Corday-Morgan medal
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The Corday–Morgan Medal and Prize is a prestigious award that has been made annually by the Royal Society of Chemistry
since 1949 for the most meritorious contributions to experimental chemistry, including computer simulation. The number of awards was increased to two per year in 1964 and to three per year in 1967.
The Corday–Morgan medallists have included many of the UK's most successful chemists. Since 1949 they have been:
Royal Society of Chemistry
The Royal Society of Chemistry is a learned society in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemical sciences." It was formed in 1980 from the merger of the Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry, the Faraday Society and the Society for Analytical Chemistry with a new...
since 1949 for the most meritorious contributions to experimental chemistry, including computer simulation. The number of awards was increased to two per year in 1964 and to three per year in 1967.
The Corday–Morgan medallists have included many of the UK's most successful chemists. Since 1949 they have been:
- 1949 – Derek Barton;
- 1950 – Ronald Sydney NyholmRonald Sydney NyholmSir Ronald Sydney Nyholm was an Australian chemist, born on 29 January 1917 at Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, as the fourth in a family of six children. Broken Hill is a mining town whose streets are named after minerals, a fit place for to sire an inorganic chemist. Beryl-and-Sulphide...
; - 1951 – Frederick SangerFrederick SangerFrederick Sanger, OM, CH, CBE, FRS is an English biochemist and a two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry, the only person to have been so. In 1958 he was awarded a Nobel prize in chemistry "for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin"...
; - 1952 – James Baddiley;
- 1953 – John CornforthJohn CornforthSir John Warcup 'Kappa' Cornforth, AC, CBE, FRS , is an Australian scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions....
; - 1954 – Rex Richards;
- 1955 – George PorterGeorge PorterGeorge Hornidge Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, OM, FRS was a British chemist.- Life :Porter was born in Stainforth, near Thorne, South Yorkshire. He was educated at Thorne Grammar School, then won a scholarship to the University of Leeds and gained his first degree in chemistry...
; - 1956 – K W Bagnall;
- 1957 – G W Kenner;
- 1958 – C Kemball;
- 1959 – Alan Battersby;
- 1960 – R N Haszeldine;
- 1961 – Franz SondheimerFranz Sondheimer-Early life:Sondheimer was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1926 and, following the rise of the Nazis, fled to the United Kingdom in 1937.-Education:He was a pupil at Highgate School and subsequently studied chemistry, receiving his degree from Imperial College London.-Career:From 1949 to 1952,...
; - 1962 – Neil Bartlett;
- 1963 – G Sim;
- 1964 – H M Frey, A I Scott;
- 1965 – John CadoganJohn CadoganProfessor Sir John Ivan George Cadogan CBE DSc FRSE FRSC PLSW FRS is a British scientist, whose speciality is in organic chemistry.Sir John was born in Pembrey, Carmarthenshire...
, R Mason; - 1966 – Richard DixonRichard Dixon (scientist)Richard Newland Dixon FRS is a British chemist noted for his work in the field of thermal or optical properties of matter....
, Malcolm Tobe; - 1967 – Alan CarringtonAlan CarringtonAlan Carrington CBE, FRS is a British chemist. He was educated at the University of Southampton where he was awarded the degrees of B. Sc. and Ph. D. He was a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge from 1959 to 1967. From 1967 to 1984 and from 1987 to 1999, he was Professor of Chemistry at the...
, R. O. C. Norman, John Meurig ThomasJohn Meurig ThomasSir John Meurig Thomas FRS is a leading British chemist and educator primarily known for his work on heterogeneous catalysis, solid-state chemistry, and surface and materials science. He has authored over one thousand scientific articles and several books, including Principles and Practice of...
; - 1968 – A Fish, F McCapra, D H Williams;
- 1969 – Peter Day, M Green, G W Kirby;
- 1970 – David Buckingham, D W Cameron, N B H Jonathan;
- 1971 – M J Perkins, L F Phillips, P L Timms;
- 1972 – Malcolm GreenMalcolm Green (chemist)Malcolm Green also known as M. L. H. Green is a British Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry.Born in Eastleigh, Hampshire, he received his BSc degree from Acton Technical College in 1956 and his PhD from Imperial College of Science and Technology in 1959 under the supervision of Professor...
