List of Australian inventors and discoverers

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The list of Australian inventors and explorers is a list of inventors and explorers from Australia in alphabetical order of the family name.

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Frank Macfarlane Burnet

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De Moles Tank Model at the Australian War Memorial
  • Peter Doherty (* 1940), immunologist "for her discovery of how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells" (Nobel Prize for Medicine, together with Rolf Zinkernagel)
  • As early as 1912, Lancelot de Mole submitted a proposal to the British War Office , supplemented by detailed drawings, for an armored tracked vehicle that was easy to steer and capable of negotiating rough terrain and trenches. The War Office rejected this proposal, however. A model of De Mole's invention is in the Australian War Memorial.
  • Guillaume Daniel Delprat , Dutch-Australian metallurgist at BHP , where he and Charles Potter invented the principle of foam flotation, which made ore processing much more economical.
  • John Dethridge , Commissioner for the Victorian State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, developed the Dethridge Wheel, which can be used to measure the amount of water used to irrigate agricultural land.
  • John W. Dickenson introduced the control system used to this day for the hang glider with a central suspension for the pilot and the triangular control bar. Then he developed various hang gliders that are exemplary for today's models. In 2012 he received the Gold Air Medal of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale in recognition of his work on the development of modern hang gliders
  • Sally Dominguez Australian designer. Her work includes the Nest High Chair, the design of which has since been included as an exhibit in the Powerhouse Museum 's collection , as well as a modular water tank that can be installed both horizontally and vertically

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John Carew Eccles
  • John Carew Eccles (1903–1997): “for their discoveries about the ion mechanism that takes place during excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central areas of the nerve cell membrane” (Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1963, together with Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley)
  • Ted Eldred

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Howard Walter Florey
  • Howard W. Florey "for discovering the healing properties of penicillin in various infectious diseases" (Nobel Prize for Medicine, together with Alexander Fleming and Ernst Boris Chain)

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  • Lawrence Hargrave , aviation pioneer; As the first person in Australia, he took off in 1894 with a flying machine that was heavier than air
  • James Harrison (Engineer) , Australian newspaper editor and engineer who pioneered refrigeration. In 1854 he developed the first commercial ice machine and the first practicable steam pressure refrigerator a year later.
  • Milan Hudecek A pioneer in the field of assistive technology, he developed the Eureka 4a, the first computer for the blind
  • Walter Hume he develops a system for the production of spun concrete pipes

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Barry Marshall , 2008

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George Augustine Taylor in his self-made glider in Narrabeen in 1909

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David Warren with the prototype of a flight recorder

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Exhibit in the Powerhouse Museum. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
  2. ^ Inventions from Tasmania. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Inspiration For Tank. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Description of the functional principle. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
  5. ↑ biography. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Description of the Dethrigde Wheels in the Powerhouse Museum. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
  7. ^ Company website. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Oyster farmers invent the surf ski. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Wolseley, Frederick York (1837-1899), Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .