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Public attitudes to chemistry Our research results are in

Prize and award winners 2015 p6 Understanding public perceptions p14 Top of the Bench 2015

The final of this year’s Top of the Bench competition took place on 25 April, once again hosted by the excellent team at Loughborough University. After an exciting day of chemistry the prestigious first place went to King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, representing our Birmingham & West Midlands section. Congratulations to second -placed Queen Elizabeth Boy’s School (from Chilterns & Middlesex), third-placed King Edward VI Grammar School (from our Essex section) and all those who took part this year, from across the UK and beyond. WEBSITE Find all the latest news at www.rsc.org/news/

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6 Celebrating excellence Meet this year’s Prize and Award winners 14 Public attitudes to Public attitudes chemistry to chemistry Our research results are in... The first national,21 in-depth study on how the UK public thinks and feels about chemistry, chemists and chemicals

While there is extensive literature about the public image of science, there’re little data specifically on chemistry. As we work to advance excellence in the chemical sciences for the benefit of science and humanity it’s critically important that we understand and measure people’s interest in and engagement DIARY with chemistry

To unlock new insights we commissioned the social research company TNS BMRB to investigate current public attitudes, awareness, interest and engagement 24 Conferences toward chemistry in the UK. The reports and other material are available at rsc.li/pac Upcoming meetings and deadlines 25 Events Your guide to events by region and section 28 Notices 23 Invitation to our AGM and your awards, prizes and competitions 30 Financial summary © Royal Society of Chemistry 2015 Our financial facts and figures from 2014 Registered charity number 207890 Snapshot A look at the latest news from around the world

INBRIEF All change for science Industry and Technology at Westminster Awards 2015 This month saw the Conservative Party win a astrophysics, and Maggie Throup, the new The Royal College of Physicians played surprise majority in the UK General Election, Conservative MP for Erewash, who previously host to a packed ceremony at our Industry after weeks of opinion polls showing them worked as a biomedical scientist within and Technology Awards 2015 on Monday, neck and neck with the Labour Party. The the NHS. Carol Monaghan (SNP, Glasgow May 11. Six winners were recognised for party won 331 seats compared to Labour’s North West) and Chris Philp (Conservative, their outstanding contributions to the 232, giving them a small 12 seat majority. Croydon South) both have physics degrees, chemical sciences industry – from the and Philippa Whitford (SNP, Ayrshire Central) discovery, development and application The Conservatives’ former coalition partners, previously worked as a consultant breast of new technologies, through to the Liberal Democrats, saw less success at surgeon. improving STEM skills and encouraging the polls. The party lost 49 seats, with only the next generation of chemists. eight Liberal Democrat MPs now remaining Following the election, David Cameron at Westminster. Big names, such as the appointed Jo Johnson MP as the new Our Industry Manager, Steve Pleasance, former Business Secretary Vince Cable, Minister for Universities and Science, opened up proceedings introducing the and the former Climate Secretary Ed Davey, replacing Greg Clark who has now become awards before welcoming broadcasting lost their seats. Secretary of State for Communities and royalty, Sandi Toksvig OBE, to the stage Local Government. Sajid Javid replaces to present the winners with their prizes. The election also saw a number of chemists Vince Cable as Business Secretary, and Sandi returned to the stage following lose their seats. Dr Julian Huppert (Liberal Amber Rudd replaces Ed Davey as Secretary the presentations to do a 20-minute Democrat, Cambridge) and Stephen Moseley of State for Energy and Climate Change. comedy set. (Conservative, City of Chester) both lost their seats to Labour, and Julie Hilling MP Education Secretary Nicky Morgan and More than 130 people from academia (Labour, Bolton West) lost her seat to the Environment Secretary Liz Truss both and industry attended the ceremony and Conservatives. remain in their roles. dinner. There was also a surprise medal awarded on the night for the outgoing A number of new MPs with science Jo Johnson the new Minister for Industry and Technology Division backgrounds were elected. These include Universities and Science (below left) Council president, Dr Jacquin-Wilford Heidi Allen, the new Conservative MP for and Dr Julian Huppert who lost his seat Brown, of AkzoNobel, who led the Cambridgeshire South, who has a degree in (below right). © ROYAL OF CHEMISTRY SOCIETY council for five years. © 2015 JO JOHNSON, MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR ORPINGTON The awards ceremony was part of the Chemistry Means Business 2015 event, which earlier in the day saw EnterprisePlus businesses attend a number of workshops and networking opportunities. EnterprisePlus is our dedicated service for small businesses. For the full list of this year’s awards and prizes winners, see page six.

Dr Charlotte Harvey, see p12 © ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY © ROYAL

4 RSC NEWS JUNE 2015 Prestigious honours for members INBRIEF Snapshot of our community A decade of service The Royal Society have recently announced Our new fellows of the Royal Society of On the evening of 5 May a special their newly elected members of their Edinburgh are: meeting of the RSC Belgium executive A look at the latest news from around the world committee welcomed our chief executive, fellowship, recognising the outstanding • Professor Marcel Jaspars BA PhD Dr Robert Parker to Brussels. Robert was contributions of pioneers across the CChem FRSC FRSE sciences. Among them are eight fellows of in the Belgian capital for a meeting at the • Professor Dr Guy C Lloyd-Jones BSc the Royal Society of Chemistry, including European Parliament and stayed on to talk DPhil FRSC FRS FRSE one of our former presidents (see page 20 to the executive committee and make a for more from David) and one of our recently • Professor Mercedes M Maroto-Valer special presentation to one of its long- appointed honorary fellows. BSc PhD FRSC FRSE term members, Dr Ian Carson. Congratulations to all of those from our • Professor Niamh Nic Daeid MRSC Ian received a Long Service Award, in community who have been recognised FRSE recognition of his ten-year service on – through a process of peer review by • Professor Klaas Wynne MSc PhD the RSC Belgium committee and his the existing fellows of the RS – with this FRSC FRSE tremendous efforts to organise many prestigious honour. significant events for the section. Our new fellows of the Royal Society are: RSC Belgium section chairman, Tim • Professor Ali Alavi FRSC FRS Dame Julia Sligo (below) and Reynolds, said: “It was really pleasing to • Professor Jane Clarke FRSC FRS David Phillips (bottom). see Ian get this long service award from Robert Parker. It was a special occasion. • Professor Andrew Cooper BSc PhD FRSC FRS Ian has done so much for the section in Belgium.” • Professor Benjamin G Davis BA DPhil FRSC FRS © DR IAN CARSON • Professor David Phillips CBE BSc PhD CSci CChem FRSC FRS • Professor Roger A Sheldon PhD CChem FRSC FRS • Professor Dame Julia Slingo DBE HonFRSC FRS • Professor Bryan M Turner FRSC FRS Also announced recently are the new fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, including two of our prize and award winners from Dr Ian Carson (left), receiving his long 2014. service award from Dr Robert Parker (right).

Reminder to vote in the Royal Society of Chemistry elections 2015 Details of contested elections taking place in 2015 are given through our Vacancies and Elections page of the Royal Society of Chemistry website rsc.li/vacancies- elections For those not voting online, the option still exists to vote by post, and voting papers will be sent out accordingly. If you would like further information or assistance on the elections, please get in touch at [email protected] The Royal Society of Chemistry 2015 Elections are open until noon on Monday 8 June and administration of the elections will be carried out by Mi-Voice. The names of the newly elected members will be announced at the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Annual General Meeting on 8 July 2015 and reported later on the website at rsc.li/agm15. © ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY © ROYAL

JUNE 2015 RSC NEWS 5 Prize and award winners 2015 Every year we recognise those who are advancing excellence across the chemical sciences through our prizes and awards programmes.

From researchers to teachers and entrepreneurs; whether at the start of a career in the chemical sciences or having served our community for a number of years, we celebrate and reward those who make a lasting contribution. Our chief executive, Dr Robert Parker, says: “It is always a pleasure to recognise excellence in the chemical sciences and I am pleased to acknowledge the illustrious achievements of our prize and award winners this year. “Whether they work in research, industry or academia, our winners are the very best in their fields, and they can be very proud to follow in the footsteps of some of the most influential and important scientists around the world. “In a complex and changing world, chemistry and the chemical sciences are vital in responding to some of humanity’s biggest challenges and our prize and award winners are at the forefront of meeting that challenge.” One of our new award winners adds: “I am delighted to receive this prestigious award and I do so on behalf of my group, whose talent and dedication have got our research projects off the ground. This recognition will definitely encourage us to keep trying hard to discover new and useful chemistry!” Our prizes and awards have a rich history, with some having been awarded for over 140 years. Find out more about individual prize and award winners at www.rsc.org/awards In celebration of our winners, we have assembled some of the exciting research they have recently published in our journals in a special collection. To read the articles for free for a limited period of time, visit http://rsc.li/rscwinners2015-collection Many winners will also deliver talks at a variety of locations throughout the UK during the next academic year. You can find out when these take place by keeping an eye out for upcoming lectures and symposia at http://rsc.li/award-events

Prizes Centenary Prize Professor Geoff Ozin Professor Chad Mirkin University of Jean-Marie Northwestern Toronto Tarascon University Collège de France

For his development of spherical nucleic For his work in defining, enabling and For outstanding contributions to the acids and new nanotechnology-based tools popularising a chemical approach to development and understanding of new in biomedicine and materials science. nanomaterials for innovative nanotechnology ionic conductors and electrode materials in advanced materials and biomedical for rechargeable lithium ion batteries. science.

6 RSC NEWS JUNE 2014 Corday-Morgan Prize De Gennes Prize Environment Prize Professor Professor Professor Stephen Liddle Mercouri Roy Harrison University of Kanatzidis University of Nottingham Northwestern Birmingham Universityet Marie Curie

For his outstanding contributions to actinide For his development of novel chalcogenide For sustained and significant innovations in chemistry, including significant advances in and related materials that are useful in the application of analytical chemistry to air our understanding of the bonding, reactivity energy conversion and environmental pollution and environmental health. and magnetism in uranium and thorium remediation schemes. compounds in particular. Interdisciplinary Prize Professor Harrison-Meldola Sharon Memorial Prize Professor Ashbrook Elaine Holmes University of Dr David Imperial College St Andrews Scanlon London University College London For her contribution to the structure of materials combining solid-state For outstanding contributions to metabolic NMR spectroscopy and first-principles phenotyping and systems biology, leading to calculations. novel biomarkers and mechanistic insights For his development and application of into toxicity and disease. Professor computational techniques to understanding and predicting the properties of functional Andrei semi-conductors for energy applications. Professor Khlobystov Sarah Price University of Dr Adrian University College Nottingham Chaplin London University of Warwick For his pioneering work on carbon nano- containers and nano-reactors leading to For transforming our understanding of the new ways of directing molecular assembly subtle differences in the crystalline organic and studying chemical reactions. For contributions to the fundamental solid state energy landscape and discovering organometallic chemistry of small molecule new physical forms of organic molecules. activation reactions. Creativity in Industry Prize Professor Dr Christopher Professor Anthony Watts Barnard Robert Paton University of Johnson Matthey University of Oxford Technology Oxford Centre

For pioneering new solid state NMR For high impact research in the field of For his pioneering work in using computation techniques that have revealed the functional platinum group metal chemistry for catalytic to understand reactivity and selectivity in significance of conformational dynamics and medicinal applications in industry. organic and bio-organic chemistry allowing in biomembrane complexes of ligands and rational design in synthesis. small molecules. © SHUTTERSTOCK

JUNE 2014 RSC NEWS 7 Nyholm Prize for Tilden Prize Inorganic Chemistry Awards Professor Dr Nick Greeves Mark Bradley Analytical Division University of University of Liverpool Edinburgh Ronald Belcher Award Dr Sophie Harvey For his extensive interdisciplinary work in The University the area of chemical biology, with a specific For the creation and development of focus on the control and manipulation of of Edinburgh ChemTube3D, an internationally renowned, stem cells. open education resource widely used in teaching chemistry at school and university. Professor Leroy Cronin For her outstanding innovation in native mass University of spectrometry of conformationally dynamic Perkin Prize for Glasgow, School proteins. Organic Chemistry of Chemistry

Professor Sir George Stokes Award Amos Smith For his work on the synthesis and University of understanding of the self-assembly, Professor Pennsylvania electronic structure and nanotechnology Sergei Kazarian and the Monell device applications of polyoxometalate Imperial College architectures. Chemical Senses London Center Professor For his continued outstanding contributions David Wales to new organic reaction development, University of complex natural product total synthesis, Cambridge For his outstanding, sustained contributions and new small molecules for medicinal to spectrochemical analysis via the chemistry. development of ATR-FTIR spectroscopic imaging.

For the development of methods to elucidate potential energy landscapes and their role in dynamics and Theophilus Redwood thermodynamics, with a particular Award emphasis on self-organisation. Professor Richard Van Duyne Northwestern University

For communication of his research in surface-enhanced and tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.

8 RSC NEWS JUNE 2014 Chemistry Biology Dalton Division Interface Division Applied Inorganic Dalton Young Researchers Jeremy Knowles Award Chemistry Award Award Professor Professor Yi Lu Mr Nicholas Herman University of Chilton Overkleeft Illinois at Urbana- The University Leiden University Champaign of Manchester

For his innovative and insightful development For his original research on the catalytic For his major contributions to theory of activity-based protein probes for the activity of DNA in the presence of metal and modelling in molecular magnetism, imaging and identification of enzymes in ions, and the development of a new class of developing new computer programs for health and disease. sensors for on-site and real-time detection fitting data and new intuitive models for of metal ions in environmental monitoring, understanding low temperature magnetic food safety, and medical diagnostics. behaviour. Norman Heatley Award Professor Bioinorganic Chemistry Homogeneous Catalysis Mark Wallace Award Award University of Professor Professor Oxford Paul Dyson Pedro Pérez Ecole Universidad Polytechnique de Huelva Fédérale de For his distinguished work in the area of artificial lipid bilayers, creating a new way Lausanne of studying membrane proteins. For his outstanding contributions to For the development of alkane C-H bioinorganic and medicinal chemistry functionalisation reactions, including those through the development of ruthenium- of methane, and other reactions catalysed Rita and John Cornforth based drugs. by metal carbenes. Award

Professors Inorganic Mechanisms Alison Ashcroft and Sheena Award Radford Professor University of Peter Ford Leeds University of For their seminal California, contributions in mass Santa Barbara spectrometry and allied biophysical methods to characterise For his fundamental contributions to the protein misfolding mechanisms of inorganic photochemistry, mechanisms and homogeneous catalysis and the bioinorganic inform on new chemistry of nitric oxide and related nitrogen strategies to combat oxide species. human disease.

JUNE 2014 RSC NEWS 9 Dalton Division (con) Dalton Division and Environment, Organic Division Sustainability & Energy Ludwig Mond Award Organometallic Chemistry Environment, Sustainability Professor Award and Energy Division Early Vivian Yam Career Award The University Professor of Hong Kong Todd Marder Professor Julius- Omar Farha Maximilians Northwestern Universität University For her work on the innovative design Würzburg, Institut King Abdulaziz of new strategies utilising non-covalent für Anorganische University metal-metal interactions as spectroscopic Chemie reporters for host-guest interactions For seminal contributions to the and microenvironment changes, and for For his pioneering, fundamental studies development of catalysis, storage and chemosensing and biological assays. of the synthesis, structure, bonding, separations by metal-organic frameworks. reactivity and photophysical properties of organometallic compounds, and their applications in homogeneous catalysis and Sir Edward Frankland materials chemistry. Fellowship Sustainable Energy Award Dr Scott Professor Dalgarno Education Division John Irvine Heriot-Watt University of University St Andrews Higher Education Teaching Award Dr Patrick For his work in supramolecular coordination For his outstanding and sustained O’Malley contributions to low carbon energy chemistry, in particular the synthesis The University and properties of d-block calixarene generation, in particular the development of compounds with applications in molecular of Manchester electrode materials for solid oxide fuel cells. nanomagnetism.

