Joseph Black Award

The Joseph Black Award is for a young scientist in any field covering the practice and teaching of analytical science.

Sponsored by the Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund.

Rules and Criteria

• Run annually
• Candidates are NOT permitted to nominate themselves
• Candidates will ordinarily be eligible up to the tenth anniversary of the award of their PhD degree, and assessment will be based on work published during that time (Candidates without a PhD must be 35 or below on the closing date.)  Appropriate consideration will be given to those who have taken career breaks or followed different study paths.
• Name and contact details of two referees required should be provided by the nominator.  After the RSC office has acknowledged receipt of the nomination, the nominator is responsible for informing two referees that they must provide reports by 31 January. RSC will contact nominators and referees of candidates with outstanding references one week after close of nominations on 15 January once only. Referees may not include the candidate's post-doc or PhD supervisor 
• One page CV for the candidate which should include their date of birth, website URL, summary of education and career, a list of 5 relevant publications, total numbers of publications and patents
• A one page supporting statement addressing the selection criteria, which can be viewed through the link on this page
• Nominations open on 1 September 2011
• Nominations close on 15 January 2012
• Prize winner will be chosen by the RSC Analytical Division Awards Committee 
• Previous winners of the SAC silver medal are not eligible for this award
• Award winner receives £2000, a medal and a certificate 
• The winner will be required to present his/her work at the annual Analytical Research Forum Meeting of the Analytical Division      

About the award

The Joseph Black Award was established in 2008. 

Sponsor

We would like to thank the Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund for their generous support of this award.