Bryan Gaensler (Australia)
Astronomy
Award-winning astronomer, author and science communicator internationally recognised for groundbreaking work on dying stars, interstellar magnets and cosmic explosions, Brian Gaensler is a former Young Australian of the Year, NASA Hubble Fellow and Harvard Professor. Australian Laureate Fellow at the University of Sydney, and Director of the Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics, he gave the 2001 Australia Day Address, was named one of Sydney’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ for 2010, and in 2011 was awarded Australia’s Pawsey Medal for outstanding research by a Physicist aged under 40. His popular Astronomy book ‘Extreme Cosmos’ will be published by New South Books in September 2011