For the development and application of Toxicology Award technical innovation in the teaching methods Professor of university level chemistry education. Vicki Stone Heriot-Watt University

For pioneering transdisciplinary approaches to assessing the safety of nanomaterials.

10 RSC NEWS JUNE 2014 Faraday Division

Bourke Award Marlow Award Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award Professor Professor Lyndon Emsley Philipp Kukura Professor Nico Ecole University of Sommerdijk Polytechnique Oxford Eindhoven Fédérale de University of Lausanne Technology

For the development and application of For the development of ultrafast technical innovation in the teaching methods spectroscopic and ultrasensitive microscopic For his seminal contributions towards a of university level chemistry education. imaging techniques with applications in mechanistic molecular-scale understanding chemistry, physics and the life sciences. of macromolecular assembly and biomineral formation. Chemical Dynamics Dr Flemming Award Hansen University Spiers Memorial Award Professor College London Kenneth Professor A. Paul McKendrick Alivisatos Heriot-Watt Lawrence University For the development and application of NMR Berkeley National spectroscopy in understanding motions in Laboratory biological molecules at atomic resolution. For the development of novel methods to study elementary reactions and collisional For his contributions to the fundamental energy transfer in the gas phase and at the S F Boys-A Rahman Award understanding of the relationship between gas-liquid interface. nanoparticle synthesis and their properties. Professor Anna Balazs University of Surfaces and Interfaces Pittsburgh Award Professor Mihail Barboïu For the development of new theoretical Institut Europeen and computational approaches to enable des Membranes – understanding of polymeric materials. CNRS

For the development of artificial water channel systems, which have led to a better understanding of the molecular-scale hydrodynamics of water in biological systems and novel membranes systems for water purification.

JUNE 2014 RSC NEWS 11 Industry and Technology Division Materials Chemistry Division Chemistry World Young Industrialist Entrepreneur of the Year of the Year Award John B Goodenough Award Award Dr Charlotte Professor Dr Ray Fisher Hardy William David Peakdale GlaxoSmithKline ISIS Facility and Molecular University of Oxford

For her significant contribution to the For his development of new theoretical For innovation and entrepreneurship in UK delivery of three clinical candidates within and experimental approaches to powder fine chemicals and contract research for the respiratory portfolio at GlaxoSmithKline. diffraction and his contributions to the over 30 years. understanding of structure-property relationships in important solid-state materials. Materials for Industry – Inspiration and Industry Derek Birchall Award Award Professor Peter Day Award Dr Hilary Tobin Marks Professor Jeffreys Northwestern Russell Morris Actavis University University of St Andrews

For his pioneering work on the industrial For her significant contribution to the application of new organic, inorganic For his pioneering work on the chemistry promotion of the chemical sciences, both and hybrid materials for electronics of porous solids, especially his discovery of locally and nationally. and photonics. the Assembly-Disassembly-Organisation- Reorganisation route to zeolite synthesis.

Teamwork in Innovation Award

Procter & Gamble and Durham University Partnership

For their multidisciplinary, collaborative and high-impact research leading to product innovation.

