Australia: Culture#

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Nobel Prize Winners (11)#

Here persons are counted for the country they born in or if their affiliation is with this country.
NameCategoryYearMotivation
Elizabeth H. BlackburnMedicine2009"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"
William Lawrence BraggPhysics1915"for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"
Sir Frank Macfarlane BurnetMedicine1960"for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance"
John Warcup CornforthChemistry1975"for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions"
Peter C. DohertyMedicine1996"for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence"
Sir John Carew EcclesMedicine1963"for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane"
Sir Howard Walter FloreyMedicine1945"for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"
Barry J. MarshallMedicine2005"for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease"
Aleksandr Mikhailovich ProkhorovPhysics1964"for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle"
Brian P. SchmidtPhysics2011"for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"
J. Robin WarrenMedicine2005"for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease"