Research achievements

ANU counts more Nobel Laureates among staff and alumni than any other Australian university.

In this section, learn about our Nobel Laureates and those distinguished academics whose research has brought distinction to our University.

Nobel laureates

ANU is privileged to have hosted a number of Nobel Laureates whose ground-breaking research has increased our understanding of our world, and improved it for the better. Learn more about those people whose work continues to inspire us.

Professor Brian Schmidt
2011

Professor Brian P. Schmidt AC FAA FRS »

The Vice-Chancellor is the President and Chief Executive Officer of ANU. The Vice-Chancellor guides strategy and day-to-day leadership for the University and is also a member of the Council. Professor Brian P. Schmidt was appointed Vice-Chancellor...
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Professor Peter Doherty
1996

Professor Peter Doherty AC FAAS »

The Nobel Prize for Medicine Peter Doherty shares the 1996 Nobel Prize in Medicine with his ANU colleague Rolf Zinkernagel for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence. They carried out revolutionary work in...
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Professor Rolf Zinkernagel
1996

Professor Rolf Martin Zinkernagel AC HonDSc FAAS »

The Nobel Prize for Medicine of Physiology Rolf Zinkernagel shares the 1996 Nobel Prize in Medicine with his ANU colleague Peter Doherty for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence. They carried out...
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Professor John Harsanyi
1994

Professor John Harsanyi  »

The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences John Harsanyi shares the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with fellow game theorists John F. Nash Jr and Reinhard Selten, for pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games. This...
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Professor John Eccles
1963

Sir John Eccles AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAAS »

The Nobel Prize in Medicine Sir John Eccles shares the 1963 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Alan L. Hodgkin and Andrew F. Huxley for discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central...
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Lord Howard Florey
1945

Lord Howard Florey OM FRS FRCP »

The Nobel Prize in Medicine Sir Howard Florey shares the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine with colleague Ernst B. Chain and Alexander Fleming for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases. Florey began...
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Emeritus Professors

  • Michael Douglas Crisp (1991–2013)
  • Harvey Raymond Butcher (2007–2013)
  • Terence Harwood Hull (1975–2012)
  • William Lee Steffen (1977–2012)
  • Brenton Raymond Lewis (1979–2012)
  • Helen Margaret Christensen (1988–2012)
  • James Stanislaus Williams (1988–2012)
  • Aidan Byrne (1989–2012)
  • Anthony McMichael AO (2001–2012)
  • Richard Peirce Brent (1972–2011)
  • Neil Bressay Manson (1973–2011)
  • Dorothy Howard Broom (1980–2011)
  • Robert Leith Dewar (1982–2011)
  • Atholl John Anderson (1993–2011)
  • Barry William Caldwell Higman (1996–2011)
  • Niels Becker (1999–2011)
  • Ian William Chubb (2001–2011)
  • Jennifer Ann Marshall Graves (2001–2011)
  • Franklin Humphrey Briggs (2002–2011)
  • Trevor David Lamb (2003–2011)
  • George Dennis Dracoulis (1973–2010)
  • Hans-Albert Bachor (1982–2010)
  • John Denison McMillan (1983–2010)
  • Nicholas Charles Theodore Tapp (2000–2010)
  • Desmond Francis Nicholls (1971–2009)
  • Ann Louise Kumar (1971–2009)
  • Geoffrey Hope (1974–2009)
  • Desley Anne Deacon (1975–2009)
  • Stephen John Redman (1981–2009)
  • John Alan Richards (1998–2009)
  • Judith Ann Whitworth (1999–2009)
  • Robin Jeffrey (1973–2008)
  • John Lewis Warhurst (1978–2008)
  • Stanley Bruce Wild (1979–2008)
  • Andrew Peter Hopkins (1986–2008)
  • John Charles Turner (1990–2008)
  • Ben Kerkvliet (1992–2008)
  • Richard Mulgan (1993–2008)
  • Darrell Tryon (1967–2007)
  • Charles Ian Edward Donaldson (1969–2007)
  • James Joseph Fox (1975–2007)
  • Kurt Lambeck (1977–2007)
  • Virginia Hooker (1983–2007)
  • Malcolm David Ross (1986–2007)
  • Barry Hindess (1987–2007)
  • Iain Duncan McCalman (1988–2007)
  • Erich Weigold (1992–2007)
  • John O'Callaghan (1999–2007)
  • George Desmond Clark-Walker (1968–2006)
  • Robert George Gregory (1969–2006)