Australian Academy of Science

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The Australian Academy of Sciences, ( en.: Australian Academy of Science ( AAS) ) is a non-governmental Academy of Sciences in Australia.

History

The AAS was founded in 1954 by members of the Royal Society. Its first president was Sir Mark Oliphant. The Academy was organized along the lines of the British Royal Society. Seat of the Academy is "Shine Dome" in Canberra.

In Australia, also have the Australian Academy of the Humanities, established the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering as a science academy. The four academies are cooperating since 1995 in the " National Academies Forum ".

Organization

The Academy consists of one elected by the members of the "Council ", which leads into office and is supervised by an " Executive Committee" under the academy president Suzanne Cory.

The Academy has about 400 regular members. 16 new members are admitted by election each year. Corresponding members are taken on a small scale. See also: Category: Members of the Australian Academy of Science

Founding members in 1954

  • Keith Edward Bullen, mathematician and geophysicist
  • Frank Macfarlane Burnet, a virologist and immunologist, Nobel laureate
  • David Guthrie Catcheside, geneticists
  • Thomas MacFarland Cherry, mathematicians
  • Ian Clunies Ross, parasitologist
  • Edmund Alfred Cornish, statisticians
  • John Carew Eccles, neurologist, Nobel Laureate
  • Edwin Sherbon Hills, geologist
  • Leonard George Holden Huxley, physicist
  • Raymond James Wood Le Fèvre, chemists
  • Max Rudolf Lviv, biochemists
  • Hedley Ralph Marston, biochemists
  • Leslie Harold Martin, physicists
  • David Forbes Martyn, physicists
  • Douglas Mawson, geologist
  • Alexander John Nicholson, entomologist
  • Mark Oliphant, physicist
  • Joseph Pawsey charging, radiation physicist and astronomer
  • James Arthur Prescott, agricultural scientists
  • Albert Cherbury David Rivett, chemists
  • Thomas Gerald Room, mathematicians
  • Sydney Sunderland, neurologist
  • Oscar Werner Tiegs, zoologist
  • Richard van der Riet Woolley, Astronomer

Academy President

  • Mark Oliphant (1954-1957)
  • John Carew Eccles (1957-1961)
  • Thomas MacFarland Cherry (1961-1964)
  • Frank Macfarlane Burnet ( 1965-69 )
  • David Forbes Martyn (1969-1970)
  • Dorothy Hill ( 1970)
  • Rutherford Robertson (1970-1974)
  • Geoffrey Badger (1974-1978)
  • Lloyd Evans (1978-1982)
  • Arthur Birch (1982-1986)
  • David Curtis (1986-1990)
  • David P. Craig (1990-1994)
  • Gustav Nossal (1994-1998)
  • Brian Anderson (1998-2002)
  • Jim Peacock (2002-2006)
  • Kurt Lambeck (2006-2010)
  • Suzanne Cory (since 2010)
Arthur Birch (organic chemist)
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