On the day astrophysicist Matthew Bailes was born in Alice Springs Hospital in 1963, the discovery of the first quasar – a quasi-stellar object of unthinkable luminosity over one billion light years away – was made public.
On Tuesday evening, Professor Bailes was named the winner of the 2024 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. But that trajectory from Alice Springs to world-renowned astrophysicist would possibly not have happened if it had not been for an early taste of rejection.
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