University congratulates David Boger on PM’s Science Prize win
Media Release, Tuesday 4 October 2005
The University of Melbourne has welcomed the award of the 2005 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science to one of Australia’s most outstanding scientists, the University’s Professor David Boger.
Congratulating Professor Boger today, University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor Professor Glyn Davis said the Prize was a well-deserved recognition of David Boger’s lifetime of pioneering work in fluid mechanics.
“This is a stunning achievement and a fitting acknowledgement of Professor Boger’s landmark work in non-Newtonian fluids – now widely-known as ‘Boger fluids’,” he said. “It is the latest of a stream of successive plaudits confirming that his research yields great value to related areas of innovation and occupies a vital role in the future of microfluidics.”
Prime Minister John Howard presented Professor Boger with the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science - the nation's pre-eminent award for excellence in science - at a ceremony in the Great Hall at Parliament House in Canberra tonight (4 October).
The Prize is given for an outstanding specific achievement in any area of science advancing human welfare or benefiting society and comprises an embossed gold medallion and a tax-exempt grant of $300,000.
At the University of Melbourne, David Boger is a Laureate Professor in Chemical Engineering, former Director (and currently Chair of the Advisory Board) of the ARC Special Research Centre for Particulate Fluids Processing, and Research Program Leader in the Cooperative Research Centre for Bioproducts.
Over the past 40 years, he has explored the potential of non-Newtonian fluids in many different fields. Understanding how these fluids - that “break all the rules” - work underpins the custom design of fluids for many industries: inks for inkjet printers that can be delivered onto paper in incredibly fine droplets; insecticides that spread evenly on leaves; and new drug delivery systems; and environmentally-friendly disposal of mining waste and clean-up operations in the Antarctic.
The immense benefit of David Boger’s ideas in addressing the management of the liquid waste produced by mining operations presents an immediate and far-reaching consequence of his theoretical work. He is also recognized for his enduring work in inspiring future generations of chemical engineers and several of his students now lead research teams pursuing applications of Boger fluids across the country and the world.
David Boger’s services as a consultant are in high demand and he has provided advice for over 90 companies across many industries, worldwide.
He is a Fellow and Council member of the Australian Academy of Science, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, UK.
Professor Boger is the second distinguished University of Melbourne researcher to receive the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science since it was first awarded in 2000. In 2004, bionic ear pioneer and Laureate Professor Emeritus Graeme Clark received the Prize.
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