Eureka Prize Renowned Curtin University of Technology physicist and scholar Emeritus Distinguished Professor John De Laeter has won a highly prestigious Australian Government Eureka Prize.Emeritus Professor De Laeter and University of Western Australia Professor of Physics David Blair jointly won the $10,000 Australian Government Eureka Prize for Promoting the Understanding of Science. They were awarded the prize for their involvement in a science education centre the-Gravity Discovery Centre-in virgin bush near Gingin, Western Australia.