Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
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Archibald Liversidge
Archibald Liversidge, FRS, was an English-born Australian chemist and founder of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science.-Early life:...
as the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science to promote science. It was modelled on the British Association for the Advancement of Science
British Association for the Advancement of Science
frame|right|"The BA" logoThe British Association for the Advancement of Science or the British Science Association, formerly known as the BA, is a learned society with the object of promoting science, directing general attention to scientific matters, and facilitating interaction between...
. For many years, its annual meetings were a popular and influential way of promoting science in Australia and New Zealand. The current name has been used since 1930.
In the 1990s, membership and attendance at the annual meetings decreased as specialised scientific societies increased in popularity. Proposals to close the Association were discussed, but it continued after closing its office in Adelaide. It now operates on a smaller scale but is beginning to grow. The Annual Meetings are no longer held.
It holds lectures, for the medals and for other named lectures, both nationally and at state level.
Each year it organises Youth ANZAAS which is an annual residential scientific forum attended by students from Years 9, 10, 11 and 12 in Australian schools. Recent ones have been:-
- Youth ANZAAS 2010 - Sydney, New South Wales.
- Youth ANZAAS 2009 - Melbourne, Victoria.
- Youth ANZAAS 2008 - Dunedin, New Zealand.
- Youth ANZAAS 2007 - Perth, Western Australia.
- Youth ANZAAS 2006 - Adelaide, South Australia.
- Youth ANZAAS 2005 - Sydney, New South Wales.
- Youth ANZAAS 2004 - Sydney, New South Wales.
- Youth ANZAAS 2003 - Melbourne, Victoria.
- Youth ANZAAS 2002 - Adelaide, South Australia.
- Youth ANZAAS 2001 - Adelaide, South Australia.
Awards
The Association awards two important medals; the Mueller medal, named in honour of Ferdinand von MuellerFerdinand von Mueller
Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, KCMG was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist.-Early life:...
, botanist and pioneer environmentalist, and the ANZAAS medal.
ANZAAS Medal
The ANZAAS medal is awarded annually for services in the advancement of science or administration and organisation of scientific activities, or the teaching of science throughout Australia and New Zealand and in contributions to science which lie beyond normal professional activities.Sculptor Andor Meszaros designed the Medal, which was first awarded in 1965.
Recipients
- 1965 John Rustin Alfred McMillan
- 1967 Lionel Batley Bull
- 1968 Rutherford Ness Robertson
- 1969 Edward Holbrook DerrickEdward Holbrook DerrickEdward Holbrook Derrick was an Australian pathologist, best known for his role in identifying Q fever.Derrick was born in Victoria, and earned an M.D. from Melbourne University in 1922. He subsequently worked for a short period of time at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, and spent...
- 1970 Arthur Bache WalkomArthur Bache WalkomArthur Bache Walkom was an Australian palaeobotanist and museum director.Walkom was born in Grafton, New South Wales and moved with his family to Sydney where he was educated at Petersham Public and Fort Street Model schools and the University of Sydney graduating with a D.Sc. in 1918...
- 1971 John CrawfordJohn Crawford (economist)Sir John Grenfell Crawford AC CBE was an economist and a key architect of Australia's Post-War growth.Born in Sydney, among the positions he held were Adviser to the World Bank, Washington D.C., Director, Australian Japanese Economic Research Project, and Chairman, Advisory Board, Australian...
- 1972 Charles Alexander Fleming
- 1973 Ian William Wark
- 1975 Frederick William George White
- 1976 Eric John Underwood
- 1977 Herbert Cole Coombs
- 1979 Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant
- 1980 Frank John Fenner
- 1981 Geoffrey Malcolm Badger
- 1982 Gustav Joseph Victor Nossal
- 1983 Dorothy HillDorothy HillDorothy Hill, AC, CBE, FAA, FRS . She was an Australian geologist, the first female professor at an Australian university, and the first female president of the Australian Academy of Science.-Education:...
- 1984 John Paul WildJohn Paul WildDr John Paul Wild AC CBE MA ScD FRS FTSE FAA was a British-born Australian radio astronomer and national science leader who served as chairman of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 1978-1985.Paul Wild was born in Sheffield, England in 1923...
- 1985 Mollie Elizabeth Holman
- 1987 Robert Hanbury BrownRobert Hanbury BrownRobert Hanbury Brown, AC FRS was a British astronomer and physicist born in Aruvankadu, India. He made notable contributions to the development of radar and he later conducted pioneering work in the field of radio astronomy...
- 1988 Derek John Mulvaney
- 1990 Arthur John Birch
- 1991 Ralph Owen Slatyer
- 1992 John Robert de LaeterJohn Robert de LaeterJohn Robert de Laeter, AO, FTSE, FAIP was an Australian scientist with a distinguished career across several fields in Nuclear physics, Cosmochemistry, Geochronology, Isotope geochemistry...
- 1993 Benjamin Klaas Selinger
- 1994 John Melvin Swan
- 1995 Harry MesselHarry MesselHarry Messel is a retired Australian physicist and educator.Messel was born in Canada of Ukrainian parents. He was brought up in Levine Siding in Manitoba and attended Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. During the Second World War he served as a paratrooper with the Canadian Forces.Messel...
