Professor Stephen Schneider, a prominent Stanford University scientist who served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has died at 65.
Tue Jul 20, 2010
Professor Stephen Schneider, a prominent Stanford University scientist who served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has died at 65.
Tue Oct 7, 2008
World-renowned Australian flu expert and Australia Prize winner, Professor Graeme Laver died in Europe on 26 September after a succumbing to stomach cancer. Here colleague Professor Adrian Gibbs responds.
Thu Aug 21, 2008
An Australian expert responds to the tragic news that a Brisbane vet has died from Hendra virus. Dr Ben Cunneen is reported to have died overnight in Princess Alexandra Hospital after contracting the virus last month while working with horses at the Redlands Veterinary Clinic in Brisbane.
Thu Apr 17, 2008
Mathematician, meteorologist and father of chaos theory, Edward Lorenz has died in Massachusetts at the age of 90. Australian scientists comment below.
Fri Mar 14, 2008
Australian experts comment on the death of one of the country’s leading water experts – Peter Cullen. Peter was hugely influential as a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists and as a commissioner of Australia’s National Water Commission. He was a former president of the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies and [...]
Fri Jan 11, 2008
Australian experts comment on the legacy of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to reach the summit of Mt Everest, who died in New Zealand today at the age of 88.
Thu Jan 3, 2008
Bert Bolin, the leading Swedish climate scientist and co-founder of the UN’s Nobel Prize award-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has died of stomach cancer aged 82. Bert Bolin served as the first chairman of the IPCC from 1988 to 1998.
Sun Jan 15, 2006
Justice John Lockhart died in Sydney on Friday (13 January) after a short illness. He will be well remembered for his work in chairing the Lockhart Review of Australia’s stem cell legislation. Here stem cell scientists react to his death.