King Honours Australians for Breakthrough Invention

King Honours Australians for Breakthrough Invention
LONDON, ENGLAND - OCT. 12: King Charles III talks to guests as he presents the 2022 and 2023 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering during a reception at Buckingham Palace on Oct. 12, 2023 in London, England. Photo by Yui Mok - Pool/Getty Images
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Four Australian scientists have been awarded the world’s most prestigious engineering prize from King Charles III for their pioneering research into renewable technologies.

Professors Martin Green and Andrew Blakers, alongside Jianhua Zhao and Aihua Wang, invented groundbreaking solar cell technology that has helped reduce the cost of solar panels by 80 percent in the last decade, earning them the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.