The prizes recognise, reward and encourage researchers working in the respective fields of optoelectronics and nutrition.
The Rank Prize Funds also recognise, support and foster excellence among young and emerging researchers in the two fields of nutrition and optoelectronics.
[1] The Funds aim to advance and promote education and learning for public benefit.
[2] The Committee on Optoelectronics consists of the following people:[4] Past winners include:[3] The Rank Prize for Nutrition is for research in human and animal nutrition (distinct from animal husbandry), and crop husbandry.
[11] In 2014 Australian biophysicist Graham Farquhar and the CSIRO agronomist Richard Richards were awarded the Rank Prize in Nutrition, for "pioneering the understanding of isotope discrimination in plants and its application to breed wheat varieties that use water more efficiently", which related to a discovery the pair made in the 1980s.