Skinner Prize for the Best Poster Presentation
Professor Henry Alistair Skinner, known to his colleagues and students as Hank, was one of the UK's most distinguished thermochemists.
After studying at Lincoln College, Oxford, Skinner was appointed to the staff of the Chemistry Department at Manchester University in 1944, where he remained for 38 years.
Throughout his life, Skinner published about 200 papers and edited several books on the subject of thermochemistry; he was also a founding editor of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics. Skinner received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Lisbon and Oporto in Portugal, and a number of prestigious medals including the Royal Society of Chemistry medal for thermodynamics.
In 1997 Professor H A Skinner, formerly at the University of Manchester, left £5,000 to The Royal Society of Chemistry to be used by the Faraday Division. A Skinner Prize has been established for ten years (from 1997) for students attending a Faraday Discussion meeting.
Rules for the award are as follows and are for use by the Organising Committee:
Candidates must be in membership of the Society at the time the award is made.
One Skinner Prize will be available for each Faraday Discussion meeting.
The award will be made for the best poster presented at the Discussion meeting. Multiple authorship is permitted.
A unanimous decision will be taken at the Discussion meeting by the members of the Organising Committee and their decision is final.
Details of the award winner(s) will be announced at the Discussion meeting.
A certificate and cheque will be sent to the award winner(s) after the Discussion meeting.
| Year | Winner | Institution | Discussion |
| 2004 | K M Knight | University College London, UK | 129 |
| 2004 | L Ruiz-Pérez | University of Sheffield, UK | 128 |
| 2004 | M G D Nix | University of Bristol, UK | 127 |
| 2003 | B Bird E Pickwell | University of Nottingham, UK Cambridge University, UK | 126 (Joint Winners) |
| 2003 | N Taub | Tel-Aviv University, Israel | 125 |
| 2003 | J-L Carreon-Macedo | University of Bristol, UK | 124 |
| 2002 | P M Reis | University of Manchester, UK | 123 |
| 2002 | P M Salen | University of Stockholm, Sweden | 122 |
| 2002 | J-P Gueneau de Mussy | Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium | 121 |
| 2001 | H B Varela | Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany | 120 |
| 2001 | P W Barnes | University of Birmingham, UK | 119 |
| 2001 | M V Patel | University of California, Berkeley, USA | 118 |
| 2000 | M C Graham P A Sloan | University of Bath, UK University of Birmingham, UK | 117 (Joint Winners) |
| 2000 | A H Hansen | Technical University of Denmark | 116 |
| 2000 | G A Garcia S Ulrich | University of Nottingham, UK University of York, UK | 115 (Joint Winners) |
| 1999 | P J Stone | University of Reading, UK | 114 |
| 1999 | O Monti | University of Oxford, UK | 113 |
| 1999 | W Song | University of Cambridge, UK | 112 |
| 1998 | E Q Morales J T Wescott | CSIS, Seville, Spain University of Bristol, UK | 111 (Joint Winners) |
| 1998 | G Böndgen | Freie University, Berlin, Germany | 110 |
| 1998 | A Speck A Markwick | Manchester, UK | 109 (Joint Winners) |
| 1997 | F Vigliotti | Institut de Physique, Experimental University Lausanne | 108 |
