826 September, 2019

    The 2018 recipients were: Revealing the breathing planet, sea levels and precise navigation: Emeritus Professor Kurt Lambeck AO, ANU, Canberra, $250,000 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science Switching light for faster, more reliable internet: The Finisar team, Sydney, $250,000 Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation Saving frogs, and revealing new extinction threats: Adjunct Research Fellow Lee Berger,…

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    Revealing the breathing Earth: The 2018 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science

    17 October, 201826 September, 2019

    Emeritus Professor Kurt Lambeck AO Emeritus Professor Kurt Lambeck AO has revealed how our planet changes shape—every second, every day, and over millennia. These changes influence sea levels, the movement of continents, and the orbits of satellites. Kurt’s original work in the 1960s enabled accurate planning of space missions. It led him to use the…

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    Switching light for faster, more reliable internet: The 2018 Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation

    17 October, 201826 September, 2019

    The Finisar team: Dr Simon Poole, Mr Andrew Bartos, Dr Glenn Baxter and Dr Steven Frisken Finisar have created technologies that make global internet connections faster and more efficient. About half of the world’s internet traffic travels through devices developed by the team and made in Sydney. The global internet we rely on is carried by…

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    Saving frogs, and revealing new extinction threats: The 2018 Frank Fenner Prize for Life Scientist of the Year

    17 October, 201826 September, 2019

    Dr Lee Berger Dr Lee Berger solved the global mystery of disappearing frogs and challenged paradigms about wildlife health, all in the course of her PhD. Starting in the 1970s frogs disappeared in pristine habitats in Queensland and in Central America. Whole species vanished; there was worldwide concern. Was it pollution or UV from the…

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    Making flexible crystals and new separation technologies: The 2018 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year

    17 October, 201826 September, 2019

    Associate Professor Jack Clegg Our smartphones, like all modern electronic devices, are packed with crystal semiconductors. When we drop them, it’s not just the screen that breaks. Crystals as we know them are brittle, but that will change in the future. Associate Professor Jack Clegg has designed new kinds of crystals that are so flexible…

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    A steerable guidewire to improve the treatment of heart disease: The 2018 Prize for New Innovators

    17 October, 201826 September, 2019

    Dr Geoff Rogers Dr Geoff Rogers has created a robotic guidewire that cardiologists can steer with a joystick through the body to reach a damaged artery. The use of guidewires has replaced open heart surgery for many cardiac patients. However, about 20 per cent of cardiac patients can’t be treated using current guidewire technology, which…

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    A school where everyone teaches science: The 2018 Prime Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in Primary Schools

    17 October, 201826 September, 2019

    Mr Brett Crawford Mr Brett Crawford has transformed science teaching at Warrigal Road State School in Brisbane. All the school’s 50-plus teachers now actively teach science in their classes. Warrigal Road is a large primary school in Brisbane with more than 1,300 students. The students are from 54 cultures, English is a second language for…

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    Opening young eyes to careers in science, technology, engineering and maths: Prime Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching in Secondary Schools

    17 October, 201826 September, 2019

    Dr Scott Sleap Cessnock in New South Wales was traditionally a mining town, but today’s high-value jobs in the Hunter Valley are in agriculture, tourism and increasingly in aerospace. Williamtown is already a maintenance base for Australia’s F/A-18 fighters. Soon it will be a maintenance hub for the Joint Strike Fighter in the Asia-Pacific. Many…

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    2017 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science

    19 October, 201726 September, 2019

    The winners of the 2017 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science are: Jenny Graves (La Trobe University, Melbourne)—Prime Minister’s Prize for Science Eric Reynolds (The University of Melbourne/Oral Health CRC)—Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation Jian Yang (The University of Queensland)—Frank Fenner Prize for Life Scientist of the Year Dayong Jin (University of Technology Sydney)—Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical…

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