- 1996 Arvi ParboArvi ParboSir Arvi Hillar Parbo AC is a business executive who was concurrently chairman of three of Australia's largest companies....
- 1997 Graham Allen Ross Johnston
- 1998 Samuel Warren CareySamuel Warren CareySamuel Warren Carey AO was an Australian geologist who was an early advocate of the theory of continental drift. His work on plate tectonics reconstructions led him to develop the Expanding Earth hypothesis.- Biography :Carey was born in New South Wales and grew up on a farm three miles from...
- 1999 Donald Walter Watts
- 2004 Peter Raven
- 2005 David BlairDavid Blair (physicist)David G. Blair is an Australian physicist and professor of physics at the University of Western Australia and director of the Australian International Gravitational Research Centre. Blair works on methods for the detection of gravitational waves....
- 2006 Raymond Stalker
- 2007 John BoldemanJohn BoldemanProf. Dr. John Boldeman is an Australian nuclear scientist and recipient of the 2007 ANZAAS Medal. He was born in Longreach Queensland, the eldest of seven children born to Harold and Eileen Boldeman. He spent much of his childhood in Maryborough, Queensland and attended the Maryborough Christian...
Mueller Medal
The Medal is awarded annually to a scientist who is the author of important contributions to anthropological, botanical, geological or zoological science, preferably with special reference to Australia. It was initiated in 1902 and was designed by Baldwin Spencer.Recipients
- 1904 Alfred William HowittAlfred William HowittAlfred William Howitt was an Australian anthropologist and naturalist.-Background:Howitt was born in Nottingham, England, the son of authors William Howitt and Mary Botham. He came to the Victorian gold fields in 1852 with his father and brother to visit his uncle, Godfrey Howitt...
- 1907 James Peter HillJames Peter HillJames Peter Hill was a British embryologist.Born in Edinburgh he gained a DSc at Edinburgh University but went to Australia in 1892. In Australia he formed with a group dubbed "The Fraternity of Duckmaloi" that did studies on the platypus and was named for a noted "hunting ground" for the animal....
- 1909 Tannatt William Edgeworth David
- 1911 Robert EtheridgeRobert EtheridgeRobert Etheridge was an English geologist and palaeontologist.-Biography:Etheridge was born at Ross-on-Wye, in Herefordshire. After an ordinary school education in his native town, he obtained employment in a business house in Bristol...
- 1913 Walter HowchinWalter HowchinWalter Howchin was a geologist who lectured in mineralogy and palaeontology at the former Adelaide School of Mines and Adelaide University; he won the Clarke Medal in 1907.-Early life:...
- 1921 Richard Thomas BakerRichard Thomas BakerRichard Thomas Baker was an Australian economic botanist, museum curator and educator.-Early life:Baker was born in Woolwich, England, son of Richard Thomas Baker, a blacksmith, and his wife Sarah, née Colkett...
- 1922 Charles ChiltonCharles ChiltonCharles Chilton MBE is a BBC radio presenter, a writer and a producer. Born in Bloomsbury in London, England, he never knew his father - who was killed during World War I - and when he was six his mother died as a result of having a botched abortion, so he was raised by his grandmother. He was...
- 1923 Joseph Henry Maiden
- 1924 Andrew Gibb MaitlandAndrew Gibb MaitlandAndrew Gibb Maitland was an English-born Australian geologist.Maitland was born in Birkby, Yorkshire, England and studied civil engineering at Yorkshire College of Science, Leeds where he was influenced by the professor of geology Alexander Henry Green.In 1888 he was assigned Second Assistant...
- 1926 Frederic Wood JonesFrederic Wood JonesFrederic Wood Jones , usually referred to as Wood Jones, was a British observational naturalist, embryologist, anatomist and anthropologist, who spent considerable time in Australia....
- 1928 Leonard CockayneLeonard CockayneLeonard Cockayne FRS is regarded as New Zealand's greatest botanist and a founder of modern science in New Zealand.-Biography:He was born in Sheffield, England where he attended Wesley College...
- 1930 Douglas MawsonDouglas MawsonSir Douglas Mawson, OBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and Academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.-Early work:He was appointed geologist to an...
- 1932 John McConnell BlackJohn McConnell BlackJohn McConnell Black was a Scottish botanist who emigrated to Australia in 1877 and eventually documented and illustrated thousands of flora in South Australia in the early 20th century. His publications assisted many botanists and scientists in the decades that followed...
- 1935 Robin John Tillyard
- 1937 Ernest Willington SkeatsErnest Willington SkeatsErnest Willington Skeats was an English-Australian geologist.Skeats was born in Southampton, England, and was educated at Handel and Hartley colleges, Southampton, and entered the Royal College of Science, London, where he received a D.Sc...
- 1939 Thomas Harvey Johnston
- 1946 Earnest Clayton Andrews
- 1947? 1948? Cyril Tenison WhiteCyril Tenison WhiteCyril Tenison White was an Australian botanist.White was born in Brisbane to Henry White, a trade broker, and Louisa nee Bailey...
