Australian Academy of Science#The Shine Dome

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| caption = Academy Coat of Arms

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| map_caption = location of the Australian Academy of Science in Canberra

| formation = 1954

| headquarters = Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

| leader_title = President

| leader_name = Chennupati Jagadish

| membership = ≈500 Fellows

| website = [http://www.science.org.au/ www.science.org.au]

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File:Australian Academy of Science - Ian Potter House.jpg

The Australian Academy of Science was founded in 1954 by a group of distinguished Australians, including Australian Fellows of the Royal Society of London.{{cite web|title=The Charter |publisher=Australian Academy of Science |access-date=22 September 2008 |url=http://www.science.org.au/charter.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719092041/http://www.science.org.au/charter.htm |archive-date=19 July 2008 |url-status=live }} The first president was Sir Mark Oliphant. The academy is modelled after the Royal Society and operates under a Royal charter; as such, it is an independent body, but it has government endorsement. The Academy Secretariat is in Canberra, at the Shine Dome.

The objectives of the academy are to promote science and science education through a wide range of activities. It has defined four major program areas:

:* Recognition of outstanding contributions to science

:* Education and public awareness

:* Science policy

:* International relations

The academy also runs the 22 National Committees for Science which provide a forum to discuss issues relevant to all the scientific disciplines in Australia.

Origins

The Australian National Research Council (ANRC) was established in 1919 for the purpose of representing Australia on the International Research Council. The Council ceased to exist in 1954, replaced by the Australian Academy of Science.[http://www.eoas.info/biogs/A000211b.htm Australian National Research Council (1919–1954)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721201033/http://www.eoas.info/biogs/A000211b.htm# |date=21 July 2011 }}, Encyclopedia of Australian Science, www.eoas.info

The Shine Dome

File:Shine dome.jpg

The Shine Dome (previously known as Becker House) is a well-known Canberra landmark, notable for its unusual structure, and colloquially referred to as "The Martian Embassy", an allusion to its shape and the fact that as the capital of Australia, Canberra is the home of foreign embassies.{{cite news |title=Engineering feat stands test of time. |url=http://business.highbeam.com/437587/article-1G1-208872968/engineering-feat-stands-test-time |access-date=20 March 2013 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=2 October 2009 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411024154/http://business.highbeam.com/437587/article-1G1-208872968/engineering-feat-stands-test-time |archive-date=11 April 2013 |url-status=dead }} It was designed by architect Sir Roy Grounds, of Grounds, Romberg and Boyd. When completed in 1959 its 45.75-metre-diameter dome was the largest in Australia.

On 1 December 1956, the academy's building design committee met in Adelaide to look over plans submitted by six architects. The plan accepted involved a 710-tonne reinforced concrete dome, which had to be supported by 16 thin supports. The concrete is approximately 60 cm thick at the base supports, and 10 cm at the top. The dome supports itself, with no internal wall holding it up. It cost £200,000 to build. The foundation stone, laid on 2 May 1958 by Prime Minister of Australia, Robert Menzies, was originally part of the pier of the Great Melbourne Telescope constructed in 1869 under the supervision of the Royal Society and transferred to Mount Stromlo Observatory in the 1940s.

The building was named Becker House, for benefactor and Fellow of the Academy Sir Jack Ellerton Becker, in 1962. In 2000, it was renamed in honour of Fellow John Shine, who donated one million dollars to renovate the dome.

The interior contains three floors: on the ground level, the main auditorium, the Ian Wark Theatre, seats 156 people, the Jaeger Room for functions and meetings, the Becker Council Meeting Room and offices; the upper level includes a gallery to the theatre and the Adolf Basser Library; and the basement houses storage for historical records of science in Australia.

In 2016, the dome appeared in the television documentary series about Australian modernist architecture Streets of Your Town presented by Tim Ross.

