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ews & Achievements

A selection of recent highlights.
More news can be found at www.chem.ox.ac.uk

A blue plaque has been unveiled in honour
of Oxford Chemistry alumna and Nobel
Laureate Dorothy Hodgkin at her former
family home, 94 Woodstock Road, Oxford.
It was here that the Nobel telegram arrived
in October 1964.
We were delighted to receive a Silver Athena SWAN Award in
recognition of our work to improve the gender balance of students
and employees, and to improve the support and development
available to all.
Work is underway on new undergraduate teaching labs. Professor Stuart Conway has been awarded the 2016 Lectureship
Find out more on pages 16 and 17 and learn how you can support by the Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Sector of the Royal
the project and dedicate a crucial part of the new laboratory. Society of Chemistry. The BMCS aims to further the interests of
all members of the RSC involved in the pursuit and understanding
Professor David Clary has been knighted for services to
international science. Sir David, President of Magdalen College of biologically active molecules and its lectureship is awarded to
since 2005, served as the first Chief Scientific Adviser to the someone who has made a significant advance in the subject through
Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2009 to 2013. He leads a developing new products or methods.
research group studying the theory and computer simulation on the Two Rushlight Clean Energy Awards were won by Oxford
reactions, energy transfer and dynamics of polyatomic molecules. Advanced Surfaces, a Chemistry spin-out commercialising
The author of over 300 papers in theoretical chemistry, Sir David is research developed by Professor Mark Moloney. Rushlight
also Editor of Chemical Physics Letters and a Reviewing Editor of promotes the development and deployment of clean technologies
Science. and sustainable energy solutions. Oxford Advanced Surfaces
develops technology that aids the production of lighter weight
Professor Bill David has been elected to the Fellowship of the vehicles, a crucial step towards lower CO emissions.
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Royal Society. Bill’s research is in energy materials chemistry and We welcome Professor Charlotte Williams. Charlotte has joined
the atomic, molecular and nano-structure of materials. He has made Oxford Chemistry from Imperial College London, where she led
significant contributions to the development of neutron and X-ray a highly successful multidisciplinary research group in polymer
powder diffraction and is currently investigating materials that chemistry.
facilitate the use of ammonia as an energy vector.
More new spin-out companies have been launched this year by
Six Oxford professors received prestigious Royal Society of Oxford chemists. Read about Oxford Impedance Diagnostics,
Chemistry awards and prizes. The Tilden Prize was awarded to Oxford Mass Technologies, OXACs and OxStem on page 11.
Veronique Gouveneur and Dermot O’Hare, the Harrison-Meldola A symposium was held in May in
Memorial Prize to Susan Perkin, the Interdisciplinary Prize to celebration of Professor Malcolm
Peter Hore, the Liversidge award to Peter Bruce, and the Frankland Green’s 80th Birthday. Malcolm was
Award to Andrew Weller.
presented with a copy of a collection
Professor Tom Brown won the BBSRC’s Innovator of the Year of his articles published by the Royal
competition for his high impact serial entrepreneurship in DNA Society of Chemistry, highlighting
chemistry and outstanding commitment to innovation. Research his vast contribution to Inorganic
in the Brown Group is interdisciplinary, focusing on nucleic acid Chemistry over the last 50 years.
chemistry and its applications in other fields including DNA
diagnostics, forensic science and nanotechnology.

We are delighted to be working in partnership with Elsevier and gratefully acknowledge their sponsorship
contribution to this magazine. Thank you also to Oxford University Press for their generous gift-in-kind towards the
cost of printing.

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