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

  • Anthony John Stanhope Reid (1970–1999)
  • Donald Westlake Greig (1974–1999)
  • Richard Freeman Mark (1974–1999)
  • Kevin John Lafferty (1962–1998)
  • Beryl Marie Rawson (1964–1998)
  • Raymond Harold Spear (1964–1998)
  • Benjamin Klaas Selinger (1965–1998)
  • Ralph Gerard Ward (1971–1998)
  • James Longden Richardson (1975–1998)
  • Allan Douglas Barton (1975–1998)
  • William Richard Hawkey (1979–1998)
  • Merle Calvin Ricklefs (1993–1998)
  • Clyde Arnold McGilchrist (1994–1998)
  • Godfrey James Rutherford Linge (1959–1997)
  • Bruce William Chappell (1960–1997)
  • Francis Barrymore Smith (1966–1997)
  • Brian Edgar Scourse Gunning (1974–1997)
  • Robert Kenneth Meyer (1974–1997)
  • Graeme Max Neutze (1960–1996)
  • William Compston (1961–1996)
  • Christopher Robin Heathcote (1962–1996)
  • Eric Peter Bachelard (1965–1996)
  • William Russell Levick (1967–1996)
  • Dennis Charles Pearce (1968–1996)
  • Diana Rosemary Howlett (1971–1996)
  • Stuart Francis Harris (1975–1996)
  • Alan McLeod Sargeson (1958–1995)
  • William Andrew Coppel (1961–1995)
  • John David Pitchford (1962–1995)
  • John Stewart Turner (1975–1995)
  • Athelston Laurence Johnson Beckwith (1981–1995)
  • John Painter (1985–1995)
  • William Graeme Laver (1958–1994)
  • Kenneth Stanley Inglis (1962–1994)
  • Christopher Bryant (1963–1994)
  • Donald Seaforth Mathewson (1966–1994)
  • David Michael Griffin (1971–1994)
  • Isabel McBryde (1974–1994)
  • Michael Antony Denborough (1974–1994)
  • Sydney Maxwell Hamberger (1977–1994)
  • Alfred Edward Ringwood (1958–1993)
  • Anthony Hearle Johns (1958–1993)
  • Eugene Kamenka (1961–1993)
  • Helen Hughes (1963–1993)
  • John Charles Caldwell (1964–1993)
  • Ronald John Sandeman (1966–1993)
  • Ian Roy Cowan (1968–1993)
  • Stanley Hinds (1970–1993)
  • Roger Wolcott Richardson (1977–1993)
  • John Henry Carver (1953–1992)