On 20 January 2020 the Dome was seriously damaged by a hailstorm with smashed skylights and denting of the copper roof surface.{{cite news |last1=Burnside |first1=Niki |title=Canberra hailstorm damages valuable research as record number of emergency calls lodged |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-21/years-of-scientific-research-lost-in-canberra-hailstorm/11884062 |access-date=8 February 2020 |work=ABC News|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=21 January 2020 |language=en-AU}}

Education

Science education is a main commitment of Australian Academy of Science. Current activities include following projects:{{Cite web |url=http://www.science.org.au/learning# |title=Education | Australian Academy of Science |access-date=10 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731211030/https://www.science.org.au/learning# |archive-date=31 July 2016 |url-status=live }}

Primary Connections
Science by Doing
Nova: science for curious minds
reSolve: Mathematics by Inquiry
Science booklets
Brain Box

Fellows

The Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science is made up of around 500 leading Australian scientists. Scientists judged by their peers to have made an exceptional contribution to knowledge in their field may be elected to Fellowship of the academy. Twenty new Fellows may be elected every year.{{cite web |url=http://www.science.org.au/fellows/policies-and-procedures.html |title=Election policies and procedures |publisher=Australian Academy of Science |access-date=23 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120506043841/http://science.org.au/fellows/policies-and-procedures.html# |archive-date=6 May 2012 |url-status=live }}

No more than two Fellows may be elected every three years on the basis of distinguished contributions to science by means other than personal research. A small number of distinguished foreign scientists with substantial connections to Australian science are elected as Corresponding Members.

Fellows are denoted by the letters FAA (Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science) after their name.

=Foundation Fellows=

When the academy was founded in 1954 there were 24 members, known as the Foundation Fellows:

class="wikitable" ! Name !! Field
Keith Edward Bullen	Mathematics and geophysics
Frank Macfarlane Burnet	Virology and immunology (Nobel laureate)
David Guthrie Catcheside	Genetics
Thomas MacFarland Cherry	Mathematics
Ian Clunies Ross	Parasitology and science administration
Edmund Alfred Cornish	Statistics
John Eccles	Neuroscience (Nobel laureate)
Edwin Sherbon Hills	Geology
Leonard Huxley	Physics
Raymond James Wood Le Fèvre	Chemistry
Max Rudolf Lemberg	Biochemistry
Hedley Ralph Marston	Biochemistry
Leslie Martin	Physics
David Forbes Martyn	Physics
Douglas Mawson	Geology
Alexander John Nicholson	Entomology
Mark Oliphant	Physics
Joseph Lade Pawsey	Radiophysics and astronomy
James Arthur Prescott	Agricultural science
David Rivett	Chemistry
Thomas Gerald Room	Mathematics
Sydney Sunderland	Neuroscience
Oscar Werner Tiegs	Zoology
Richard van der Riet Woolley	Astronomy

Presidents

Source:{{cite web |title= The president |publisher= Australian Academy of Science |url= https://www.science.org.au/about-us/academy/president |access-date= 30 December 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170101030232/https://www.science.org.au/about-us/academy/president# |archive-date= 1 January 2017 |url-status= live }}

Sir Mark Oliphant (1954–1957)
Sir John Eccles (1957–1961)
Sir Thomas Cherry (1961–1964)
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1965–69)
Dr David Martyn (1969–1970)
Professor Dorothy Hill (1970)
Sir Rutherford Robertson (1970–1974)
Sir Geoffrey Badger (1974–1978)
Dr Lloyd Evans (1978–1982)
Professor Arthur Birch (1982–1986)
Professor David Curtis (1986–1990)
Professor David Craig (1990–1994)
Sir Gustav Nossal (1994–1998)
Professor Brian Anderson (1998–2002)
Dr Jim Peacock (2002–2006)
Professor Kurt Lambeck (2006–2010)
Professor Suzanne Cory (2010–2014)
Professor Andrew Holmes (2014–2018)
Professor John Shine (2018–2022)
Professor Chennupati Jagadish (2022–)

Awards

Early career awards:[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/early-career-awards Early-career awards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227132846/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/early-career-awards# |date=27 December 2016 }}, www.science.org.au

