Graham Farquhar
{{Short description| Australian biophysicist (born 1947)}}
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| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=AUS|size=100%|sep=,|AO|FAA|FRS}}
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| birth_name = Graham Douglas Farquhar
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|12|08}}
| birth_place = Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
| education = {{unbulleted list|Wesley College | Australian National University (BSc, PhD) | University of Queensland (BSc)}}
| occupation = {{hlist|Biophysicist|Professor|Researcher}}
| title = Senior Australian of the Year (2018)
| known_for = Plant biophysics research
| employer = Australian National University
| awards = {{ubl
|Prime Minister's Prize for Science
|Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture
|Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences
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Graham Douglas Farquhar, {{postnominals|country=AUS|size=100%|sep=,|AO|FAA|FRS}} (born 8 December 1947) is an Australian biophysicist, Distinguished Professor at Australian National University,{{cite web |title=Professor Graham Farquhar |url=http://energy.anu.edu.au/about-us/participants/graham-farquhar |website=Energy Change Institute |accessdate=26 March 2019 |language=en |date=3 January 2013}} and leader of the Farquhar Lab. In 2018 Farquhar was named Senior Australian of the Year.
Life
Farquhar attended Wesley College, finishing in 1964,{{cite web|url=http://www.wesleycollege.net/News/2018/01/Australian-of-the-Year-Professor-Graham-Farquhar-AO.aspx|title=Australian of the Year Professor Graham Farquhar AO - Wesley College|website=www.wesleycollege.net}} and went on to earn a BSc from Australian National University in 1968, a BSc with Honours in Biophysics from University of Queensland in 1969, and a PhD from Australian National University in 1973.{{cite web|url=http://climate.anu.edu.au/|title=Climate Change Institute|website=Climate Change Institute}}
Farquhar was appointed Professor of the Australian National University’s Research School of Biology and Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis. His work to model plant biophysics has helped to understand how cells, whole plants and whole forests work, and to create new water-efficient wheat varieties. His latest project is attempting to determine which trees will grow faster in a high carbon dioxide atmosphere.{{cite web|url=http://science.gov.au/community/PrimeMinistersPrizesforScience/Recipients/2015/Pages/Graham-Farquhar.aspx|title=Prime Minister's Prize for Science - Professor Graham Farquhar AO|publisher=Australian Government|accessdate = 6 December 2015}}
In 2014 Farquhar, along with CSIRO agronomist Richard Richards, was awarded the Rank Prize in Nutrition, for "pioneering the understanding of isotope discrimination in plants and its application to breed wheat varieties that use water more efficiently", which related to a discovery the pair made in the 1980s.{{cite web | title=Rank Prize | website=ANU Research School of Biology | url=https://biology.anu.edu.au/about/awards/rank-prize | language=xh | access-date=11 July 2020}}
Farquhar was awarded the Prime Minister's Prize for Science in 2015 for his modelling of photosynthesis {{cite web|url=http://science.gov.au/community/PrimeMinistersPrizesforScience/Recipients/2015/Pages/Graham-Farquhar.aspx|title= Prime Minister's Prize for Science |publisher= Australian Government|accessdate = 6 December 2015}} and the Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture by the Australian Academy of Science in 2016.{{cite web|url=https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/career-awards/macfarlane-burnet-medal-and|title=Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture|publisher= Australian Academy of Science|accessdate= 22 February 2017}} In 2017 he is the recipient of the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences (Biology).{{cite web|url=http://www.kyotoprize.org/en/|title=Kyoto Prize, Inamori Foundation|website=Kyoto Prize, Inamori Foundation}}
On 25 January 2018, Farquhar was named Senior Australian of the Year.{{cite web|url=https://biology.anu.edu.au/research/labs/farquhar-group-coordination-co2-fixation-and-transpiration-plants|title=Farquhar Group - Coordination of CO2 fixation and transpiration in plants|date=13 November 2013|website=RSB}}{{cite web |title=Graham Farquhar named 2018 Senior Australian of the Year |url=https://biology.anu.edu.au/news-events/graham-farquhar-named-2018-senior-australian-year |website=Australian National University |accessdate=26 March 2019 |language=en |date=25 January 2018}} By the number of citations, he is the most cited author of some plant science journals such as Planta, Plant, Cell and Environment, Functional Plant Biology. {{Cite web |url=https://exaly.com/author/5776980/graham-d-farquhar/rankings |title=Graham D. Farquhar citation rankings |website=Exaly | access-date=2022-06-24}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090630090407/http://lwa.gov.au/projects/3231]
- http://www.nasonline.org/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20111129103334/http://science.org.au/scientists/interviews/p/gp.html
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Category:Australian physicists
Category:Academic staff of the Australian National University
Category:Australian National University alumni
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
Category:Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
Category:Kyoto laureates in Basic Sciences
Category:Officers of the Order of Australia
Category:Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences