Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Professor Derek Leinweber (School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences) has been elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in recognition of an outstanding career dedicated to unearthing the most fundamental secrets of matter.
Professor Leinweber is renowned for elucidating the phenomena emerging from Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the relativistic quantum field theory of the strong interactions.
“I congratulate Professor Leinweber on being elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science,” said Professor Peter Høj AC, Vice-Chancellor and President, the University of Adelaide.