Anton Hales Medal to recognise distinguished research in the Earth sciences;[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/early-career-awards/anton-hales-medal Anton Hales Medal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421071704/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/early-career-awards/anton-hales-medal# |date=21 April 2017 }}, www.science.org.au
Dorothy Hill Medal to recognise research in the Earth sciences by female researchers;[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/early-career-awards/dorothy-hill-award Dorothy Hill Award] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917223946/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/early-career-awards/dorothy-hill-award# |date=17 September 2016 }}, www.science.org.au
Fenner Medal, to recognise distinguished research in biology;[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/early-career-awards/fenner-medal Fenner Medal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227132858/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/early-career-awards/fenner-medal# |date=27 December 2016 }}, www.science.org.au
Gottschalk Medal, to recognise outstanding research in the medical sciences;[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/early-career-awards/gottschalk-medal Gottschalk Medal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227133130/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/early-career-awards/gottschalk-medal# |date=27 December 2016 }}, www.science.org.au
John Booker Medal, to recognise outstanding research in the sciences that underpin engineering;[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/early-career-awards/john-booker-medal John Booker Medal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227132733/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/early-career-awards/john-booker-medal# |date=27 December 2016 }}, www.science.org.au
Le Fèvre Medal, to recognise outstanding basic research in chemistry;[https://www.science.org.au/supporting-science/awards-and-opportunities/le-fevre-medal Le Fèvre Medal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420072131/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/early-career-awards/le-fevre-memorial-prize# |date=20 April 2017 }}, www.science.org.au
Pawsey Medal, to recognise outstanding research in physics;[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/early-career-awards/pawsey-medal Pawsey Medal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161106191211/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/early-career-awards/pawsey-medal# |date=6 November 2016 }}, www.science.org.au
Ruth Stephens Gani Medal,[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/early-career-awards/ruth-stephens-gani-medal-0 Ruth Stephens Gani biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230003605/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/early-career-awards/ruth-stephens-gani-medal-0# |date=30 December 2016 }}, www.science.org.au to recognise distinguished research in human genetics, including clinical, molecular, population and epidemiological genetics and cytogenetics.[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/early-career-awards/ruth-stephens-gani-medal Ruth Stephens Gani Medal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227133231/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/early-career-awards/ruth-stephens-gani-medal# |date=27 December 2016 }}, www.science.org.au
Moran Medal to recognise outstanding research in one or more of the fields of applied probability, biometrics, mathematical genetics, psychometrics and statistics (awarded every two years).[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/early-career-awards/moran-medal Moran Medal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227132821/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/early-career-awards/moran-medal# |date=27 December 2016 }}, www.science.org.au

Mid career awards:[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/mid-career-awards Mid-career awards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227132910/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/mid-career-awards# |date=27 December 2016 }}, www.science.org.au

Gustav Nossal Medal, to health researchers;[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/mid-career-awards/gustav-nossal-medal Gustav Nossal Medal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227132745/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/mid-career-awards/gustav-nossal-medal# |date=27 December 2016 }}, www.science.org.au
Jacques Miller Medal, to experimental biomedicine researchers;[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/mid-career-awards/jacques-miller-medal Jacques Miller Medal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227133207/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/mid-career-awards/jacques-miller-medal# |date=27 December 2016 }}, www.science.org.au
Nancy Millis Medal for Women in Science.[https://www.science.org.au/nancy-millis-medal-women-science Nancy Millis Medal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150628122559/https://www.science.org.au/nancy-millis-medal-women-science# |date=28 June 2015 }}, www.science.org.au

Career awards recognising lifelong achievement:[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/career-awards Career awards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227133038/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/career-awards# |date=27 December 2016 }}, www.science.org.au

David Craig Medal and Lecture, for researchers in chemistry;[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/career-awards/david-craig-medal-and-lecture David Craig Medal and Lecture] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227132656/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/career-awards/david-craig-medal-and-lecture# |date=27 December 2016 }}, www.science.org.au
Haddon King Medal, for researchers in earth science;[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/career-awards/haddon-forrester-king-medal Haddon Forrester King Medal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227130718/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/career-awards/haddon-forrester-king-medal#|date=27 December 2016}}, www.science.org.au
Hannan Medal, for researchers in mathematics;[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/career-awards/hannan-medal Hannan Medal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227133104/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/career-awards/hannan-medal#|date=27 December 2016}}, www.science.org.au
Ian Wark Medal and Lecture;[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/career-awards/ian-wark-medal-and-lecture Ian Wark Medal and Lecture] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227133025/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/career-awards/ian-wark-medal-and-lecture#|date=27 December 2016}}, www.science.org.au
Jaeger Medal, for researchers in earth science;[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/career-awards/jaeger-medal Jaeger Medal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227133219/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/career-awards/jaeger-medal# |date=27 December 2016 }}, www.science.org.au
Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal, for researchers in mathematics or physics;[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/career-awards/thomas-ranken-lyle-medal Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161004125625/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/career-awards/thomas-ranken-lyle-medal# |date=4 October 2016 }}, www.science.org.au
Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture, for research in the biological sciences;[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/career-awards/macfarlane-burnet-medal-and Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227132757/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/career-awards/macfarlane-burnet-medal-and# |date=27 December 2016 }}, www.science.org.au
Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture, for researchers in physical science;[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/career-awards/matthew-flinders Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420073804/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/career-awards/matthew-flinders#|date=20 April 2017}}, www.science.org.au
Mawson Lecture and Medal, for researchers in earth science;[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/career-awards/mawson-medal-and-lecture Mawson Medal and Lecture] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227133013/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/career-awards/mawson-medal-and-lecture#|date=27 December 2016}}, www.science.org.au
Ruby Payne-Scott Medal and Lecture, for women in science;{{Cite web |title=Academy launches two new career awards for 2021 {{!}} Australian Academy of Science |url=https://www.science.org.au/news-and-events/news-and-media-releases/academy-launches-two-new-career-awards-2021 |access-date=2022-03-31 |website=science.org.au |language=en}}
Suzanne Cory Medal, for research in the biological sciences.