12 RSC NEWS JUNE 2014 Organic Division

Bader Award Organic Industrial Physical Organic Chemistry Chemistry Award Award Professor Stephen Clark Dr Debra Wallace Professor University of MSD Anthony Davis Glasgow The University of Bristol

For the development of new reactions and strategies for the efficient synthesis of highly For her contributions to the design and For creative design and study of innovative functionalised natural products. implementation of green, efficient, safe functional molecular architectures, such as and cost effective synthetic routes to carbohydrate receptors and transmembrane drug candidates. anion transporters. Hickinbottom Award Dr John Bower Organic Stereochemistry Robert Robinson Award University of Award Bristol Professor Professor Chi-Huey David O’Hagan Wong University of Academia Sinica St Andrews For his research on the design and mechanism of broadly applicable transition metal catalysed processes for organic For his development of chemical and synthesis. For his outstanding contributions exploring enzymatic synthesis methods to elucidate the properties of stereoisomers of differently the roles of carbohydrates in biology and configured multiple C-F bonds. create new opportunities in medicine. Merck Award Professor Pedler Award Synthetic Organic Shuli You Chemistry Award Shanghai Institute Professor of Organic Michael Krische Professor Chemistry University of Richmond Texas at Austin Sarpong University For the development of catalytic asymmetric of California dearomatisation reactions opening elegant Berkeley access routes to complex molecular architectures. For pioneering novel powerful C-C coupling methodologies via transfer hydrogenation For the development of innovative and their applications to elegant and highly methodology for the total synthesis of efficient natural compound syntheses. complex alkaloid natural products.

2016 PRIZES AND AWARDS

Our portfolio of prizes and awards celebrates achievements in the chemical sciences, recognising individuals and teams in industry, education and academia. As we celebrate the success of our 2015 winners and organise symposia and lectures to showcase their contribution to the chemical sciences, the process of identifying our 2016 winners is on the horizon. The nomination period for the next round of RSC Prizes and Awards will open on 1 October 2015 and will close on 15 January 2016. See rsc.org/awards-funding/ for more information. We look forward to your 2016 nominations. If you have any questions about our nomination procedure, eligibility or process used, please contact [email protected]

JUNE 2014 RSC NEWS 13 Understanding public perceptions A first look at the findings from our research on public attitudes to chemistry in the UK

Last year we announced that we were undertaking research to try to understand public attitudes to chemistry in the UK (see RSC News October 2014) and since then hundreds of members have been involved in interviews, surveys and workshops. We are now very excited to present the findings of the first national, in-depth study of how the UK public thinks and feels about chemistry, chemists and chemicals.

The first study of its kind Much research has been conducted into public attitudes towards science but there is relatively little data about attitudes towards chemistry. Anecdotal evidence suggests that there is low public awareness and recognition of what chemists do. Our study provides robust data on the public’s relationship Public attitudes with chemistry in the UK, and an insight on how it could be to chemistry improved. The research was conducted on our behalf by the social Communication Toolkit 2015 research company TNS BMRB. It included several stages of qualitative and quantitative research, including a national public survey, with 2,104 face-to-face interviews with UK adults (16+). In this issue we present the key findings, along with an infographic insert. You can read the full report and see other supporting materials at rsc.li/pac

Good news Public attitudes The public perception of chemistry, chemists and chemicals to chemistry is more positive than we expected. We asked our members to take part in an online survey to find out how they thought the Research report TNS BMRB 2015 public answer some of the questions. When we compared what we thought people would say with what they actually said, we saw that members painted a significantly more negative picture than the one that emerged from the public survey. For example, only 25% of the UK public agreed that ‘school put them off chemistry’ but 96% of the members we polled thought that more people would have agreed with that statement. Also, 60% of the UK public agreed that ‘everything is made of chemicals’ but only 25% of the members we polled thought more than half the public would have said so. Pull out So our negative prediction has not been confirmed; far from it. and keep our Overall, people in the UK are positive about chemistry’s impact infographic on society. insert Continued on p19…

14 RSC NEWS JUNE 2015 Public attitudes to chemistry

The first national, in-depth study on how the UK public thinks and feels about chemistry, chemists and chemicals.

