Feature Guest - Bryan Gaensler

Astronomer Bryan Gaensler's 1994 honours thesis received a perfect score of 100. His doctoral research won him a NASA Hubble Fellowship at MIT in Boston. In 1999 he was named Young Australian of the Year. In 2002, aged 28, he became a professor at Harvard University. NSW last year named him Physical Scientist of the Year, and this year he received an Australian Laureate Fellowship. He has just published his first book 'Extreme Cosmos' - on the way the universe works.