re: #482 LudwigVanQuixote

Yes, this is your fringe element scientist…

Dr. Pilmer

Member, Advisory Council for the New South Wales Minister for Primary Industries
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
Eureka Prize (2002), for A Short History of Planet Earth
Eureka Prize (1995), for promotion of science
The Michael Daley Prize for the Promotion of Science (now a Eureka Prize), (1994), for communication of science
Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Fellow of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists
Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society, London
Clarke Medal, 2004
Centenary Medal, 2003
Rio Tinto Award for Mining Excellence, 2005
Sir Willis Connelly Medal, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2006
Leopold von Buch Plakette of the German Geological Society, 1994

I suppose he picked up all these positions in a cereal box prize.