Nobel Laureates

ANU is privileged to have hosted a number of Nobel Laureates whose ground-breaking research has increased our understanding of our world, and improved it for the better. Learn more about those people whose work continues to inspire us.

Picture of Professor Brian Schmidt
2011

Professor Brian P. Schmidt AC FAA FRS »

The Vice-Chancellor and President is the leader and chief executive officer of ANU. The Vice-Chancellor provides executive leadership to the University and takes overall responsibility for delivering the ANU Strategy. He chairs key management...
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Professor Peter Doherty
1996

Professor Peter Doherty AC FAAS »

The Nobel Prize for Medicine Peter Doherty shares the 1996 Nobel Prize in Medicine with his ANU colleague Rolf Zinkernagel for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence. They carried out revolutionary work in...
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Professor Rolf Zinkernagel
1996

Professor Rolf Martin Zinkernagel AC HonDSc FAAS »

The Nobel Prize for Medicine of Physiology Rolf Zinkernagel shares the 1996 Nobel Prize in Medicine with his ANU colleague Peter Doherty for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence. They carried out...
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Professor John Harsanyi
1994

Professor John Harsanyi  »

The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences John Harsanyi shares the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with fellow game theorists John F. Nash Jr and Reinhard Selten, for pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games. This...
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Professor John Eccles
1963

Sir John Eccles AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAAS »

The Nobel Prize in Medicine Sir John Eccles shares the 1963 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Alan L. Hodgkin and Andrew F. Huxley for discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central...
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Lord Howard Florey
1945

Lord Howard Florey OM FRS FRCP »

The Nobel Prize in Medicine Sir Howard Florey shares the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine with colleague Ernst B. Chain and Alexander Fleming for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases. Florey began...
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Emeritus Professors

  • Allan Whitenack Snyder (1971–2006)
  • Michael Andrew Dopita (1975–2006)
  • John Barratt Moore (1982–2006)
  • David William Williams (1985–2006)
  • Gavan Patrick McCormack (1990–2006)
  • Larry Sitsky (1992–2006)
  • John Chappell (1967–2005)
  • Christopher Charles Heyde (1968–2005)
  • John Bryan Gibson (1974–2005)
  • Marion Sawer (1978–2005)
  • Harold Arthur Crouch (1985–2005)
  • Charles Michael Barrington Greenhalgh (1987–2005)
  • John Mark Dutton Elvin (1990–2005)
  • Paul Dibb (1967–2004)
  • Thomas John Andrews (1972–2004)
  • Jindy Rosa Pettman (1985–2004)
  • Peter David Drysdale (1966–2003)
  • Richard James Campbell (1967–2003)
  • John Douglas Ritchie (1969–2003)
  • Robert Vincent Blanden (1971–2003)
  • David John Marr (1975–2003)
  • Gavin Willis Jones (1975–2003)
  • Philip Noel Pettit (1983–2003)
  • John Alan Elix (1967–2002)
  • Rodney James Baxter (1970–2002)
  • Hyland (Hank) Neil Nelson (1973–2002)
  • Lewis Norman Mander (1975–2002)
  • Ronald Charles Duncan (1994–2002)
  • David Headley Green (1962–2001)
  • Frank Lancaster Jones (1963–2001)
  • Richard Anthony Eggleton (1966–2001)
  • Patrick Nicol Troy (1966–2001)
  • James Lindsay Reeve Davis (1968–2001)
  • Fyfe Leonard Bygrave (1968–2001)
  • Francis Geofrey Castles (1968–2001)
  • Rhys Jones (1969–2001)
  • Barry William Ninham (1970–2001)
  • Alexander Scott Henderson (1975–2001)
  • Robert Matheson Douglas (1989–2001)
  • Ian McDougall (1961–2000)
  • Peter James Rimmer (1966–2000)
  • Martin Arthur Bennett (1967–2000)
  • Richard Deane Terrell (1970–2000)
  • Derek William Robinson (1982–2000)
  • Graeme Wilber Clarke (1957–1999)
  • Trevor Richard Ophel (1959–1999)
  • Michael Fredrick Newman (1961–1999)
  • Arthur David Hambly (1962–1999)
  • Michael Robert Osborne (1965–1999)
  • Rodney Warren Rickards (1966–1999)