Which Australians have won Nobel prizes and what for?
Australia has produced more Nobel Prize winners per head of population than any other country in the world. Lawrence Bragg & William Bragg, physicists received the Nobel Prize in 1915 for their work in x-ray crystallography. They remain the only father and son team to be awarded the prize, and Lawrence who was aged 25 at the time is still the youngest recipient. Howard Florey received the prize in 1945 along with Alexander Fleming and Ernest Chain (both British) for their work on the medicinal properties of penicillin. It was Florey who later turned penicillin into the practical drug which was to save millions of lives. Macfarlane Burnett received the prize in 1960 for his work on immunology. John Eccles received the prize in 1963 along with Andrew Huxley and Alan Hodgkin (both British) for their work on nerve cells. Bernard Katz – received the prize in 1970 for Physiology and Medicine. Patrick White received the prize in 1973 for literature. John Cornforth received the prize in 1975 f
