Australian Nobel Prize Winners

In 1915 The Braggs, Jun and Sen For Physics Sirs William and Laurie In 1945 Showing lots of drive (Howard Walter Baron Florey) In 47 It’s Chemical heaven For Sir Robert Robinson In 1960 By popular decree Burnet, Sir Frank Macfarlane Eccles, Sir John Carew Finally drew The short straw in 63 Sir Bernard Katz Joined the Nobel stats In 1970 Patrick Victor Martindale White Literally Had a victory night In 73 The Australian-British Sir John Cornforth Proved his worth In 75 In Chemistry And in 1996 One of our top Medics Prof Peter Charles Doherty AC In 2005 Marshall & Warren Described the rabbit warren Of gastritis And Elizabeth Blackburn Recovering from heart-burn Discovered chrosome-telomeres with bursitus Brian P Schmidt Had to admit In 2011 That the Universe was expanding And to leaven thatRichard Robinson Applied that reason- ing to metal-organic framework heaven