2006 Industrially Sponsored Award Winners
Derek Stevenson CChem FRSC, University of Surrey
Analytical Separation Methods, Whatman International
Awarded "for his research in sample preparation, immunoaffinity extraction, chiral separations and drug bioanalysis".
John Seddon CSci CChem FRSC, Imperial College London
Biomembrane Chemistry
Awarded "for his contributions to our understanding of the physical chemistry of lipids, including outstanding work on biomembrane structure, lipid phase transitions, ionic interactions involving membrane lipids and technological applications of lipids".
Andrei Nikolaev, University of Dundee
carbohydrate Chemistry, Syngenta
Awarded "for his significant contributions to the synthesis of complex carbohydrates of biological importance, enabling the study of their operation in nature".
Michael Ashfold CChem FRSC, University of Bristol
Chemical Dynamics, BP Chemicals
Awarded "for his wide-ranging and penetrating experimental studies of molecular photodissociation, using imaging and translational spectropic methods to expose their dynamics in unique detail ".
Jeremy Hutson CChem FRSC, University of Durham
Computational Chemistry, GlaxoSmithKline
Awarded "for his outstanding contributions to the computational study of inelastic molecular collissions, van der waals molecules and dynamics of molecular collissions at ultralow temperatures".
Alexei Kornyshev, Imperial College London
Electrochemistry (The Geoffrey Barker Medal), Roger Parsons
Awarded "for his pioneering works and outstanding achievements in the application of modern theory of condensed matter to electrochemical systems".
Ian Norton CChem FRSC, University of Birmingham
Food Chemistry, Unilever R&D Colworth
Awarded "for his research on how colloid science and chemical engineering can lead to innovations in food science and technology".
Andrew Abbott CChem MRSC, University of Leicester
Green Chemistry, Rohm and Haas
Awarded "for his fundamental studies and industrial application of iconic liquids based on chlorine chloride in areas such as electrodeposition, electropolishing and ore processing ".
David Knight CChem FRSC, Cardiff University
Hetrocyclic Chemistry, Pfizer Global Research and Development
Awarded "for his development of new methods for the synthesis of reduced N- and O- containing heterocycles, adn their application in natural product synthesis".
Steven Nolan, University of New Orleans, USA
Homogeneous Catalysis, Johnson Matthey Catalysts
Awarded "for his major contribution towards the exploration of fundamental principles and understanding, as well as in the advancement of applications in the catalysis of important reactions".
Peter Derrick CChem FRSC, Massey University, New Zealand
Mass Spectrometry, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Awarded "for his research on both fundamental and applied aspects of mass spectrometry, including applications in biochemistry and medicine".
Thomas Simpson CChem FRSC, University of Bristol
Natural Products chemistry, Vernalis
Awarded "for his wide-ranging contributions to the study of natural products, covering isolation and structure elucidation, biosynthesis and synthesis".
Tom Brown CChem FRSC, University of Southampton
Nucleic Acids Chemistry, Transgenomic Bioconsumables Ltd
Awarded "for his outstanding fundamental research on the structure and function of nucleic acids and your high impact work on the applications of nucleic acid analogues to genetic analysis, diagnostics and therapeutics".
Nicholas Long CChem MRSC, Imperial College London
Organometallic Chemistry, Davy Process Technology
Awarded "for his innovative and substantial contribution to the field of ferrocene chemistry, related compounds and derivatives, and in applications".
John Blacker, Avecia, Huddersfield
Process Technology, Scientific Update
Awarded "for his discovery of patentable technology for the prochiral reduction of ketones and imines using homogeneous catalysis, leading to products with very high enantioselectivity".
Peter Battle, University of Oxford
Solid State Chemistry, Johnson Matthey plc, Materials Chemistry Division
Awarded "for his wide-ranging contributions to the synthesis and characterisation of complex functional oxides".
Harry Anderson FRSC, University of Oxford
Supramolecular Chemistry
Awarded "for his study of synthetic routes to new supramolecular structures and the design of new structural classes with specific properties".
Richard Lambert FRSC, University of Cambridge
Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Unilever R&D Colworth
Awarded "for his outstanding achievements in advancing the understanding of catalysis using surface science methodology".