While there is extensive literature about the public image of science, there is little data specifically on chemistry. As we work to advance excellence in the chemical sciences for the benefit of science and humanity it’s critically important that we understand and measure people’s interest in and engagement with chemistry.

To unlock new insights we commissioned the social research company TNS BMRB to investigate current public attitudes, awareness, interest and engagement towards chemistry in the UK.

The reports and other materials are available online. Visit rsc.li/pac Public attitudes to chemistry

The first national, in-depth study on 84% of the UK public agreed that chemists how the UK public thinks and feels about make a valuable contribution to society chemistry, chemists and chemicals. But only For more information visit rsc.li/pac 12% of the chemists we interviewed thought the public would have said so

People are positive about chemistry’s contribution to society Most people can’t think of chemistry beyond their school memories When I talk about chemistry what comes to your mind? Top 5 answers

59% 55% 72% of the public believe the of the public believe agree that chemistry Science benefits of chemistry it is important to know research and are greater than any about chemistry in their developments make School/teachers harmful effects daily life a direct contribution to economic growth in the UK Drugs/ Chemicals/ elements 55% 72% 76% tablets/pills

for science* for science* for science* Medication

Public attitudes to chemicals Public perceptions of chemistry are more positive Although there are some concerns about chemicals, these do not affect than chemists expected people’s views on chemistry How do you feel about chemistry? (%)** How engaged or interested are you with chemistry? (%) 60% 70% 67% Neutral 51 of the public agreed of the public agreed that of the public disagreed Happy 19 that “everything is “everything including that “all chemicals are made of chemicals” water and oxygen can be man-made” Excited 11 toxic at a certain dose” Confused 11

Bored 10

Shocked 1

Sad 1

Angry 1

People don’t have an emotional connection with chemistry 62% of the UK public agreed that jobs 88% of the UK public said chemists in chemistry are interesting are approachable But only But only

27% of the chemists we interviewed 20% of the chemists we interviewed thought the public would have said so thought the public would have said so

People strongly associate Lack of confidence and feelings of inferiority could explain chemists with pharmacists the absence of emotional connection with chemistry When I talk about a chemist what comes to your mind? Top 5 answers School put me off… I don’t feel confident enough Chemistry to talk about chemistry 25% agree 48% disagree 23% neither agree nor disagree Pharmacies/ 4% don’t know Medication/ pharmacists medicine Science* 58% 24% agree of women 45% agree Prescriptions 63% disagree of men agree Shop/ 13% neither agree chemist’s nor disagree Drugs/ shop 1% don’t know tablets/pills

Public perceptions of chemistry are more positive People are interested in finding out more about chemistry, than chemists expected especially how it relates to their everyday life How do you feel about chemistry? (%)** How engaged or interested are you How interested people are in finding out more about the role of chemistry in… with chemistry? (%)

43% 42% 13% 65% 68% 63% 25 feeding world developing clean developing population water technology renewable energy 15 technologies 10 10 8 8 9 6 5 2

1 10 Not at Very all engaged 4.3 engaged

Mean score

Overall engagement is fairly low

Public attitudes to chemistry is a study conducted by TNS BMRB on behalf of the Royal Society of Chemistry. TNS BMRB conducted qualitative research followed by 2,104 face-to-face interviews with UK adults aged 16+. Interviews were conducted between 13 and 25 February 2015 on the TNS omnibus. For more details on the methodology and data visit rsc.li/pac *Ipsos MORI Public Attitudes to Science 2014 **Multi-coded questions represent % of respondents who select each category, but respondents can be in more than one category. We hope that this research on public attitudes to chemistry will help our members – and others interested in communicating chemistry to the public – to better understand their audiences. For more information about the research, including the report and the infographic visit rsc.li/pac Follow the conversation on Twitter #chemperceptions

