Australian Museum Eureka Prizes finalists announced
The Australian Museum presents Australia’s premier science awards program.
Congratulations to the 100 individuals who were announced as this year’s finalists and are competing for 17 prizes worth $170,000.
Plus 10 stunning images revealed…
The 2013 Eureka Prizes finalists have discovered:
- Better bulls emit less methane (Armidale)
- How to use car tyres to make steel (Sydney/Newcastle)
- The causes and effects of catastrophic firestorms (Sydney/Canberra)
- How bats can help us treat deadly diseases (Geelong)
- A hypodermic camera to guide surgeons (Perth)
- A bionic eye to proof-of-concept stage (Melbourne/Sydney)
- Nanotechnologies to deliver drugs to their targets (Melbourne)
- The sinister effects of micro-plastics in the oceans (Sydney)
- How to personalise leukaemia therapy (Sydney)
- How to slow the progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Melbourne)
- The mysteries of locust swarming (Sydney)
They’ve invented:
- A hypodermic camera to guide surgeons (Perth)
- A bionic eye to proof-of-concept stage (Melbourne/Sydney)
- Nanotechnologies to deliver drugs to their targets (Melbourne)
They’ve revealed:
- The sinister effects of micro-plastics in the oceans (Sydney)
- How to personalise leukaemia therapy (Sydney)
- How to slow the progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Melbourne)
- The mysteries of locust swarming (Sydney)
Read about these and the many other achievements of the 2013 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes finalists at australianmuseum.net.au/eureka
Also revealed today: top ten stunning science photographs for 2013
Ten stunning images have been highly commended in the New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography. All 10 images are online here; they’re also available for publication. Here’s one of the shots:
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Stuart Hirth: Fluid Mechanics shows a collection of liquid splashes, photographed over a period of many months and brought together in one image. The splashes from a single drop landing in a puddle are photographed in darkness and illuminated with a high-speed flash to show the colours and beautiful shapes. |
“The Eureka Prize finalists across Australia are doing remarkable research that is saving lives, protecting the landscape, and creating opportunities for new jobs and industries,” says Frank Howarth, Director of the Australian Museum.
“We’re looking forward to announcing the winners in the presence of 700 science, government, culture and media leaders at Sydney Town Hall on Wednesday 4 September 2013.”
Details about all 2013 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes finalists are now online at australianmuseum.net.au/eureka
For media enquiries please contact the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes media team
- Niall Byrne, niall@scienceinpublic.com.au, 0417 131 977
- AJ Epstein, aj@scienceinpublic.com.au, 0433 339 141
The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes are the country’s most comprehensive national science awards, honouring excellence across the four categories of Research and Innovation, Leadership and Commercialisation, Science Communication and Journalism, and School Science.