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Winners & Finalists For 2001
Research & Innovation
- Prize for Industry
- Critical Thinking
- Winner
- Tim van Gelder
- For research questioning the effectiveness of current critical thinking courses and developing an alternative approach for schools.
- Finalists
- David Yardley
- For research clarifying and criticising responses to physicist Alan Sokal’s postmodernist writings.
- Scott Campbell
- For comprehensive research designed to refute attempts by postmodernists to undermine scientific theory.
- Jason Mattingley , Anina Rich
- For research into synaesthetic experiences – where a stimulus in one sensory modality triggers an immediate and vivid sensation in a different modality.
- Engineering Innovation
- Winner
- Baulderstone Hornibrook & Connell Wagner
- For the modelling, development and implementation of the Patawalonga Seawater Circulation and Stormwater Outlet venturi gravity solution.
- Finalists
- Fairfield City Council
- For design and construction of a project which transformed a concrete channel into a living stream.
- Advanced Rapid Robotic Manufacturing
- Protean 2D Spot Cutter
- The Pol Eureka Prize for Environmental Research
- Winner
- Richard Kingsford
- For ground-breaking and innovative research addressing the ecological crisis in rivers of arid Australia.
- Finalists
- Eric Kennedy , Bogdan Dlugogorski
- For innovative research designed to convert current stockpiles of ozone-depleting halons into environmentally benign products of economic value.
- Biodiversity Research
- Winner
- John Woinarski
- For a program of research leading to the implementation of a systematic approach to biodiversity conservation in the Northern Territory.
- Finalists
- Colin Yates , Richard Hobbs
- For research focusing on the conservation of Australia’s temperate woodlands.
- Neal Enright , Byron Lamont
- For research over 15 years to understand the ecology and conservation requirements of the genus Banksia.
- Alison Specht , R L Specht
- For research into the study of vegetation patterns and the physical and biotic factors which control them.
- Scientific Research
- Winner
- Brett Neilan
- For innovative research designed to enable the rapid and unambiguous identification of toxic cyanobacteria in water and sediments.
- Finalists
- Michael Ridding
- For research designed to demonstrate that enduring changes in human motor cortex can be induced by stimulation of sensory pathways.
- Matthew Colless
- For research leading to the first ever accurate measurement of the density of the Universe.
- Levon Michael Khachigian
- For research investigating the use of DNA-based as potential inhibitors for restenosis.
Science Communication & Journalism
- Environmental Education Program
- Winner
- Wildscape
- Promotion of Science
- Reed New Holland Eureka Science Book Prize
- Winner
- Patricia Vickers-Rich , Thomas H Rich
- Dinosaurs of Darkness
- Finalists
- Mary E White
- Running Down: water in a changing land
- Robert Brunet
- Australian Insects: a natural history
- Robert Paddle
- The Last Tasmanian Tiger: the history and extinction of the Thylacine
- Environmental Journalism
- Winner
- Simon Benson
- For a body of work investigating environmental issues.
- Finalists
- Michael Brissenden
- For investigative reporting exposing the Aural Gold cyanide spill in eastern Europe.
- Peter Fischer
- For a series of insightful articles focusing on the longer-term prospects for the environment of Australia and the planet as a whole.
- Claire Miller
- For a series of hard-hitting, consciousness-raising articles on the extent of environmental damage caused by an unaware and uniformed public.
- Greg Roberts
- For a series of two features and nine news stories examining the implications of excessive land clearing in Queensland.
- James Woodford
- For investigative reporting into the issue of native vegetation clearance.
- Science Journalism
- Winner
- Leigh Dayton ,Paul Schneller ,Chris Spurr
- For Unearthing Evil.
- Finalists
- Justine Ferrari
- For Secrets of the Womb.
- Charles Lineweaver ,David Salt
- For The Origin of the Universe.
- Rachel Nowak
- For Life in the Old Dog.
- Peter Pockley
- For Napalm, Magnesium & Bravado: The deadly ingredients of Australia's first Olympic ceremony finally revealed.