Eureka Prizes

2020 prizes

Research & Innovation

• Applied Environmental Research, presented by NSW Environment, Energy and Science
• Excellence in Data Science, presented by the University of Technology Sydney
• Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research, presented by The University of New South Wales
• Infectious Diseases Research, presented by the Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre at the University of Queensland
• Innovative Use of Technology, presented by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
• Outstanding Early Career Researcher, presented by Macquarie University
• Outstanding Science in Safeguarding Australia, presented by Defence Science and Technology Organisation
• Scientific Research, presented by the University of New South Wales

  Leadership

• Emerging Leader in Science, presented by 3M
• Leadership in Innovation and Science, presented by CSIRO
• Outstanding Mentor of Young Researchers, presented by University of Technology, Sydney

  Science Engagement

• Innovation in Citizen Science, presented by the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science
• Long-Form Science Journalism, presented by the Finkel Foundation.
• Promoting Understanding of Science, presented by Celestino
• Science Journalism, presented by the Australian Museum
• STEM Inclusion, presented by the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

  School Science

• Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize, presented by the University of Sydney Faculty of Science

  Past winners

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

• Branka Vucetic, Electrical engineer at the University of Sydney

  2011

• Skeptical Science, founded by John Cook, for contribution to Global Warming research.

  1997

• Penny van Oosterzee won her second Eureka Prize

  1995

• Ian Plimer, of the University of Melbourne Department of Earth Sciences, author of Telling Lies for God

  1994

• Dr Barbara Hardy of the Investigator Science and Technology Centre, Adelaide, won the prize for science promotion
• Dr Kath Bowmer, deputy chief of CSlRO's Division of Water Resources, for environmental research
• Petaluma Wines of South Australia for application of science to wine-making
• Dr David Malin, author of A View of the Universe and Mary E. White, author of The Browning of Australia, shared prize

  1993

• Patricia Vickers-Rich, of Monash University, and Tom Rich, of the Museum of Victoria for their book Wildlife of Gondwana
• Professor David Allen, astronomer at the Anglo-Australian Observatory, for science promotion

  1992

• Questacon, hands-on science demonstrations centre in Canberra won the prize for education
• Australian Minerals Industry Research Association of Victoria, won the prize for industry
• The coral spawning team led by members of the Museum of Tropical Queensland, Townsville, for environmental research
• Professor Paul Davies, for his book The Mind of God

  1991

• Ben Selinger of ANU, author of Chemistry in the Marketplace
• Professor Paul Davies of Adelaide University, author of several best-sellers
• Peter Laver of BHP Limited recognizing that company's investment in R&D
• Peter Keating of Biotech International, also for investing in R&D
• Martin Green, founder and director of the Centre for Photovoltaic Devices and Systems at the University of NSW
• Penny Van Oosterzee won the science book prize for The Centre, on Australia's desert regions.

  1990

• The inaugural Eureka Prize for Industry was awarded by the panel of seven judges to F. H. Faulding for a slow-release form of analgesic.