Graham Douglas Farquhar, (born 8 December 1947) is an Australian

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, Distinguished Professor at

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, and leader of the Farquhar Lab. In 2018 Farquhar was named

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Life

Farquhar attended Wesley College, finishing in 1964, and went on to earn a BSc from

in 1968, a BSc with Honours in Biophysics from

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in 1969, and a PhD from Australian National University in 1973. Farquhar was appointed Professor of the

’s Research School of Biology and Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis. His work to model plant biophysics has helped to understand how cells, whole plants and whole forests work, and to create new water-efficient wheat varieties. His latest project is attempting to determine which trees will grow faster in a high carbon dioxide atmosphere. In 2014 Farquhar, along with

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agronomist Richard Richards, was awarded the

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, for "pioneering the understanding of isotope discrimination in plants and its application to breed wheat varieties that use water more efficiently", which related to a discovery the pair made in the 1980s. Farquhar was awarded the

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in 2015 for his modelling of photosynthesis and the

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by the

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in 2016. In 2017 he is the recipient of the

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(Biology). On 25 January 2018, Farquhar was named

. By the number of citations, he is the most cited author of some plant science journals such as

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*http://lwa.gov.au/projects/3231 *http://www.nasonline.org/ *https://web.archive.org/web/20111129103334/http://science.org.au/scientists/interviews/p/gp.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Farquhar, Graham 1947 births Living people Australian physicists Academic staff of the Australian National University Australian National University alumni Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Kyoto laureates in Basic Sciences Officers of the Order of Australia Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences

Life

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