CORRESPONDING MEMBERS

Overview

A Corresponding Member is a person who is eminent in respect of scientific discoveries and attainments but is not normally resident in Australia. No more than two Corresponding Members can be elected in any one year.

ANDERSSON, Bertil, FAA
Rector, Department of Cell Biology, University of Linköping, Sweden.
Year of election: 1999.

ATIYAH, Sir Michael, OM, FAA, FRS
Honorary Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Year of election: 1992.

ATTENBOROUGH, Sir David, OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FAA, FRS
Richmond, Surrey, UK.
Year of election: 2008.

BERNARD, Jean, FAA
Formerly President, French Academy of Sciences.
Year of election: 1986.

BJORKMAN, Olle E, FAA
Professor, Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA.
Year of election: 1986.

BLACKBURN, Elizabeth, FAA
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, USA
Year of election: 2007.

BOYER, John S, FAA
E I du Pont Professor of Marine Plant Biochemistry/Biophysics, College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware, USA.
Year of election: 2004.

BROOKS, Rodney A, FAA
Panasonic Professor of Robotics and Director, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
Year of election: 2006.

BUCKINGHAM, A David, CBE, FAA, FRS
Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK.
Year of election: 2008

CONNELL, Joseph Hurd, FAA
Professor, Biological Sciences, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
Year of election: 2002.

CORNFORTH, Sir John (Warcup), AC, CBE, FAA, FRS, Nobel Laureate
Professor, School of Chemistry and Molecular Science, University of Sussex, UK.
Year of election: 1977.

FELDMANN, Marc, FAA, FRS, FMedSci, FRCP, FRCPath
Head, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Division, Imperial College, London, UK
Year of election: 2005

GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton, FAA, Nobel Laureate
CNRS – Institut de Neurobiologie Alfred Fessard, France.
Year of election: 1993

HARRIS, Sir Henry, FAA, FRS
Regius Professor of Medicine Emeritus, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK.
Year of election: 1983.

JONES, Vaughan Frederick Randal, FAA, FRS
Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Year of election: 1992.

KREBS, Charles J, FAA
Professor Emeritus, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra, Australia.
Year of election: 2002.

LU, Yongxiang, Academician CAS, CAE, TWAS, FAA, FIMechE
President, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Year of election: 2005.

MAY, Lord Robert, OM, AC, FAA, FRS
President, The Royal Society, UK. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK. Formerly Chief Scientist to the UK Government and Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford and Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK.
Year of election: 1991.

ÖQUIST, Gunnar, FAA
Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Professor of Plant Physiology, Umeä University, Sweden
Year of election: 2004.

OXBURGH, Lord Ronald, KBE, FAA, FRS
House of Lords, Westminster, UK.
Year of election: 1999.

POWELL, Michael James David, FAA, FRS, NAS
Professor, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
Year of election: 2007.

RAVEN, Peter H, FAA
Director, Missouri Botanical Garden, USA.
Year of election: 1990.

SALPETER, Edwin Ernest, FAA
Emeritus Professor, J G White Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.
Year of election: 1988.

SANGER, Frederick, OM, CH, CBE, FAA, FRS, Nobel Laureate
Formerly MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.
Year of election: 1982.

SLATER, Edward Charles, FAA, FRS
Emeritus Professor of Physiological Chemistry, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Year of election: 1985.

TAO, Terence, FAA, FRS
Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Year of election: 2006.

ZINKERNAGEL, Rolf Martin, FAA, Nobel Laureate
Director, Institute of Experimental Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Year of election: 1996.