The Geoff Wilson Medal
The Geoff Wilson medal is awarded annually by the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment at Deakin University to celebrate the career of Professor Geoffrey Victor Herbert Wilson AM. A limited number of medals are awarded each year to eminent scientists, judged to have made an outstanding contribution to the Faculty in the international arena, in research, teaching or administration.
Nominations close on 1st December and should be forwarded to:
Andrea Jeffreys
Manager Strategy, Planning and Research Administration Group
Faculty of Science and Technology
Phone: 03 9251 7460 | Fax: 03 9251 7463 | Email: andrea.jeffreys@deakin.edu.au
The nomination must be no more than one page of single spaced 12 pt font and outline the outstanding contribution that the nominee has made to the Faculty.
Professor Geoffrey Victor Herbert Wilson AM or Geoff, as he prefers to be known, is a former Vice-Chancellor of Deakin University. Highlights of his career include being made a Nuffield Fellow, a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow and at one time Professor of Physics at UNSW. He has made a major contribution to Science both nationally and internationally and at various times was Chair of The Federation of the Australian Scientific and Technological Society, Inaugural Chair of the Research Grants Committee of the ARC and President of the Australian Institute of Physics. He served as Rector of the Australian Defence Forces Academy, Vice-Chancellor of The University of Central Queensland and as Vice-Chancellor of Deakin University.
In the course of a distinguished research career at Monash University, UNSW, Oxford University and the Free University of Berlin, Professor Wilson carried out research on very low temperatures in the milliKelvin range and magnetic materials He published extensively in international journals and supervised many higher degree students.
He was a pioneer in temperature modulation of magnetic materials and led the first successful detection of pulsed magnetic resonance through the observation of the nuclear radiations. In recognition of his long and substantial career in education, Professor Wilson was made a Member of the Order of Australia.
The Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment honours a life-long contribution to Science and Education with the annual awards of the Geoff Wilson Medal.
List of Recipients
| 2003 | Professor Elo H Hansen Department of Chemistry Technical University of Denmark Denmark |
| Professor Gary D Christian Department of Chemistry University of Washington Seattle United States of America |
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| Professor Alan Townshend Department of Chemistry University of Hull United Kingdom |
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| Professor John J Jonas McGill University Department of Mining, Metals and Materials Engineering Montreal Canada |
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| Professor John H Beynon Department of Engineering Materials University of Sheffield United Kingdom |
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| 2004 | Professor Yoshio Takei Department of Marine Life Science University of Tokyo Japan |
| Professor Andrew Barry School of Architecture , Civil and Environmental Engineering Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Lausanne Switzerland |
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| 2005 | Professor Ian Edwards Archaeology and Materials Research Unit (AMRU) School of Ecology and Environment Deakin University Australia |
| Dr Philip Jones University of Plymouth United Kingdom |
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| 2006 | Emeritus Professor John Duncan University of Auckland New Zealand |
| 2007 | Professor Michael Adams RMIT University Australia |
