The Australia Prize was

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's pre-eminent prize for scientific research from 1990 until 2000, when it was replaced by the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science. The award was international, 10 of the 28 recipients were not Australians.

Recipients

{{more, :Australia Prize recipients * 1999 - Energy science and technology theme - Martin A. Green and Stuart R. Wenham * 1998 - Molecular science theme -

Elizabeth Blackburn Elizabeth Helen Blackburn (born 26 November 1948) is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. In 1984, Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the ...

Suzanne Cory Suzanne Cory (born 11 March 1942) is an Australian molecular biologist. She has worked on the genetics of the immune system and cancer and has lobbied her country to invest in science. She is married to fellow scientist Jerry Adams, also a WE ...

Alec Jeffreys Sir Alec John Jeffreys, (born 9 January 1950) is a British geneticist known for developing techniques for genetic fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used worldwide in forensic science to assist police detective work and to resolve ...

and

Grant Sutherland Grant Robert Sutherland (born 2 June 1945) is a retired Australian human geneticist and cytogeneticist. He was the Director, Department of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics, Adelaide Women's and Children's Hospital for 27 years (1975-2002), t ...

* 1997 - Telecommunications theme- Allan Snyder, Rodney Tucker and Gottfried Ungerboeck * 1996 - Pharmaceutical design theme -

Paul Janssen Paul Adriaan Jan, Baron Janssen (12 September 1926 – 11 November 2003) was a Belgian physician. He was the founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica, a pharmaceutical company with over 20,000 employeesPaul Lewi, Obituary of Dr Paul Janssen (1926–20 ...

, Graeme Laver,

Peter Colman Peter Malcolm Colman (born 1944) is the head of the structural biology division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia. Education Colman was educated at the University of Adelaide, where he received a B ...

and Mark von Itzstein * 1995 - Remote sensing theme - Kenneth G. McCracken, Andrew Green, Jonathon Huntington, Richard Moore * 1994 - Sustainable land management theme -

Gene Likens Gene Elden Likens (born January 6, 1935) is an American limnologist and ecologist. He co-founded the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in 1963, and founded the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbro ...

* 1993 - Sensory perception theme - Horace Barlow, Peter Bishop and

Vernon Mountcastle Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle (July 15, 1918 – January 11, 2015) was an American neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. He discovered and characterized the columnar organization of the cerebral co ...

* 1992 - Mining or processing of mineral resources theme - John Watt, Brian Sowerby, Nicholas Cutmore and Jim Howarth * 1991 - ''No awards presented'' * 1990 - Agriculture or the environment theme - Allen Kerr,

Eugene Nester Eugene Nester is an American plant microbiologist who has made significant contributions to the field of microbe-host interactions in plants and especially on ''Agrobacterium'' species. He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences sin ...

and

Jeff Schell Jozef Stefaan "Jeff", Baron Schell (20 July 1935 – 17 April 2003) was a Belgian molecular biologist. Schell studied zoology and microbiology at the University of Ghent, Belgium. From 1967 to 1995, he worked as a professor at the university. F ...

References

Australia Prize 1990-1999, Prime Minister's Prizes for Science
Australian science and technology awards History of science and technology in Australia