Australian National University

The Australian National University (ANU), is a university located in Canberra, the national capital of Australia. According to several international indices, it is the best university in Australia, being particularly strong in research. It is a member of Australia's "Group of Eight" lobby group.

Notable past and present staff

• Arthur Llewellyn Basham South Asian historian
• Arthur Birch, organic chemist
• Miroslav Bukovsky, composer
• Hedley Bull, Professor of International Relations
• David Chalmers, philosopher
• Manning Clark, historian
• John Coates, mathematician
• John Cockcroft, Nobel Prize- winning nuclear physicist, former chancellor
• H.C. Coombs, economist and public servant
• Rafe de Crespigny, sinologist
• Peter Doherty, Nobel Prize-winning immunologist
• John Carew Eccles, Nobel Prize-winning neurophysiologist
• Denis Evans, physicist and chemist
• Henry Evans Maude, anthropologist
• Frank Fenner, scientist
• Colin Groves, anthropologist
• Wang Gungwu, specialist in studying the Chinese diaspora
• Keith Hancock, historian
• A. D. Hope, poet and essayist
• Leonard Huxley, physicist
• Frank Cameron Jackson, philosopher
• Zvonimir Janko, mathematician
• Rhys Jones, archaeologist
• Roger Keesing, anthropologist
• Mark Oliphant, physicist and Governor of South Australia
• Michael Salla, political scientist
• Jeremy Shearmur, philosopher
• J. J. C. Smart, philosopher
• Allan Snyder, optical physicist/visual scientist
• Oskar Spate, geographer
• Anna Wierzbicka, linguist
• Peter Singer, philosopher
• Michael Vernon, scientist and consumer activist