[ASA] Pawsey Medal to Keith Bannister!

[John Lattanzio]

The Australian Academy of Science has announced its Honorific Awardees for
2022
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Please join me in congratulating Keith Bannister on winning the 2022 Pawsey
Medal
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The citation reads:

*Dr Keith Bannister is an exceptional scientist who has led several
projects at the forefront of radio astronomy, especially in the area of
fast radio burst (FRB) research. His great strength is that he has a deep
understanding of both astronomy and radio-science engineering. These
qualities enable him to envisage novel and powerful techniques to advance
key science goals, to bring systems based on these techniques to fruition,
and then to harvest the scientific returns. By exploiting the unique
wide-field capabilities of CSIRO's ASKAP radio telescope, Dr Bannister and
his team doubled the number of FRBs known at the time. He then went on to
devise and implement a scheme to determine their precise sky positions,
thereby identifying their source location in distant galaxies. These
results provided vital clues on FRBs’ astrophysical origin and also
identified the location of 50 per cent of the missing baryons in the
universe.*

Congratulations Keith!

John Lattanzio

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Professor John Lattanzio
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School of Physics and Astronomy
Monash University Victoria 3800 AUSTRALIA

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