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Awards
for Two Professors From the School of Physics
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| Presentation
of Federation Fellowship to Professor Robert Clark by
Prime Minister John Howard. |
In September
2001, Professor Robert Clark, the Director for the Centre for
Quantum Computer Technology, was awarded an Australian Government
Federation Fellowship. The Federation Fellowships, inaugurated
this year, are the most prestigious and richest publicly funded
research fellowships ever offered in Australia. They are awarded
on the advice of the Australian Research Council. Only fifteen
of these were awarded.
Professor
Clark’s award recognises his groundbreaking work in the
development of a silicon quantum computer. The attempt to
be the first in the world to demonstrate the feasibility of
a scalable, solid state quantum computer through a working
few-qubit prototype is at the forefront of world science today
and through Professor Clark’s work, Australia is a significant
player.
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| Professor
Warrick Couch receiving his citation award from Mr Adam
Clein, Vice-President of ISI, Asia-Pacific region |
Professor
Warrick Couch, from the Department of Astrophysics, was recognised
by the USA-based Institute for Scientific Information in April
2001. He was one of 33 Australian scientists who received
awards at the inaugural “Honouring Excellence in Australian
Research” for producing research papers which are the
most frequently cited by the international scientific community.
Professor
Couch’s string of heavily-cited papers goes back to the
early 1990’s, when he and co-authors were the first to
analyse data from the Hubble Space Telescope and show that
galaxies in giant clusters have undergone dramatic evolution
over the past five to eight billion years. This work was influential
as it was the first done with the Hubble in this field.
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