The Mueller Medal
Background
The Mueller Medal was initiated at the ninth meeting of ANZAAS Council in Hobart, 1902 and was designed by Baldwin Spencer, a friend and protege of the Baron; it shows the subject solemnly contemplating a spray of acacia on the obverse with, on the reverse, a waratah flower and the name of the recipient.
It honours Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller, one of Australia's great pioneers of exploration and science, who arrived in Australia in 1847 and was the Government Botanist of Victoria for 44 years.
The Medal is awarded at the annual ANZAAS Congress to a scientist who is the author of important contributions to anthropological, botanical, geological or zoological science, preferably with special reference to Australia.
Mueller Medal Recipients
1904 Dr Alfred William Howitt
1907 Prof James Peter Hill
1909 Prof
Tannatt William Edgeworth David
1911 Mr Robert Etheridge
1913 Rev Walter
Howchin
1921 Mr Richard Thomas Baker
1922 Prof Charles Chilton
1923 Mr
Joseph Henry Maiden
1924 Mr Andrew Gibb Maitland
1926 Prof Frederic Wood
Jones
1928 Dr Leonard Cockayne
1930 Sir Douglas Mawson
1932 Mr
John McConnell Black
1935 Dr Robin John Tillyard
1937 Prof Ernest
Willington Skeats
1939 Prof Thomas Harvey Johnston
1946 Mr Earnest
Clayton Andrews
Mr Cyril Tenison White
1949 Prof William John
Dakin
1951 Dr William Noel Benson
1952 Mr Heber Albert Longman
1954
Prof James Arthur Prescott
1955 Dr Lionel Batley Bull
1957 Emerett Prof
Adolphus Peter Elkin
1958 Dr Hedley Ralph Marston
1959 Dr William Rowan
Browne
1961 Dr Ian Murray MacKerras
1962 Sir Frank MacFarlane
Burnet
1964 Prof Frank John Fenner
1965 Prof Michael James Denham
White
1967 Prof Dorothy Hill
1968 Norman H Taylor
1969 Dr John Cawte
Beaglehole
1970 Sir Rutherford Ness Robertson
1971 Prof William Edward
Hanley Stanner
1972 Dr Douglas Frew Waterhouse
1973 Prof Reginald John
Moir
1975 Prof Alfred Edward Ringwood
1976 Prof Lindsay Dixon
Pryor
1977 Prof Archibald Keverall McIntyre
1979 Prof Walter Victor
MacFarlane
1980 Prof J Horace Waring
1981 Prof John Fredrick Adrain
Sprent
1982 Miss Isobel Bennett
1983 Dr Leonard J Webb
1984 Dr
Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson
1985 Dr Roy Woodall
1987 Prof Hugh Bryan
Spencer Womersley
1988 Prof James Patrick Quirk
1990 Prof Albert Russell
Main
1991 Prof Graham Frank Mitchell
1992 Prof Adrienne Elizabeth
Clarke
1993 Prof Charles Rowland Twidale
1994 Prof Michael Archer
1995
Dr Winifred Curtis
1996 Dr Sophie Charlotte Ducker
1997 Prof Marilyn
Renfree
1994 Professor Michael Archer
1995 Dr Winifred Curtis
1996 Dr Sophie Charlotte Ducker
1997 Professor Marilyn Renfree
2001 Dr Mary White
2005 Professor Richard Shine