Sir Eric Rideal Lecture
Recognising scientists for their significant and sustained contribution to the field of the colloid, interface and surface science community.
Details
| Status | Closed |
|---|---|
| Nominator eligibility | Interest group members |
| Nominee location | UK and Ireland |
| Career stage | Established career |
Awarded by the Colloid and Interface Science Group
The group supports and promotes colloid and interface science, which is an important area of knowledge which underpins a very wide variety of both fundamental and applied science. In recent years, to present a more coherent front for colloid science, particularly in the UK, the group works closely with its sister group in the SCI, and all meetings of either group are now co-sponsored.
Winners
2024: Prof Anthony Ryan, University of Sheffield
2023: Dr Andrew Howe, AQDOT Limited
2022: Prof Bernard Binks, University of Hull
2021: Prof Steve Armes, The University of Sheffield
2020: Prof Colin Bain, Durham University
2019: Prof Peter Lovell, University of Manchester
2018: No award
2017: Prof Daan Frenkel, University of Cambridge
2016: No award
2015: Prof Paul Luckham, Imperial College, London
2014: Prof Athene Donald, University of Cambridge
2013: Prof Jeff Penfold, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
2012: Prof Geoff Maitland, Imperial College
2011: Dr Robert Thomas, University of Oxford
2010: Prof Thomas W Healy, University of Melbourne
2009: Prof Richard Buscall, MSACT Research & Consulting
2008: Prof Julian Eastoe, Bristol University
2007: Alan Pitt, Kodak
2006: Prof Eric Dickinson, University of Leeds
2005: Dr James Goodwin, Bristol University
2004: Prof Terence Cosgrove, Bristol University
2003: Prof Brian H Robinson, East Anglia University
2002: Prof Helmut Möhwald, Max Planck Institute, Berlin
2001: Prof J Pethica, Oxford University
2000: Prof D Tildesley, Unilever PSL
About this prize
The Sir Eric Rideal Lecture is a late-career or “life-time achievement award”, which recognises and honours an individual who has made a sustained and distinguished contribution to colloid and interface science in the UK. Prior to its establishment by the Joint Colloids Group in 2006, it was known as the Founder’s Lecturer.
Authority in Colloid, Surface and Interface Science with a professional career of more than 30 years’ duration (after completion of postgraduate study).
Candidates need not be UK-based necessarily, but they will have had sustained and significant connections with the UK colloid, interface and surface science community and a marked impact upon work in the UK.
Sir Eric Rideal was one of the founders of catalysis and gave his name to the Eley Rideal mechanism. He is known for his work at the Colloid Science Laboratory, which he set up in Cambridge University in the 1930s. Read a full history of the RSC/SCI joint colloid group medals and the names behind them.