Cavalcade of Scientists information pages

These pages contain information on a range of outstanding Australian scientists (past and present) and their achievements.

These pages were originally developed as part of the Tall Poppy Campaign’s Cavalcade of Scientists; a science education project that brought the work of Australia’s most outstanding scientists (past and present) to school students. The project sought nominations for Australia’s most outstanding scientists from the country’s most prestigious science organisations and developed these educational resources to improve school students' understanding of important scientific developments and their recognition of the Australian scientists who achieved them. 

 

Thomas Bancroft – Tropical Medicine Physician and Naturalist

 

Graeme Clark – Otolaryngologist

 

Suzanne Cory & Jerry Adams – Molecular Geneticists

 

William Farrer – Agriculturalist

 

Lawrence Hargrave – Aviation Pioneer and Inventor

 

Barry Marshall – Gastroenterologist

 

Sir Douglas Mawson – Geologist and Antarctic Explorer

 

Joseph Pawsey – Radiophysicist and Radio Astronomer

 

Allan Snyder – Optical Physicist/Visual Scientist

 

Fiona Stanley – Paediatrician and Epidemiologist

 

Sir Ian Wark – Chemist and Mineralogist

 

J. Robin Warren – Pathologist

Sir Howard Florey (create sheet & link it here) – Experimental Pathologist and Bacteriologist