Category: Awards
IUPAC Announces Winners of the 2012 IUPAC Prizes for Young Chemists
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) today announced the winners of the 2012 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:
- Khalid Albahily, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Tzahi Cohen-Karni, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Alexander Spokoyny, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
- Judy I-Chia Wu, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
- Lei Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Charles Yeung, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Winners will each receive a cash prize of USD 1000 and travel expenses to the 44th IUPAC World Chemistry Congress, 9-15 August 2013, in Istanbul, Turkey. Each prizewinner will also be invited to present a poster at the IUPAC Congress describing his/her award-winning work and to submit a short critical review on aspects of his/her research topic to be published in Pure and Applied Chemistry. The awards will be presented to the winners of the 2012 and 2013 prizes during the Opening Ceremony of the Congress.
The essays describing the 2012 Winners’ theses may be found on the IUPAC web site and cover a wide range of subject matter:
Dr. Albahily: Study of the Factors Affecting the Selectivity of Catalytic Ethylene Oligomerization
Dr. Cohen-Karni: Nanowire Nanoelectronics: Building Interfaces with Tissue and Cells at the Natural Scale of Biology
Dr. Spokoyny: Synthetic Investigations Featuring Boron-Rich and Multidentate Chalcoether-Containing Ligands
Dr. Wu: Quantification of Virtual Chemical Properties: Strain, Hyperconjugation, Conjugation, and Aromaticity
Dr. Yang: New Materials for Intermediate-Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells to be Powered by Carbon- and Sulfur-Containing Fuels
Dr. Yeung: Transition Metal Catalysis: Activation of CO2, C–H, and C–O Bonds En Route to Carboxylic Acids, Biaryls, and N-Containing Heterocycles
There were 41 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. Nicole Moreau, IUPAC Past President. In view of the many high-quality applications, the Committee also decided to give five Honorable Mention Awards to:
Hua Lu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
Stephen Morin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
David Scanlon, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Joerg Schrittwieser, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
- Sihai Yang, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
The recipients of Honorable Mention Awards will receive a cash prize of USD 100 and a copy of Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry, the IUPAC Green Book.
Applications for the 2013 Prizes are now being solicited, as described on the IUPAC web site <www.iupac.org> under the News tab on the home page.
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