The award is in honour of Australian businessman Sir Peter Abeles . The marriage of Barbara and Harold Abeles later ended in divorce. His father Lazar Abeles was a merchant. She and Peter Abeles adopted two daughters. He had a sister, Marianne Abeles (1884-1915). Sigmund Abeles (born 1934) is an American figurative artist and art educator. Ansett Airlines had been taken over by Peter Abeles and Rupert Murdoch in late 1979. Abeles advocating a maglev link via Wollongong. Recipients of the Guggenheim Fellowships have included Kim Victoria Abeles, Judy Baca, and Sabina Magliocco. Australian trucking magnate Peter Abeles was also connected with the bank. In 1967 it merged with Alltrans to form TNT-Alltrans with Peter Abeles becoming managing director. Later in 1984 Peter Abeles, chairman of TNT, expressed interest in Dr Wild's proposal. In late 1979, Abeles and Rupert Murdoch launched a successful takeover of Ansett Transport Industries. Sigmund Abeles who is a painter, etcher and works on a war-themed etching. Born in Vienna in 1925, Abeles lived in Czechoslovakia from 1934.