ATSE Clunies Ross Award for Cathy Foley and Keith Leslie

摘要

Leading Australian CSIRO physicist Dr Cathy Foley PSM FTSE and accomplished CSIRO engineer Keith Leslie are two of only five innovators honoured as Australia's foremost visionaries at this year's Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) Clunies Ross Awards. They have received a joint award honouring their contribution to Australia's scientific and economic prosperity through work that developed 'a highly sensitive magnetic device to detect ore bodies'. This technology has been responsible for discovering ore deposits with an estimated value of more than $10b globally and $4b nationally.