Editing Australian Academy of Science (section)

==Fellows==
{{main|List of Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science}}
The Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science is made up of around 500 leading Australian scientists. Scientists judged by their peers to have made an exceptional contribution to knowledge in their field may be elected to Fellowship of the academy. Twenty new Fellows may be elected every year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.science.org.au/fellows/policies-and-procedures.html |title=Election policies and procedures |publisher=Australian Academy of Science |access-date=23 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120506043841/http://science.org.au/fellows/policies-and-procedures.html# |archive-date=6 May 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>

No more than two Fellows may be elected every three years on the basis of distinguished contributions to science by means other than personal research. A small number of distinguished foreign scientists with substantial connections to Australian science are elected as Corresponding Members.

Fellows are denoted by the letters '''FAA''' (Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science) after their name.

===Foundation Fellows===
When the academy was founded in 1954 there were 24 members, known as the Foundation Fellows:

{| class="wikitable"
! Name                                           !! Field
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|[[Keith Edward Bullen]]                         ||Mathematics and geophysics
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|[[Frank Macfarlane Burnet]]                     ||Virology and immunology (Nobel laureate)
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|[[David Guthrie Catcheside]]                    ||Genetics
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|[[Thomas MacFarland Cherry]]                    ||Mathematics
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|[[Ian Clunies Ross]]                            ||Parasitology and science administration
|-
|[[Edmund Alfred Cornish]]                       ||Statistics
|-
|[[John Eccles (neurophysiologist)|John Eccles]] ||Neuroscience (Nobel laureate)
|-
|[[Edwin Sherbon Hills]]                         ||Geology
|-
|[[Leonard Huxley (physicist)|Leonard Huxley]]   ||Physics
|-
|[[Raymond James Wood Le Fèvre]]                 ||Chemistry
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|[[Max Rudolf Lemberg]]                          ||Biochemistry
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|[[Hedley Ralph Marston]]                        ||Biochemistry
|-
|[[Leslie H. Martin|Leslie Martin]]              ||Physics
|-
|[[David Forbes Martyn]]                         ||Physics
|-
|[[Douglas Mawson]]                              ||Geology
|-
|[[Alexander John Nicholson]]                    ||Entomology
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|[[Mark Oliphant]]                               ||Physics
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|[[Joseph Lade Pawsey]]                          ||Radiophysics and astronomy
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|[[James Arthur Prescott]]                       ||Agricultural science
|-
|[[David Rivett]]                                ||Chemistry
|-
|[[Thomas Gerald Room]]                          ||Mathematics
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|[[Sydney Sunderland]]                           ||Neuroscience
|-
|[[Oscar Werner Tiegs]]                          ||Zoology
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|[[Richard van der Riet Woolley]]                ||Astronomy
|}