Peter Day Award

The Peter Day Award is for outstanding contributions to, and advancement of, the field of Materials Chemistry.  The award will alternate between those specialising in the broad areas of soft matter and of continuous lattice solids.

This year nominations are sought for those working in the area of soft matter.

Rules and Criteria

• Run annually
• Open to UK-based scientists only
• Candidates are permitted to nominate themselves
• Candidates must be mid-career, i.e. aged 55 or under.  The age specified is intended to guide nominators and selection panelists; appropriate consideration will be given to those who have taken career breaks or followed different study paths.
• Candidates' work must specialise in the broad area of soft matter/extended solids
• 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
• Nominations open 1 September 2009 
• Nominations close 31 January 2010 
• Award winner will be chosen by the Materials Chemistry Division Awards Committee
• Award winner receives £2000, a medal and a certificate    

About the award

The RSC Peter Day Award (previously advertised as the Materials Chemistry Forum Mid-Career Award) was established in 2008.

This award recognises the contributions to Chemistry made by Peter Day. Obtaining his degree from Oxford, he remained there to carry out his doctoral research on inorganic mixed valence compounds and his seminal publication first systematised and rationalised the properties of this important class of materials.

He was one of the first protagonists of the new discipline of materials chemistry whose cause he championed in the Royal Society of Chemistry. His research centres around synthesising and characterising mainly molecular inorganic and metal-organic solids in a search for unusual magnetic and electron transport properties.

Peter Day has also served on many Royal Society and UK Research Council committees, the British Council Science Advisory Committee and the European Science Foundation.