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

biophysicist Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations ...

, Distinguished Professor at

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

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

University of Queensland The University of Queensland is a Public university, public research university located primarily in Brisbane, the capital city of the Australian state of Queensland. Founded in 1909 by the Queensland parliament, UQ is one of the six sandstone ...

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 Rank Prize in Nutrition, 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 Prime Minister's Prize for Science in 2015 for his modelling of photosynthesis and the

Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture The Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture is a biennial award given by the Australian Academy of Science to recognise outstanding scientific research in the biological sciences. It was established in 1971 and honours the memory of the Nobel laureat ...

by the

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in 2016. In 2017 he is the recipient of the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences (Biology). On 25 January 2018, Farquhar was named Senior Australian of the Year. By the number of citations, he is the most cited author of some plant science journals such as Planta, Plant, Cell and Environment, Functional Plant Biology.

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