Australian Scientists,
Nobel Prize Winners
The large number of Australian scientists who won the Nobel prize is a strong evidence of the high quality of education in Australia and especially of the reputation of the medical school. It is also a proof that research and innovation are top priorities of the various organisations involved in scientific work. Eleven famous Australians received the prestigious Nobel awards, ten for science and one for literature. This one went to novelist Patrick White in 1973.
Seven of the ten prizes awarded to scientists were for physiology or medicine, with the latest going to Elizabeth Blackburn in 2009. Born and educated in Australia, Elizabeth Blackburn is currently a biology researcher at the University of California in San Francisco. Among the many distinctions that acknowledged her career, she received an Australia Prize in 1998 for her contribution to molecular science. The other famous people from Australia who won the Nobel award for scientific research are: - Father and son William and Lawrence Bragg for physics in 1915;
- Howard Florey, in 1945 for the discovery of penicillin together with Alexander Fleming and Ernest Chain;
- Frank Macfarlane Burnet, for his work in immunology, in 1960;
- Neurophysiologist John Carew Eccles, in 1963 for his research on brain and synaptic transmission;
- John Warcup Cornforth, for chemistry in 1975;
- Peter Doherty, for his achievements in the field of the immune system, in 1996;
- Barry Marshall and Robin Warren for the discovery of a bacterium that causes ulcer and the innovations to the treatment of this disease, in 2005.
With the eleven Nobel awards, Australia can boast one laureat for every two million people, which is quite impressive.
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