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Cognates
Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM)
Australasian Radiation Protection Society (ARPS)
Australasian Society for General Relativity and Gravitation (ASGRG)
Australian Acoustical Society (AAS)
Australian and New Zealand Optical Society (ANZOS)
Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA)
Australian Society of Rheology (ASR)
Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI)
Vacuum Society of Australia (VSA)
HONORARY FELLOWS
An Honorary Fellowship is the highest honour of the AIP and only awarded to distinguished persons intimately connected with physics, or a science allied thereto, whom the Australian Institute of Physics especially desires to honour for outstanding services in connection with that science.
Current Honorary Fellows
| Name | State |
|---|---|
| Prof David Booth | VIC |
| Prof Robert Crompton | ACT |
| Prof Robert Delbourgo | TAS |
| Dr Cathy Foley AO PSM | NSW |
| Prof Tony Klein | VIC |
| Prof Brian Schmidt | ACT |
Past Honorary Fellows
| Name | State | Year Became Fellow | YOB-YOD |
| Walter Moritz Boas | VIC | 1979 | 1904–1982 |
| William Stevenson Boundy | SA | 1990 | 1922-1999 |
| George Henry Briggs | NSW | 1964 | 1893-1987 |
| John Robert de Laeter | WA | 1992 | 1933-2010 |
| Arthur Frederick Alan Harper | NSW | 1975 | 1913–1991 |
| Herbert R Lang | UK | 1965 | 1904-1965 |
| Keith Campbell Lang | VIC | 1970 | 1908-? |
| John Francis Nicholas | VIC | 1962 | 1927-2017 |
| Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin "Mark" Oliphant | 1901-2000 | ||
| Geoffrey Ivan Opat | VIC | 2002 | 1935-2002 |
| Arthur Anthony Page | QLD | 1991 | 1922–2011 |
| John Russell Prescott | SA | 1991 | 1924-2011 |
| Charles Henry Brian (Bill) Priestley | VIC | 1982 | 1915-1998 |
| James Stanley Rogers | VIC | 1964 | 1893-1977 |
| Alexander David Ross | WA | 1964 | 1883–1966 |
| Brian Milton Spicer | VIC | 1928-2004 | |
| Robert Street | WA | 1992 | 1920-2013 |
| John Lloyd Symonds | NSW | 1924-2017 | |
| Sir Alan Walsh | VIC | 1979 | 1916-1998 |
| Hugh Colin Webster | VIC | 1970 | 1905-1979 |
| Sir Frederick William White | ACT | 1970 | 1905-1994 |
If you are aware of any errors or omissions with this list, please contact the AIP.