Science
World-renowned Adelaide scientists include:
- Mark Oliphant, physicist and Governor of South Australia.
- Nobel Prize winners
- William Henry Bragg, with his son, for their studies, (using the X-ray spectrometer), of X-ray spectra, X-ray diffraction, and of crystal structure
- William Lawrence Bragg, youngest ever winner of a Nobel Prize and the only father and son to have won the prize
- Robin Warren, (with Barry Marshall), credited with the re-discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori
- Howard Florey, honoured for his role in making penicillin readily available. Florey was elected President of the Royal Society in 1943 and received a peerage in 1965 for his monumental work in saving millions of lives.
- Andy Thomas, astronaut
- Pioneer Antarctic explorers
- Cecil Madigan
- Douglas Mawson
- Hubert Wilkins
- James Unaipon (1834–1908)
- David Unaipon (1872–1967), commemorated on the Fifty Dollar banknote. A scientist, writer, preacher and prolific inventor, became known as the "Australian Leonardo"; one of his best ideas improved the efficiency of the mechanical sheep-shears.
- Dr Christopher Rawson Penfold and his wife Mary Penfold established Penfolds Winery in 1845 which now produces the prestigious Penfolds Grange Hermitage.
- Terence Tao, mathematician; winner of the 2006 Fields Medal widely viewed as the highest honour a mathematician can receive
- Rodney Brooks, roboticist; director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and founding member of the iRobot Corporation.
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Famous quotes containing the word science:
“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
“The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.”
—Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)
“For us necessity is not as of old an image without us, with whom we can do warfare; it is a magic web woven through and through us, like that magnetic system of which modern science speaks, penetrating us with a network subtler than our subtlest nerves, yet bearing in it the central forces of the world.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)