Ludwig Mond Award

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.

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.^[2]

Awardees

Recipients include:^[3]

• 1981 – Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson
• 1983 – F G A Stone
• 1985 – Sir Jack Lewis
• 1987 – D C Bradley
• 1989 – D F Shriver
• 1991 – N N Greenwood
• 1993 – B L Shaw
• 1995 – H Schmidbaur
• 1997 – P M Maitlis
• 1999 – K Wade
• 2001 – M H Chisholm
• 2003 – J F Nixon
• 2005 – P P Power
• 2007 – C D Garner
• 2008 – Robert H. Crabtree, Yale University
• 2009 – Christopher Pickett, University of East Anglia
• 2010 – Dermot O'Hare, University of Oxford
• 2011 – David Parker, Durham University
• 2012 – Professor Douglas Stephan, University of Toronto
• 2013 – Professor Christopher Cummins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 2014 – Professor Gerard Parkin, Columbia University
• 2015 – Professor Vivian Yam, The University of Hong Kong^[4]

References

1. "Royal Society of Chemistry Ludwig Mond Award".
2. "Mond, Ludwig".
3. "Ludwig Mond Award Previous Winners". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
4. "RSC Ludwig Mond Award 2015 Winner". Royal Society of Chemistry. 5 May 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2015.