- 1949 William John Dakin
- 1951 William Noel BensonWilliam Noel BensonWilliam Noel Benson FRS FRGS was a research geologist and academic. After studying geology at the University of Sydney, Benson worked temporarily at the University of Adelaide before returning to Sydney as a demonstrator...
- 1952 Heber Albert Longman
- 1954 James Arthur PrescottJames Arthur PrescottJames Arthur Prescott, CBE, FRS, 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...
- 1955 Lionel Batley Bull
- 1957 Adolphus Peter Elkin
- 1958 Hedley Ralph Marston
- 1959 William Rowan BrowneWilliam Rowan BrowneWilliam Rowan Browne was an Australian geologist, author of The Geology of the Commonwealth of Australia.-Early life:Browne was born in Lislea, County Londonderry, Ireland, both parents were school teachers...
- 1961 Ian Murray MacKerrasIan Murray MackerrasIan Murray Mackerras was an Australian zoologist.Mackerras was born in Balclutha, New Zealand to James Murray Mackerras, and Elizabeth Mary , both farmers. His parents separated and Ian and brother Alan lived with their mother in Sydney...
- 1962 Frank MacFarlane BurnetFrank Macfarlane BurnetSir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, , usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist best known for his contributions to immunology....
- 1964 Frank John Fenner
- 1965 Michael James Denham White
- 1967 Dorothy HillDorothy HillDorothy Hill, AC, CBE, FAA, FRS . She was an Australian geologist, the first female professor at an Australian university, and the first female president of the Australian Academy of Science.-Education:...
- 1968 Norman H Taylor
- 1969 John Cawte BeagleholeJohn Cawte BeagleholeJohn Cawte Beaglehole, OM, CMG was a New Zealand historian whose greatest scholastic achievement was the editing of James Cook’s three journals of exploration, together with the writing of an acclaimed biography of Cook, published posthumously...
- 1970 Rutherford Ness Robertson
- 1971 William Edward Hanley StannerBill StannerW.E.H. Stanner was an Australian anthropologist who worked extensively with Indigenous Australians. Stanner had a varied career that also included journalism in the 1930s, military service in World War II, and political advice on colonial policy in Africa and the South Pacific in the post-war...
- 1972 Douglas Frew Waterhouse
- 1973 Reginald John Moir
- 1975 Alfred Edward Ringwood
- 1976 Lindsay Dixon Pryor
- 1977 Archibald Keverall McIntyre
- 1979 Walter Victor MacFarlane
- 1980 J Horace Waring
- 1981 John Fredrick Adrian Sprent
- 1982 Isobel BennettIsobel BennettIsobel Eliza Toom Bennett AO was one of Australia's best-known marine biologists. She assisted William John Dakin with research for his final book, Australian Seashores, regarded by many as "the definitive guide on the intertidal zone, and a recommended source of information to divers"...
- 1983 Leonard J Webb
- 1984 Lawrence Alexander Sidney JohnsonLawrence Alexander Sidney JohnsonLawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson, known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian taxonomic botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, for the whole of his professional career, as a botanist , Director and Honorary Research Associate .Alone or in collaboration with colleagues, he...
- 1985 Roy Woodall
- 1987 Hugh Bryan Spencer Womersley
- 1988 James Patrick Quirk
- 1990 Albert Russell Main
- 1991 Graham Frank Mitchell
- 1992 Adrienne Elizabeth Clarke
- 1993 Charles Rowland Twidale
- 1994 Michael ArcherMike Archer (paleontologist)Mike Archer is an Australian paleontologist specialising in Australia vertebrates. He is a Professor at the School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales...
- 1995 Winifred CurtisWinifred CurtisWinifred Mary Curtis was an Australian botanist, author and a pioneer researcher in plant embryology and cytology. She was born on 15 June 1905 in London, the only child of Herbert John Curtis and Elizabeth Winifred Curtis . She died on 14 October 2005 in Hobart.Curtis lived in India for several...
- 1996 Sophie Charlotte Ducker
- 1997 Marilyn Renfree
- 2001 Mary WhiteMary WhiteMary White may refer to:*Mary White , Broadstairs lifeboat named after a ship it rescued in 1851*Mary White College, at the University of New England, Australia*Mary White , a 1977 Emmy winning TV movie- People :...
- 2005 Richard ShineRichard Shine- Richard Shine :Professor Richard Shine AM FAA is an Australian evolutionary biologist and ecologist; he has conducted extensive research on reptiles and amphibians, and proposed a novel mechanism for evolutionary change. He is currently a Professor of Biology at the University of Sydney.Rick...
ANZAAS – Australian Synchrotron Inaugural Winter School
The ANZAAS – Australian Synchrotron Inaugural Winter School was launched in July 2009.The four-day program aims to give young researchers – Honours, Masters and early PhD students – an understanding of synchrotron techniques and operation for research purposes. Participants attend lectures, tour the facility and perform beamline experiments that complement their lectures.