Australia
28
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1945~2024
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Physiology, Medicine
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Akshay Venkatesh,
Australia
For his synthesis ofanalytic number theory, homogeneous dynamics,topology, andrepresentation theory, which has resolved long-standing problems in areas such as the equidistribution of arithmetic objects.
Brian Schmidt
Australia,
United States of America
for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae (Astrophys. J.: 517 (1999) 565-586; Astrophys. J.: 507 (1998) 46-63; Astron. J.: 116 (1998) 1009-1038)
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
United States of America,
Australia
for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase
Terence Tao,
Australia
for his contributions topartial differential equations,combinatorics,harmonic analysisand additive number theory
Barry Marshall
Australia
for the discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease
Robin Warren
Australia
for the discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease
J. M. Coetzee
Australia,
South Africa
for portraying, in innumerable guises, the surprising involvement of the outsider
Peter C. Doherty
Australia
for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell-mediated immune defence
John Warcup Cornforth
Australia,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions
Patrick White
Australia
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature
John Carew Eccles
Australia
for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Australia
for the discovery of acquired immunological tolerance
Howard Walter Florey
Australia
for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases