Rare prize goes to crop scientist in field of his own

Updated June 28 2018 - 1:19pm, first published January 2 2018 - 12:00am
FLOWER POWER – Graham Farquhar has become the first Australian to win the Kyoto Prize. Photo: Stuart Hay
FLOWER POWER – Graham Farquhar has become the first Australian to win the Kyoto Prize. Photo: Stuart Hay

IN A rare tribute, 70-year-old ACT scientist Graham Farquhar has become the first Australian to win the Kyoto Prize – the most prestigious award in the world for fields not recognised by the Nobel Prize.

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