Professor Graham Farquhar AO has become the first Australian to win a Kyoto Prize - the most prestigious international award for fields not traditionally honoured with a Nobel Prize.

Watch Graham talk about his research on YouTube.

Read more about Graham's research and the Kyoto Prize.
 

Below from left to right: RSB Plant Sciences Head, Professor Owen Atkin, RSB Director Professor Allen Rodrigo, Distinguished Professor Graham Farquhar, and ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt toast Graham's achievement. Photo: Sharyn Wragg