ADRI Honorary Fellow, Jo Chandler, receives prize for best short non-fiction writing for a general audience.
It seems there is no end to our ADRI members' success!
To add to the accolades, ADRI Honorary Fellow, Jo Chandler, has been honoured at the inaugural Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing held at the Tyree Energy Technologies Building and attended by Chief Scientist Professor Ian Chubb.
Established by NewSouth Publishing this year, the annual prize recognises the best short non-fiction writing for a general audience.
It is named in honour of Australia’s first Nobel Laureates, William Henry Bragg and his son William Lawrence Bragg, who won the 1915 Nobel Prize for physics for their work on the analysis of crystal structures using X-rays.
Professor Ian Chubb was on hand to present the winner’s prize of $7000 to Jo Chandler for her piece ‘Storm Front’, an excerpt from her book Feeling the Heat.
The judges praised Chandler's “masterful narrative which transformed science from a stultifying polemic to an engaging personal story”.
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