Tue Oct 4, 2011
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2011 with one half to Saul Perlmutter, USA and the other half jointly to Brian P. Schmidt, The High-z Supernova Search Team, Australian National University, Australia and Adam G. Riess, USA “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of [...]
Tue Oct 6, 2009
Experts respond to the announcement last night that Australian born scientist, Elizabeth Blackburn, is one of three winners of the Nobel Prize for medicine.
Thu Oct 16, 2008
The 2008 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science is being announced at a black tie ceremony at the Great Hall of Parliament House in Canberra tonight (Thursday 16 October 2008).
Mon Oct 16, 2006
Australia’s most prestigious annual science prizes were awarded at a black tie ceremony at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 16 October 2006.
Wed Oct 11, 2006
Tasmanian born scientist Elizabeth Blackburn opened up a huge area of research when she and her colleagues discovered telomerase, the enzyme that repairs the ends of chromosomes, which are called telomeres. It transformed our understanding of how cells age and die. She is also famous for taking a stand against the politicisation of science when she was [...]
Thu Oct 5, 2006
The prize has gone to Roger D. Kornberg Stanford University “for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription”: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2006/press.html
Wed Oct 4, 2006
The Nobel Prize for Physics, 2006 has gone to John C Mather and George F Smoot for their discovery of the blackbody form and fluctuations of cosmic microwave background radiation.