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The 2023 Jak Kelly Award prize goes to... The Science Show - Separate stories podcast
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The Jak Kelly Award is awarded to encourage excellence in postgraduate physics research.
It's given annually in honour of Professor Jak Kelly - the Head of Physics at University of NSW from 1985 to 1989.
In 2023, the winner was Dr Jaime Andrés Alvarado-Montes from Macquarie University, who studies planets.
He specialises in Hot Jupiters (featured in a recent Science Show).
But, unlike our own Jupiter, he has found several so close to their sun that they are torn apart. Could this have been the history of our planet Earth?
We also hear from several winners of scholarships presented by the Royal Society of NSW:
For better treatment of bowel cancer;
Chemical analysis of human cells;
Tracking of PFAS - the anti-fire measure; and,
A way the scientist claims is 99 per cent effective for identifying fake news
Guests:
Dr Jaime Andrés Alvarado-Montes, Macquarie University
Jayden Mckinnon, University of Wollongong
Dr Jacinta Martin, University of Newcastle
Dr Abhimanu Pandey, Australian National University
Shoujin Wang, UTS
The Jak Kelly Award is awarded to encourage excellence in postgraduate physics research.
It's given annually in honour of Professor Jak Kelly - the Head of Physics at University of NSW from 1985 to 1989.
In 2023, the winner was Dr Jaime Andrés Alvarado-Montes from Macquarie University, who studies planets.
He specialises in Hot Jupiters (featured in a recent Science Show).
But, unlike our own Jupiter, he has found several so close to their sun that they are torn apart. Could this have been the history of our planet Earth?
We also hear from several winners of scholarships presented by the Royal Society of NSW:
For better treatment of bowel cancer;
Chemical analysis of human cells;
Tracking of PFAS - the anti-fire measure; and,
A way the scientist claims is 99 per cent effective for identifying fake news
Guests:
Dr Jaime Andrés Alvarado-Montes, Macquarie University
Jayden Mckinnon, University of Wollongong
Dr Jacinta Martin, University of Newcastle
Dr Abhimanu Pandey, Australian National University
Shoujin Wang, UTS
22 min