Other awards include:

Academy Medal for outstanding contributions to science by means other than through scientific research;[https://www.science.org.au/academy-medal Academy Medal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170228162236/https://www.science.org.au/academy-medal# |date=28 February 2017 }}, www.science.org.au
Lloyd Rees Lecture, for lectures in chemical physics;[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/conference-lecture-funding/lloyd-rees-lecture Lloyd Rees Lectures] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227133155/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/conference-lecture-funding/lloyd-rees-lecture# |date=27 December 2016 }}, www.science.org.au
Selby Fellowship awarded to distinguished overseas scientists to visit Australia for public lecture/seminar tours.[https://www.science.org.au/opportunities/travel/travelling-fellowships/selby-fellowship Selby Fellowship] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170101162903/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities/travel/travelling-fellowships/selby-fellowship# |date=1 January 2017 }}, www.science.org.au

Other learned Academies

There are three other learned Academies in Australia, those of Humanities (Australian Academy of the Humanities), Social Science (Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia) and Technological Sciences and Engineering (Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering). The four Academies cooperate through the Australian Council of Learned Academies, formed in 2010.

Arms

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|name = the Australian Academy of Science

|year_adopted = Granted by the Kings of Arms, 1 March 1965 (Earl Marshal's warrant, 30 December 1964).

|crest = On a Wreath of the Colours a demi Swan rousant Sable Ducally gorged Or, the wings charged with a conventional representation of the nucleus of an Atom with three Particles in orbit Or.

|torse = Argent and Azure.

|helm = A closed Helmet.

|escutcheon = Azure, a representation of the building of the Australian Academy of Science at Canberra ensigned of a Mullet of seven points Argent on a Canton Argent a representation of the Royal Crown proper.

|supporters = On the dexter side a Kangaroo and on the sinister side a Talbot both proper and Ducally gorged Or.

|compartment = A field of Grass Vert.

|other_elements = Mantling Azure doubled Argent.

|badge =

|symbolism = Escutcheon: The seven-pointed silver star on a blue field represents the Commonwealth of Australia as it appears on the National Flag. The representation of the Academy building, the Shine Dome that was completed in 1959, follows the practice of armigers including a representation of their own castle. The royal crown in the canton was included by special permission of Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of the royal charter of the Academy, while the three animals in the arms (kangaroo, talbot, and swan) are gorged (collared) by a coronet to signify the Royal oversight of the Academy through the charter. Crest: Biological science is represented by the Black swan (which also appears as a supporter on the Coat of Arms of the City of Canberra), and physical science by the atom symbol on its wing. Supporters: The Red Kangaroo is taken from the Australian arms, while the White hound supporter is identical to the supporters of the arms of the Royal Society of London and was included by permission of the Royal Society to signify the close relations of the two bodies and the role of Royal Society Fellows in the Australian academy's establishment.{{cite web |title=The Academy's coat of arms |url=http://science.org.au/academy/#coatofarms |work=About the Academy |publisher=Australian Academy of Science |access-date=12 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130505182142/http://www.science.org.au/academy/#coatofarms#coatofarms |archive-date=5 May 2013 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite book|last=Low|first=Charles|title=A Roll of Australian Arms|year=1971|publisher=Rigby Limited|location=Adelaide|page=5|isbn=0-85179-149-2|oclc=246821}}

}}

References

External links

[http://www.science.org.au/ Australian Academy of Science]
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[https://www.taxonomyaustralia.org.au Taxonomy Australia], a branch of the Australian Academy of Science

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