, David Husain, P G Sammes; - 1973 – Jack Baldwin, Geoffrey Luckhurst, J F Nixon;
- 1974 – L. D. Hall, Brian F. G. JohnsonBrian F. G. JohnsonBrian Frederick Gilbert Johnson is a British scientist and former professor of chemistry at Cambridge University. He was also a Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge from 1999 to 2005....
, A McKillop; - 1975 – Robert J Donovan, J A Osborn, G Pattenden;
- 1976 – M R Churchill, Roger Grice, K M Smith;
- 1977 – Laurence Barron, B T Golding, J S Ogden;
- 1978 – P D Magnus, D M P Mingos, G M Sheldrick;
- 1979 – M H Chisholm, G A Kenney-Wallace, S M Roberts;
- 1980 – Gus Hancock, Selby A. R. Knox, Steven V. LeySteven V. LeySteven Victor Ley FRS is the BP Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, and is a Fellow of Trinity College. He was President of the Royal Society of Chemistry and was made a CBE in January 2002...
; - 1981 – Christopher M. Dobson, Brian J. Howard, D A Jefferson;
- 1982 – Anthony K. Cheetham, R H Crabtree, T J Simpson;
- 1983 – David J. Cole-Hamilton, W Jones, W B Motherwell;
- 1984 – N J Cooper, S G Davies, A Harriman;
- 1985 – W Clegg, Peter P Edwards, C J Moody;
- 1986 – A G M Barrett, G Christou, Paul R Raithby;
- 1987 – J M Newsam, A Guy Orpen, David ParkerDavid ParkerDavid Parker may refer to:* David Parker , current manager of Birmingham City Ladies* David C. Parker, theology professor and textual critic* David Parker , North Carolina politician and attorney...
; - 1988 – F G N Cloke, Gareth A. Morris, P J Sarre, S G Withers;
- 1989 – Michael N R Ashfold, David ClaryDavid ClaryDavid Clary, FRS is a British theoretical chemist. He has been President of Magdalen College, Oxford since 2005.-Life:He attended Colchester Royal Grammar School from 1964–71. He has a BSc from the University of Sussex and a PhD and ScD from the University of Cambridge, where he was at Corpus...
, M Schroder; - 1990 – D Crich, Patrick W. Fowler, I P Rothwell;
- 1991 – David Gani, Jeremy M. Hutson, S Mann;
- 1992 – P D Beer, T C Gallagher, D E Logan;
- 1993/94 – Vernon C. GibsonVernon C. Gibson-Early life:He was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, the son of Dennis and Pamela Gibson. He attended the King’s School in Grantham , then studied at Sheffield where he graduated in 1980. After gaining a D.Phil...
, N S Simpkins, Timothy P. Softley; - 1995 – A R Barron, Jeremy G Frey, G F R Parkin;
- 1996 – D W Bruce, M J Hampden-Smith, N J Turner;
- 1997 – I Manners, D. E. Manolopoulos, D M O'Hare;
- 1998 – V K Aggarwal, J P Attfield, D Craig;
- 1999 – Kenneth D M Harris, C A Hunter, M D Ward;
- 2000 – Colin D. Bain, M J Rosseinsky, J M J Williams;
- 2001 – H L Anderson, G J Davies, S M Howdle, P R Unwin;
- 2002 – A Armstrong, S Balasubramanian, R E Morris, S P Price;
- 2003 – Jonathan ClaydenJonathan ClaydenJonathan Clayden is an organic chemist.In 1992 he obtained his PhD at the University of Cambridge working with Stuart Warren on asymmetric synthesis using phosphine oxide chemistry...
, M W George, G C Lloyd-Jones; - 2004 – Stuart C Althorpe, D W C MacMillan, J H Naismith;
- 2005 – Benjamin G Davis, Helen H. Fielding, Philip A. Gale
- 2006 – Neil R Champness,Timothy J Donohoe, Jeremy N Harvey
- 2008 – Stephen Faulkner, Adam Nelson, David Tozer
- 2009 – Andrew de Mello, Duncan Graham, Andrew Cooper
- 2010 - E Brechin, J Chin, J Steed
- 2011 - Michaele Hardie, Fred Manby, Jonathan Nitschk