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Each year the Australian Academy of Science elects up to 24 new
Fellows. Incoming President of the AAS, Professor Chennupati Jagadish
noted, "Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science are among the
nation’s most distinguished scientists, elected by their peers for
ground-breaking research and contributions that have had clear impact."
One of the new fellows elected this year is
long-time ATNF telescope user and former
Bolton Fellow, Naomi McClure-Griffiths.
Naomi's citation reads:
"Naomi McClure-Griffiths is Australia's pre-eminent expert on the
atomic hydrogen gas distribution and evolution in our galaxy, the
Milky Way, and its neighbours, the Magellanic Clouds. She has made
seminal contributions to our understanding of atomic gas and magnetism
within these galaxies through leadership of high-fidelity
observational surveys undertaken with Australia's radio telescope
facilities. Her work includes the discovery of a new spiral arm within
the Milky Way, the first detection of neutral gas out-flowing from the
nucleus of the Milky Way, and the pioneering demonstration of the
importance of magnetic fields in the flow of matter into the Galactic
disk."
(Image credit: Australian Academy of Science)
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