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All categories Literature & Letters202 Natural Sciences96 Mathematics & Computing36 Medicine & Healing Traditions99 Engineering & Technology24 Society, Peace & Law42 Economics, Business & Politics52 Music & Visual Arts0

Disciplines in Natural Sciences

All disciplines Physics32 Chemistry26 Biology36 Astronomy24 Neuroscience2

Physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy and the sciences of the earth and brain.

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All countries Australia5 Fiji1 New Zealand5 Samoa1

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Macfarlane Burnet

1899 – 1985

Acquired immune tolerance, the basis of transplantation.

Australia·Medicine · BiologyNobel

Maurice Wilkins

1916 – 2004

Shared the DNA structure Nobel.

New Zealand·Biology · PhysicsNobel

Elizabeth Blackburn

b. 1948

Discovered telomerase, central to ageing and cancer research.

Australia·Medicine · BiologyNobel