Ludwig Mond Award

Ludwig Mond Award
Awarded forContributions to inorganic chemistry
Sponsored byRoyal Society of Chemistry
Date1981 (1981)
CountryUnited Kingdom (international)
Reward(s)£2000

The Ludwig Mond Award is run annually by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The award is presented for outstanding research in any aspect of inorganic chemistry. The winner receives a monetary prize of £2000, in addition to a medal and a certificate, and completes a UK lecture tour.[1] The winner is chosen by the Dalton Division Awards Committee.

In 2020 the Ludwig Mond Award was merged with the Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry to form the Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry.[2]

Award History

The award was established in 1981 to commemorate the life and work of the chemist Dr Ludwig Mond and followed an endowment from ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries).[1] Mond was born in Kassel, Germany in 1839, and became a noted chemist and industrialist who eventually took British nationality.[3]

Recipients

Source:[4]

  • 1981 (1981): Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson
  • 1983 (1983): F. Gordon A. Stone
  • 1985 (1985): Sir Jack Lewis
  • 1987 (1987): Donald Charlton Bradley
  • 1989 (1989): Duward F. Shriver
  • 1991 (1991): Norman N. Greenwood
  • 1993 (1993): Bernard L. Shaw
  • 1995 (1995): Hubert Schmidbaur
  • 1997 (1997): Peter M. Maitlis
  • 1999 (1999): Kenneth Wade
  • 2001 (2001): Malcolm H. Chisholm
  • 2003 (2003): John Forster Nixon
  • 2005 (2005): Philip P. Power
  • 2007 (2007): David Garner
  • 2008 (2008): Robert H. Crabtree, Yale University
  • 2009 (2009): Christopher Pickett, University of East Anglia
  • 2010 (2010): Dermot O'Hare, University of Oxford
  • 2011 (2011): David Parker, Durham University
  • 2012 (2012): Douglas Stephan, University of Toronto
  • 2013 (2013): Christopher Cummins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 2014 (2014): Gerard Parkin, Columbia University
  • 2015 (2015): Vivian Yam, The University of Hong Kong[5]
  • 2016 (2016): Richard Winpenny, University of Manchester
  • 2017 (2017): Karsten Meyer, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
  • 2018 (2018): Warren Piers, University of Calgary
  • 2019 (2019): Stuart Macgregor, Heriot-Watt University
  • 2020 (2020): Jeffrey Long, University of California, Berkeley

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Royal Society of Chemistry Ludwig Mond Award".
  2. ↑ "Ludwig Mond Award".
  3. ↑ "Mond, Ludwig".
  4. ↑ "Ludwig Mond Award". Royal Society of Chemistry. 10 November 2020. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  5. ↑ "RSC Ludwig Mond Award 2015 Winner". Royal Society of Chemistry. 5 May 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
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