P007224 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Award created 2023-05-11 human Helen Cohn updated 2026-04-22 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007224b.htm culturalArtefact David Syme Research Prize The University of Melbourne AACR2 David Syme Foundation Research Prize David Syme Medal 1904 Award The David Syme Research Prize has been awarded annually by the University of Melbourne since 1906. It recognises the best original work in physics, chemistry, biology or geology conducted in Australia in the preceeding two years, the selection being made by a committee of the Faculty of Science. The Prize was initiated in 1904 with a bequest from newspaper proprietor David Syme to establish such a prize. Piddington, John Hobart (1910 - 1997)

Awarded the Prize 1958

 Baker, George (1908 - 1975)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1944

 Cruickshank, Fletcher Donaldson (1908 - 1990)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1946

 Sutherland, Keith Leonard (1916 - 1980)

Awarded the Prize 1948

 Gottschalk, Alfred (1894 - 1973)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1951

 Worner, Hill Wesley (1917 - 2002)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1951

 Waterhouse, Douglas Frew (1916 - 2000)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1953

 Dwyer, Francis Patrick John (1910 - 1962)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1953

 Mathieson, Alexander McLeod (Sandy) (1920 - 2011)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1954

 Underwood, Antony James (Tony) (1947 - )

Awarded the Prize 1987

 Priestley, Charles Henry Brian (Bill) (1915 - 1998)

Awarded the Prize 1956

 Wright, Roy Douglas (Pansy) (1907 - 1990)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1937

 Brown, Ronald Drayton (1927 - 2008)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1959

 Gibson, Frank William Ernest (1923 - 2008)

Awarded the Prize 1963

 Metcalf, Donald (1929 - 2014)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1964

 Pryor, Arthur William (1928 - 2014)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1964

 Swan, John Melvin (1924 - 2015)

Awarded the Prize 1965

 Nichol, Lawrence Walter (1935 - 2015)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1966

 White, Guy Kendall (1925 - 2018)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1966

 The University of Melbourne (1853 - )

The University inaugurated the Prize in 1904: the first award was made in 1906

 Dick, Alexander Thomas (1911 - 1982)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1954

 Hopper, Victor David (1913 - 2005)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1943

 Grayson, Henry Joseph (1856 - 1918)

Awarded the Prize 1917

 Taylor, Thomas Griffith (1880 - 1963)

Awarded the Prize 1918

 Chapman, Frederick (1864 - 1943)

Awarded the Prize 1920

 Patton, Reuben Tom (1883 - 1962)

Awarded the Prize 1930

 Eddy, Cecil Ernest (1900 - 1956)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1931

 King, Edgar Samuel John (1900 - 1966)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1931

 Turner, Arthur William (1900 - 1989)

Awarded the Prize 1932

 Thomson, Donald Finlay Fergusson (1901 - 1970)

Awarded the Prize 1936

 Grieve, Brian John (1907 - 1997)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1943

 Christiansen, Wilbur Norman (Chris) (1913 - 2007)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1959

 Worner, Howard Knox (1913 - 2006)

Awarded the Prize (shared) 1940

 Kesteven, Hereward Leighton (1881 - 1964)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1946

 Kilvington, Basil (1877 - 1947)

Awarded the Prize 1908

 Rathgeber, Henri Daniel (1908 - 1995)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1952

 Rogers, James Stanley (1893 - 1977)

Awarded the Prize 1925

 Shaw, Frank Herbert (1910 - 1971)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1945

 Tiegs, Oscar Werner (1897 - 1956)

Awarded the Prize 1928

 Martin, Leslie Harold (1900 - 1983)

Awarded the Prize (shared) 1934

 Willis, Rupert Allan (1898 - 1980)

Awarded the Prize 1935

 Andrews, Ernest Clayton (1870 - 1948)

Awarded the Prize 1915

 Fenner, Charles Albert Edward (1884 - 1955)

Awarded the Prize 1929

 Head, Alan Kenneth (1925 - 2010)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1969

