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The inaugural MacDiarmid Medal was presented to Dr Gary Evans of Industrial Research Ltd on 16 November 2011. Dr Evans is a chemist who have pioneered the design and synthesis of new pharmaceuticals for the treatment of major diseases. The medal is named after Nobel Prize winner Professor Alan MacDiarmid who was a New Zealander.
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New Zealand’s top science and technology honour, the Rutherford Medal, was awarded in 2011 to the first woman in the medal’s 20-year history. Biochemist Professor Christine Winterbourn from the University of Otago, Christchurch, won it for her work on free radicals spanning four decades. The medal is awarded by the Royal Society of New Zealand and includes a cash prize of $100,000 from the Government.
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The inaugural Callaghan Medal for science communication was awarded in 2011 to Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, the PM’s Chief Science Advisor, and recognises his achievement in science communication, particularly raising public awareness of the value of science to human progress. The medal is named after Professor Sir Paul Callaghan, who is regarded as a consummate science communicator.
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The Mysterious Maya: an ancient American civilisation Professor Norman Hammond Fellow of the British Academy and Archaeology Correspondent for The Times, London The Maya created one of the New World’s most surprising and accomplished civilizations in the tropical forest of Central America and Yucatan. Over a period of 2500 years, ending with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century, they moved from simple villages of maize farmers to great cities…
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2011 Rutherford Lecture- How to Make Life from the Primordial Soup Why RNA is the key ingredient to human life. One of the biggest questions in life is how did we get here? How did rock and steam become our world, full of life and diversity? The science community thought they had the answer with the achievement of the Human Genome Project just after the turn of the new millennium, however ten years on it seems that it may not be DNA which is the…
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