Ludwig Mond Award
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The Ludwig Mond Award is run annually by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The award is presented for outstanding research in any aspect of inorganic chemistry. The winner receives a monetary prize of £2000, in addition to a medal and a certificate, and completes a UK lecture tour.[1] The winner is chosen by the Dalton Division Awards Committee.
Award History
The award was established in 1981 to commemorate the life and work of the chemist Dr Ludwig Mond and followed an endowment from ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries).[1] Mond was born in Kassel, Germany in 1839, and became a noted chemist and industrialist who eventually took British nationality.[2]
Awardees
Recipients include:[3]
- 1981Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson :
- 1983F G A Stone :
- 1985Sir Jack Lewis :
- 1987D C Bradley :
- 1989D F Shriver :
- 1991N N Greenwood :
- 1993B L Shaw :
- 1995H Schmidbaur :
- 1997P M Maitlis :
- 1999K Wade :
- 2001M H Chisholm :
- 2003J F Nixon :
- 2005P P Power :
- 2007C D Garner :
- 2008Robert H. Crabtree, Yale University :
- 2009Christopher Pickett, University of East Anglia :
- 2010Dermot O'Hare, University of Oxford :
- 2011David Parker, Durham University :
- 2012Professor Douglas Stephan, University of Toronto :
- 2013Professor Christopher Cummins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology :
- 2014Professor Gerard Parkin, Columbia University :
- 2015Professor Vivian Yam, The University of Hong Kong : [4]