Pollock Award and Lectureship int the Physical Sciences and Mathematics
About the Award
This award recognises distinguished research in any area of the Physical Sciences and Mathematics, excluding the Chemical and Earth Sciences, conducted mainly in New South Wales. Recipients may be resident in Australia or elsewhere.
The Pollock Memorial Lectureship was first awarded in 1949, sponsored by The University of Sydney and the Society, in memory of J.A. Pollock, Professor of Physics at The University of Sydney (1899-1922) and a member of the Society for 35 years. In 2023, the Council designated it the Royal Society of NSW Pollock Award and Lectureship.
Pollock Memorial Lectureship 2021
The Pollock Memorial Lectureship for 2021 has been awarded to Professor Geraint Lewis FRSN FLSW, Professor of Astrophysics in the Sydney Institute for Astrophysics in the School of Physics of the University of Sydney. An outstanding researcher, Professor Lewis focuses on cosmological mysteries. Through exquisite and extensive observations with the world’s largest telescopes coupled with synthetic universes generated on immense supercomputers, he hunts for the dark side — the dark matter and dark energy that shape the cosmos. With significant discoveries that confront our ideas on the formation and evolution of galaxies, he has published extensively in international journals. His passion for cosmology and physics is reflected in his teaching and student supervision, as well as an extensive outreach program that brings the mysteries of the universe to diverse international audiences.
Pollock Memorial Lectureship 2017
The Pollock Memorial Lectureship for 2017 was awarded to Professor Andrea Morello FAPS FRSN, the Professor of Quantum Nanosystems inthe School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW Sydney. Professor Morello is an internationally recognised leader in quantum science and technology who has invented and demonstrated all of the fundamental building blocks of a silicon quantum computer, thereby laying the foundations for its practical manufacture.
List of Past Recipients of the RSNSW Pollock Award and Lectureship
| Year & Lecturer | Year & Lecturer |
|---|---|
| 1949 T.M. Cherry 1952 H.S.W. Massey 1955 R. vd R. Woolley 1959 Sir Harold Jeffreys 1962 F. Hoyle 1965 F. Seitz 1969 A.R. Sandage 1972 L. Schwartz 1975 J.T. Wilson 1978 R.N. Bracewell |
1981 E.E. Salpeter 1984 R.S. Pease 1995 D. Mills 2001 M. Bilek 2006 B. Josephson 2009 B. Schmidt 2013 M. Simmons 2017 A. Morello 2021 G. Lewis |