Category: Awards
IUPAC Announces Winners of the 2011 IUPAC Prizes for Young Chemists
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) today announced the winners of the 2011 IUPAC Prizes for Young Chemists awarded for the best PhD theses in the chemical sciences as described in 1000-word essays. The six Winners are:
- Rubén Costa Riquelme, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
- William Donald, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Matthew Macauley, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
- Bozhi Tian, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Sheng Xu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Chengqi Yi, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
The Winners will each receive a cash prize of USD 1000 and travel expenses to the 43rd IUPAC Congress, 30 July – 7 August 2011, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Each prizewinner will also be invited to present a poster at the IUPAC Congress describing his award winning work and to submit a short critical review on aspects of his research topic to be published in Pure and Applied Chemistry. The awards will be presented to the winners of the 2010 and 2011 prizes during the Opening Ceremony of the Congress.
The essays describing the 2011 Winners' theses may be found on the IUPAC web site and cover a wide range of subject matter:
- Dr. Costa Riquelme: Theoretical and Experimental Study of Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells Based on Ionic Transition-Metal Complexes: From the Molecule to the Device
- Dr. Donald: Ion Nanocalorimetry: Measuring Absolute Reduction Potentials and Investigating Effects of Water on Electron Solvation and Ion Fluorescence
- Dr. Macauley: Insight into O-GlcNAc Protein Modification Using Chemical and Biochemical Tools
- Dr. Tian: Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Nanowire Structures for Photovoltaics and Intracellular Probes
- Dr. Xu: Oxide Nanowire Arrays for Energy Sciences
- Dr. Yi: Probing the AlkB Family DNA/RNA Repair Enzymes with a Chemical Disulphide Cross-Linking Approach
There were 47 applications from 19 different countries. The Prize Selection Committee comprised members of the IUPAC Bureau with a wide range of expertise in chemistry. The committee was chaired by Prof. Jung-Il Jin, IUPAC Past President.
In view of the many high-quality applications, the Committee also decided to give three Honorable Mention Awards to:
- Changle Chen, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Lei Fang, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
- Bo Shen, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
The recipients of Honorable Mention Awards will receive a cash prize of USD 100 and a copy ofQuantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry, the IUPAC Green Book.
Applications for the 2012 Prizes are now being solicited, as described on the IUPAC web site <www.iupac.org>.
IUPAC was formed in 1919 by chemists from industry and academia. For almost nine decades, the Union has succeeded in fostering worldwide communications in the chemical sciences and in uniting academic, industrial and public sector chemistry in a common language. IUPAC is recognized as the world authority on chemical nomenclature, terminology, standardized methods for measurement, atomic weights and many other critically evaluated data. In more recent years, IUPAC has been pro-active in establishing a wide range of conferences and projects designed to promote and stimulate modern developments in chemistry, and also to assist in aspects of chemical education and the public understanding of chemistry.
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