Polanyi Medal

The Polanyi Medal is a biennial award of the Royal Society of Chemistry for outstanding contributions to the field of gas kinetics. The medal is presented at the International Symposium on Gas Kinetics after a plenary lecture given by the prize winner.

The award is named after the Hungarian-British polymath Michael Polanyi, 1891-1976, whose research helped to establish the topic of gas kinetics and reaction dynamics. His son, John Polanyi, received the Polanyi Medal in 1988.[1]

Winners

Source:[2]

2024 Timothy J. Wallington
2022 Frédérique Battin-Leclerc[3]
2020 Stephen Klippenstein[4]
2018 Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts
2016 James Anderson
2014 Craig Taatjes
2012 Mario Molina
2010 Stephen Leone
2008 Piero Casavecchia
2006 Horst Hippler
2004 David Clary
2002 Gus Hancock
2000 Jürgen Wolfrum
1998 Akkihebbal Ravishankara
1996 John Simons
1994 Mike Pilling[5]
1992 Jurgen Tröe [sic] [6]
1990 Ian William Murison Smith
1988 John Polanyi
1987 Fred Kaufmann [sic] (awarded posthumously)[7]
1986 Sidney W. Benson
1984 Benton Seymour Rabinovitch
1982 Brian Thrush
1981 Dudley Herschbach
1979 Richard Zare

See also

References

  1. ^ "Gas Kinetics Awards". The Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  2. ^ "25th International Symposium on Gas Kinetics". Sciencesconf.org. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  3. ^ "26th International Symposium on Gas Kinetics and Related Phenomena - Sciencesconf.org". gk2022.sciencesconf.org.
  4. ^ "Argonne chemist receives Royal Society of Chemistry medal". Argonne National Laboratory. 27 November 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  5. ^ Pilling, Michael J.; Robertson, Struan H.; Seakins, Paul W. (1995). "Elementary radical reactions and autoignition". Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions. 91 (23). Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC): 4179. doi:10.1039/ft9959104179. ISSN 0956-5000.
  6. ^ "Curriculum Vitae of Jürgen Troe". The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 110 (9). American Chemical Society (ACS): 2835. 2006. Bibcode:2006JPCA..110.2835.. doi:10.1021/jp068005r. ISSN 1089-5639. PMID 16509602.
  7. ^ Golde, Michael F. (13 September 1919). Biographical Memoirs: V.66 (1995) Chapter: Frederick Kaufman. doi:10.17226/4961. ISBN 978-0-309-05237-5. Retrieved 11 September 2018. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help); |website= ignored (help)