Awards for Scientific Excellence – Call for Nominations

Each year the Australian Academy of Science rewards scientific excellence. Honorific awards are made to early-career researchers under 40 and to career reseachers for life-long achievements. Some awards are offered biennially.

In addition to honorific awards, the Academy supports research through the sponsorship of conferences that focus on rapidly developing fields of research and the award of travelling fellowships.

Nominations close 30 August 2008.

Early Career Research Awards
Anton Hales Medal (Earth sciences)
Dorothy Hill Award (Earth sciences, reef sciences, marine geology and taxonomy)
Fenner Medal (biology – excluding biomedical sciences)
Frederick White Prize (physical, terrestrial and planetary sciences)
Gottschalk Medal (medical sciences)
Le Fèvre Memorial Prize (chemistry)
Moran Medal (statistical science)
Pawsey Medal (physics)
Ruth Stephens Gani Medal (human genetics including clinical, molecular, population and epidemiological genetics and cytogenetics)

Career Awards
David Craig Medal (chemistry)
Haddon Forrester King Medal, sponsored by Rio Tinto (mineral exploration)
Hannan Medal (mathematical sciences)
Jaeger Medal (Australian Earth sciences)
Lyle Medal (mathematics or physics)
Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture (biological sciences) (nominations from Academy Fellows only)