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University of Adelaide
The University of Adelaide (colloquially Adelaide University or Adelaide Uni) is a public university located in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third oldest university in Australia. It has produced five Nobel laureates, 101 Rhodes scholars and is a member of the Group of...
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William Henry Bragg
Sir William Henry Bragg OM, KBE (2 July 1862 – 10 March 1942) was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sporstman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg - the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Bragg was...
Derek Abbott
Derek Abbott (3 May 1960, in South Kensington, London, UK) is a physicist and electronic engineer. He is a Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is notable for leading theoretical work in the...
George Szekeres
George Szekeres (pronounced [ˈsɛkɛrɛʃ]; 29 May 1911 – 28 August 2005) was a Hungarian-Australian mathematician.
Szekeres was born in Budapest, Hungary and received his degree in chemistry at the Technical University of Budapest. He worked six years...
Paul Davies
Paul Charles William Davies AM (born 22 April 1946) is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, currently a professor at Arizona State University as well as the Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He has held...
Charles E. M. Pearce
Charles Edward Miller Pearce (29 March 1940, Wellington) is a New Zealand/Australian mathematician. He is currently the Elder Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Adelaide.
He earned his Bachelor of Science (a double major in...
James Arthur Prescott
James Arthur Prescott, CBE, FRS, (7 October 1890-6 February 1987) was an agricultural scientist.
Prescott was born in England, educated at the University of Manchester achieving Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in 1911. The following...
Renfrey Potts
Professor Renfrey Burnard (Ren) Potts AO, (1925–2005), BSc(Hons) (Adel), D Phil (Oxon), DSc (Oxon), FAA, FTSE, FACS, FAustMS is notable for the Potts model and his achievements in: operations research, especially networks; transportation science,...
Lew Mander
Lewis N. Mander, FAA, FRS (b. September 8, 1939) is a New Zealand organic chemist. He has widely explored the synthesis and chemistry of the gibberellin class of diterpenes over a 20 year period.
Lew Mander completed a BSc degree at the University...
T. L. Burton
T. L. Burton (Thomas Lingen (Tom) Burton; born 1944) is a professor at the University of Adelaide and a reputed scholar of medieval English literature, language, and dialectics. He is the editor of the two volume Sidrak and Bokkus, which once was...
Andrew Taylor
Andrew McDonald Taylor (born 19 March 1940) was one of the leading Australian poets of the 1970s. Although he lacks the public profile of several of his contemporaries, he has since come to be regarded as a major figure in Australian poetry, with a...
Rod Crewther
Rodney James Crewther (born 1945) is a physicist, notable in the field of gauge field theories.
After gaining his MSc at Melbourne University, Crewther was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to the California Institute of Technology. He studied under...
Mathai Varghese
Mathai Varghese is a mathematician and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Australian Professorial Fellow at the University of Adelaide. His most influential contribution to date is the Mathai-Quillen formalism, which he formulated together with...
William Mitchell
Sir William Mitchell (27 March 1861 – 24 June 1962) was Professor of English Language, Literature and Mental and Moral Philosophy at the University of Adelaide from 1894–1922, Vice-Chancellor 1916–1942 and Chancellor 1942–1948.
Mitchell wrote about...
Tim Flannery
Professor Tim Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, and environmental and global warming activist.
Flannery was named Australian of the Year in 2007 and is presently a professor at Macquarie University. He is...
Keith Hancock
Sir William Keith Hancock KBE (26 June 1898-13 August 1988) was an Australian historian, born in Melbourne, Australia. The son of Archdeacon William Hancock, he was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and later the University of Melbourne. At the...
Tristram Cary
Tristram Ogilvie Cary, OAM (14 May 1925 – 24 April 2008) was a pioneering English composer.
Cary was born in Oxford, England and educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and Westminster School in London. He was the son of a pianist and the novelist,...
J. J. C. Smart
John Jamieson Carswell "Jack" Smart AC (born 1920), often referred to as J.J.C. Smart, is an Australian emeritus professor of philosophy at Monash University, Australia. He works in the fields of metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of...
