What is championship?

"Answer this question and we will have captured the crucial ingredient which lets the human spirit soar."

Professor Allan Snyder FRS
The Inaugural Edwin Flack Lecture
Sydney, 26 June 1998

Allan Snyder received the world's 'foremost prize in communications and information technology', the Marconi International Prize, in New York City.

He has featured as one of Australia's ten most creative minds in Bulletin/Newsweek, which described him as 'agile, playful, audacious, inventive, [he] leaps across boundaries, making unexpected connections'.

His scientific discoveries are the subject of media attention worldwide and the recent BBC documentary 'Fragments of Genius'. He writes for the popular press and appears on radio and television.

He is a graduate of MIT, Harvard and University College London, and was on the faculty of Yale Medical School. He is Director of Centre for the Mind, a daring venture of the University of Sydney.

Currently he is researching championship and ways to enhance creative thinking. Further information may be found at www.centreforthemind.com.