Sir George Stokes Award

The Sir George Stokes Award (colloquially the Stokes Medal) is named after George Gabriel Stokes and is awarded by the Analytical Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry, biennially. It was established in 1999 to recognize the multidisciplinary nature of analytical chemistry^[1] and is given:

For outstanding and sustained contributions to analytical science by someone working in a complementary field, which has led to developments of seminal importance to chemical analysis.

There is no restriction on the nationality of those who can be considered for the award.

Winners

Recipients include:^[2]

• 1999 (1999) – Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys
• 2001 (2001) – Karl H. Norris
• 2003 (2003) – No award
• 2005 (2005) – Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas
• 2007 (2007) – Professor Kenneth Suslick
• 2009 (2009) – Robin Clark^[3]
• 2011 (2011) – Richard Compton^[4]
• 2013 (2013) – Professor Richard P. Van Duyne^[5]

References

1. ↑ Sir George Stokes Medal Rules, RSC, retrieved September 21, 2008
2. ↑ Sir George Stokes Medal Winners, RSC, retrieved September 21, 2008.
3. ↑ "2009 winner of the RSC Sir George Stokes Award - Robin Clark". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 9 October 2014. 
4. ↑ "Sir George Stokes Award 2011 Winner". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 9 October 2014. 
5. ↑ "Sir George Stokes Award 2013 Winner". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 9 October 2014. 

External links

• Event data as RDF