Women break prize drought by winning five 2019 prime minister's science awards
by Paul Karp from on (#4SPHX)
Mathematician Cheryl Praeger takes top gong and is praised for 'outstanding contribution to mathematics'
A record number of women have received prime minister's science awards, with mathematician Cheryl Praeger taking out the top gong.
On Wednesday evening Praeger, whose expertise in group theory and combinatorial mathematics has underpinned advances in algebra research and computer cryptography, was awarded the prime minister's prize for science.
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