archaeologist of Prehistoric Europe Peter Cockcroft – petroleum geologist, researcher Sir Edgeworth David – geologist and Antarctic explorer Ove Hoegh-Guldberg – marine biologist and climate scientist Basil Hennessy – archaeologist of the Ancient Near East Sir Douglas Mawson – geologist and Antarctic explorer Beryl Nashar – geologist; first female PhD in geology at an Australian university (UTas); first female Dean of an Australian university David O'Connor – Egyptologist Timothy Potts – art historian, archaeologist, and museum director Karin Sowada – archaeologist of Egypt Griffith Taylor – Antarctic explorer; Professor of Geography at the University of Chicago; founder of the Geography department at the University of Toronto Mathematics and economics Robert Griffiths – Professor of Mathematical Genetics at University of Oxford Peter Gavin Hall – Professor of Statistics at University of California, Davis John Harsanyi – Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1994) Richard Holden – Professor of Economics at UNSW Business School Jan Kmenta – Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of Michigan Kelvin Lancaster – creator of the theory of the second best and "A New Approach to Consumer Theory"; John Bates Clark Professor of Economics at Columbia University Graeme Milton – Professor of Mathematics at University of Utah, recipient of SIAM Ralph E. Kleinman Prize and SIAM fellow Pat Moran – made significant contributions to probability theory and its application to population and evolutionary genetics Yew-Kwang Ng – economist at Monash University Graeme Segal – Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry; Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge (1990–1999) Eugene Seneta – co-inventor of the Variance-gamma distribution Trevor Swan – economist best known for his work on the Solow-Swan Model Justin Wolfers – economist at Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business Eddie Woo – secondary school teacher and writer best known for his online mathematics lessons published on YouTube Medicine George Henry Abbott – surgeon and former Fellow University of Sydney Katie Louisa Ardill – first woman to be appointed as a divisional surgeon in New South Wales; among the first female doctors when she joined the British Expeditionary Forces in Egypt in 1915 Nikos Athanasou – Professor of Musculoskeletal Pathology at Oxford University and Greek-Australian novelist Samy Azer – Professor of Medical Education; international medical educator Maxwell Bennett – proved that nerve terminals on muscles release transmitter molecules, rather than just the noradrenaline and acetylcholine that were previously known Dame Valerie Beral (graduated with first-class honours in both medicine