Brian Robson Award

About this scholarship

Each year the Research School of Physics in the ANU College of Science and Medicine may offer one or more awards known as the Brian Robson Award. Funding for this Award has been provided by an endowment made to The Australian National University in 2025 by Emeritus Honorary Professor Brian Robson. Brian Robson holds an MSc, PhD and DSc from the University of Melbourne. He is an Emeritus Honorary Professor in the Department of Fundamental and Theoretical Physics at the ANU Research School of Physics. Over many decades he has worked at ANU, publishing in various fields from nuclear physics to particle physics and cosmology. The objective of the Award is to assist international or domestic Honours students, postgraduate research candidates and early career researchers (ECR) working in the area of Theoretical Physics in the Research School of Physics to attend a conference or workshop, make a collaborative visit to an overseas institution or in an Australian university, host a collaborator, or organise a scientific event (workshop, summer school). It is the intention of the Research School and the donor that the Award is used to enhance career opportunities and experience of ECRs and students in theoretical physics, preferably in the research area of nuclear and particle physics.

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