 Sweet, Georgina (1875 - 1946)

Awarded the Prize 1911

 Jensen, Harald Ingemann (1879 - 1966)

Awarded the Prize 1909

 Chapman, Henry George (1879 - 1934)

Awarded the Prize 1910

 Hartung, Ernst Johannes (1893 - 1979)

Awarded the Prize 1926

 Dew, Harold Robert (1891 - 1962)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1927

 Hills, Edwin Sherbon (1906 - 1986)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1940

 Samuels, Leonard Ernest (1922 - 2009)

Awarded the Prize 1957

 Spicer, Brian Milton (1928 - 2004)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1960

 Drummond, Calum John (1960 - )

Awarded the Prize 2002

 Pittard, Alfred James (1932 - )

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1969

 Weiss, Anthony Steven

Awarded the Prize 1999

 Hargreaves, Maxwell Edgar (1923 - 1976)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1970

 Stanton, Richard Limon (1926 - 2020)

Awarded the Prize 1972

 Paltridge, Garth William (1940 - )

Awarded the Prize 1975

 Bond, Alan Maxwell (1946 - )

Awarded the Prize 1978

 Baldwin, Joseph Mason (1878 - 1945)

Awarded the Prize 1914

 Davies, William (1895 - 1966)

Awarded the Prize 1939

 Embley, Edward Henry (1861 - 1924)

Inaugural recipient of the Prize 1906

 McLennan, Ethel Irene (1891 - 1983)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1927

 Birch, Louis Charles (Charles) (1918 - 2009)

Awarded the Prize (shared) 1955

 Clarebrough, Leo Michael (1924 - 2015)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1961

 Wark, Ian William (1899 - 1985)

Awarded the Prize 1933

 Smith, Frank Andrew (Andrew) (1940 - )

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1981

 Anderson, John Stuart (1908 - 1990)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1945

 Andrewartha, Herbert George (1907 - 1992)

Awarded the Prize (shared) 1955

 Adams, Jerry McKee (1940 - )

Awarded the Prize (with Suzanne Cory) 1982

 Cory, Suzanne (1942 - )

Awarded the Prize (with Jerry Adams) 1982

 Hedley, Charles (1862 - 1926)

Awarded the Prize 1916

 Fairley, Neil Hamilton (1891 - 1966)

Awarded the Prize 1921

 Smith, Henry George (1852 - 1924)

Awarded the Prize 1922

 Crabb, Brendan Scott (1966 - )

Awarded the Prize 2005

 Fenner, Frank John (1914 - 2010)

Awarded the Prize 1949

 Johnston, Thomas Harvey (1881 - 1951)

Awarded the Prize 1913

 Stillwell, Frank Leslie (1888 - 1963)

Awarded the Prize 1919

 Kannuluik, Walter George (1894 - 1956)

Awarded the Prize (shared) 1934

 Boardman, Norman Keith (Keith) (1926 - )

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1967

 O'Donnell, Thomas Aloysius (Tom) (1923 - 2010)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1968

 Sullivan, John Vincent (Jack) (1924 - 2013)

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1968

 Bradbury, James Howard (Howard) (1927 - 2016)

Awarded the Prize (jointly)1970

 Solomon, David Henry (1929 - )

Awarded the Prize 1976

 Israelachvili, Jacob Nissim (1944 - 2018)

Awarded the Prize 1983

 Bray, Igor

Awarded the Prize 1995

 Loftus-Hills, Clive (1885 - 1967)

Awarded the Prize 1924

 'David Syme Research Prize', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology David Syme Research Prize Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: No place for a woman?: Intersections of class, modernity and colonialism in the gendering of Australian Science, 1885-1940 Carey, Jane No place for a woman?: Intersections of class, modernity and colonialism in the gendering of Australian Science, 1885-1940 Penrith, New South Wales Australian Women's History Network 2001 Lilith: A Feminist History Journal 10 153-172