David Syme Research Prize
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The David Syme Research Prize is an annual award administered by the University of Melbourne for the best original research work in biology, physics, chemistry or geology, produced in Australia during the preceding two years, particular preference is given to original research to enhance industrial and/or commercial development.[1]
The Prize was created at the university in 1904 when Melbourne newspaper publisher and owner of the The Age David Syme made a £3,000 bequest for the foundation of the prize. The first prize was awarded in 1906. The publishers of The Age have continued to fund the award. The prize consists of a medal and of the sum of AUD$1,000, which may be topped-up further by the publishers. The recipient(s) of the award is chosen by a council selected from the universities Faculty of Science.
[edit] Recipients
Over the course of the long history of the prize many notable Australian scientists have been included amongst its recipients [2]
- 1906 - Edward Henry Embly
- 1907 - Harold Launcelot Wilkinson
- 1908 - Basil Kilvington
- 1909 - Harold Ingemann Jensen
- 1910 - Henry George Chapman
- 1911 - Georgina Sweet
- 1912 - Charles Oswald and George Larcombe
- 1913 - Thomas Harvey Johnston
- 1914 - Joseph Masson Baldwin
- 1915 - Ernest Clayton Andrews, for his works on 'The Cobar Copper and Gold Field' and subsequent surveys
- 1916 - Charles Hedley
- 1917 - Henry Joseph Grayson
- 1918 - Thomas Griffith Taylor
- 1919 - Frank Leslie Stillwell
- 1920 - Frederick Chapman
- 1921 - Neil Hamilton Fairley
- 1922 - Henry George Smith
- 1923 - Frank Longstaff Apperley
- 1924 - Loftus Hills
- 1925 - James Stanley Rogers
- 1926 - Ernst Johannes Hartung
- 1927 - Harold Robert Dew and Irene Ethyl McLennan
- 1928 - Oscar Werner Tiegs
- 1929 - Charles Albert Edward Fenner
- 1930 - Reuben Thomas Patton
- 1931 - Cecil Ernest Eddy Edgar and Samuel John King
- 1932 - Arthur William Turner
- 1933 - Ian William Wark
- 1934 - Walter George Kannaluik and Leslie Harold Martin
- 1935 - Rupert Allan Willis
- 1936 - Donald Finlay and Fergusson Thomson
- 1937 - Austin Burton Evans and Roy Douglas Wright
- 1938 - No award
- 1939 - William Davies
- 1940 - Edwin Sherbon Hills and Howard Knox Worner
- 1941 - Frederick Alexander Singleton
- 1942 - Everton Rowe Trethewie
- 1943 - Brian John Grieve and Victor David Hopper
- 1944 - George Baker and Francis Norman Lahey
- 1945 - John Stewart Anderson and Frank Herbert Shaw
- 1946 - H. Leighton Kesteven and Fletcher Donaldson Cruikshank
- 1947 - Avon Maxwell Clark
- 1948 - Keith Leonard Sutherland
- 1949 - Frank John Fenner
- 1950 - C. Teichert
- 1954 - Herbert George Andrewartha and L. C. Birch [3]
- 1958 - Jack Hobart Piddington[4]
- 1969 - R. Colton, Jim Pittard Alan Kenneth Head
- 1973 - Malcolm Moore for his research work in the study of myeloid leukaimia
- 1976 - David H. Solomon[5]
- 1977 - Alan M. Bond[6]
- 1982 - Suzanne Cory[7]
- 1993 - Philip Beart[8]
- 1995 - Stephen Hyde and Steven Prawler
- 1998 - Paul Mulvaney
- 2001 - Geoff McFadden - Plasmodium research and Mark Humphrey[9]
- 2002 - Calum Drummond [10]
- 2004 - David Jackson for commercialization of synthetic peptide technology and Trevor Lithgow for discovery of the protein Omp85.[11]
- 2006 - Brendan Crabb - malaria research at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute[12]
[edit] References
- ^ University of Melbourne. Statutes and Regulations - R6.17 - David Syme Research Prize
- ^ University of Melbourne - Faculty of Science. David Syme Research Prize (1905 - )
- ^ Birch, Louis Charles (Charles) (1918 - ), The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre, 1994 - 2007
- ^ Physics in Australian to 1945 - Jack Hobart Piddington
- ^ Professor David H Solomon. University of Melbourne Faculty of Engineering
- ^ Bond, Alan, M.. CIRS profile
- ^ Cory, Suzanne (1942 - ). National Foundation for Australian Women on Australian Women's Archives Project Web Site, 2007
- ^ Professor Philip Beart. Howard Florey Institute
- ^ War on malaria wins Melbourne scientist Syme Research Prize, 17 May 2001, University News
- ^ Dr Calum Drummond: Chief of a new CSIRO Division, CSIRO Industrial Physics
- ^ UoM scientists win Syme prize, 16 - 30 May 2005 , UniNews
- ^ Dr Brendan Crabb wins David Syme Research Award, June 9 2006, WEHI News
