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CSIRO MEDIA RELEASE 95/128

CSIRO MEDALS: CHAIRMAN'S GOLD FOR HORSE VIRUS RESEARCH
CSIRO, ANU researchers also win medals

CSIRO's $25,000 Chairman's Medal was today awarded to the team led by Dr Keith Murray of the Australian Animal Health Laboratory, which identified the equine horse virus in 1994.

Professor John de Laeter, CSIRO Board Member, presented the medal on behalf of CSIRO Chairman Professor Adrienne Clarke at a ceremony at the State Film Theatre in Melbourne, to Dr Murray and his team of seven (Dr Keith Murray, Dr Alex Hyatt, Dr Allan Gould, Dr Peter Hooper, Mr Paul Selleck, Dr Harvey Westbury and Dr Laurie Gleeson).

Professor de Laeter said, "the work done by the Australian Animal Health Laboratory has been recognised internationally for the speed, the accuracy, and the quality of the research." The Chairman's Medal, which is awarded annually, is a gold medal which also carries a cash prize of $25,000. The award is for the best CSIRO research in the previous year.

Other medals presented by Professor de Laeter were to:

• Professor Allan W Snyder and Professor John Mitchell from the Australian National University for the conceptual breakthrough that light itself could guide and manipulate light without intervening structures such as optical fibres - 'Light Guiding Light'.

• Dr Barry Harrowfield, Mr Gary Robinson and Mr Ken Atkinson from the Division of Wool Technology for their work in inventing, developing and commercialising the 'Very High Speed Carding' process

• Dr Nicholas Stokes, Dr Chin-Hsien Li, Dr Xiao-Lin Luo, Dr John Mooney, Dr Zili Zhu and Dr Noel Barton from the Division of Mathematics and Statistics for outstanding research achievement in the development of software called Fastflo.

• Dr Geoffrey Syme of the Division of Water Resources for his contributions to the design of methodologies to measure community risk/benefit trade-offs; defining perceived "fairness" in water allocation; and advancing economic psychological theory.

CSIRO Chairman Professor Adrienne Clarke is overseas.

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