Key principles for communication

Every encounter counts: public communication Keep it simple: how can you quickly convey 1 covers everything from public lectures to a 5 what excites you about your work and why it is conversation at a party, from a post on social important? Develop and perfect your ‘elevator media to an article in a newspaper – it is not just pitch’. about talking to interested adults or outreach within schools. Recognise your skills: communication is a skill 6 that can be learnt, and there is plenty of support Let your passion inspire others: show people how available to develop it. 2 chemistry makes you feel. They might forget the facts but will remember your enthusiasm. A two-way process: there is a common 7 misconception that science communication Understand your audience: remember to ask is where an expert ‘educates’ those with less 3 questions. It will help you to recognise their expertise. Instead it should be a two-way process level of confidence/interest – which may relate which involves talking about the interests of to their age and background – and tailor your others, asking questions and actively listening to communication accordingly. what your audience has to say.

Make it tangible: people relate to things they 4 understand and topics they care about. This can include everyday things such as food and transport – try and relate your work to people’s everyday interests and concerns.

Getting started For more information on how we are supporting our members to engage with the public visit rsc.li/outreach

Royal Society of Chemistry Thomas Graham House Burlington House International Offices www.rsc.org Science Park, Milton Road Piccadilly, London São Paulo, Brazil Bangalore, India Cambridge, CB4 0WF, UK W1J 0BA, UK Beijing, China Tokyo, Japan Registered charity number: 207890 Shanghai, China Philadelphia, USA © Royal Society of Chemistry 2015 T +44 (0)1223 420066 T +44 (0)20 7437 8656 Berlin, Germany Washington, USA Strong neutrality surprise, as many chemists know about this issue in the UK, the scale of this is certainly not to be Despite this general acclaim for chemistry, people lacked underestimated. Initial survey responses to the word specific examples of how chemistry makes a positive ‘chemist’ showed an overwhelming and strong impact, instead finding it easier to specify and visualise association with pharmacists (26%), medication (22%), negatives or stereotypes. People lacked personally- and the chemist’s shop (13%). When asked where a relevant and concrete examples and, for many, the chemist might work, three-quarters (76%) of respondents word chemistry activated memories, symbols, and said a pharmacy, with one in four (25%) mentioning only feelings of their school experience. In the absence of pharmacies. other associations, this was the predominant driver of responses. In general most people lack an emotional When we asked about chemists as scientists, people’s connection: half (51%) of our survey respondents said views were positive, with 95% saying they thought they felt ‘neutral’ about chemistry. chemists made a difference in the world, 93% saying they were honest, and 88% that they were approachable. (Read The lack of association and emotional neutrality is more about this in David Phillips’ opinion, see page 21.) indicative of a void in people’s engagement with chemistry. Their views are vulnerable to stereotypes and are influenced strongly by the only thing most people can link The double meaning of back to chemistry: their school experiences. Workshop ‘chemicals’ participants described their negative or neutral experience The word ‘chemicals’ is used in everyday language as at school leading them to feel indifferent, but for some it shorthand to refer to harmful or potentially dangerous elicited feelings of fear and insecurity. This translated into substances. Though this is the principal meaning, it is a general lack of confidence about the subject. Over half not the only meaning, and respondents showed their (52%) of survey respondents agreed that they did not definitions were multiple and context-dependent. In feel confident enough to talk about chemistry. general people scored quite well in all the questions about chemicals: Views on chemists • 75% disagreed that all chemicals are dangerous Most people associate chemists with pharmacists, and harmful, WORDS as they lack other examples of the kinds of industries • 70% agreeing that everything including water CHIARA CECI chemists work in. While this is probably not a big and oxygen can be toxic at a certain dose • 60% also said that everything is made of chemicals Public attitudes to Chemists Just as for chemistry, people were relatively neutral about chemicals (55%) and just under one in five (19%) reported feeling positive. People’s views of chemicals

When asked to think of chemists, the first thing people think of is a pharmacist, and for some people this is the only thing they think. This is because there is a void in people’s understanding were nuanced and multifaceted, and they were seen Public attitudes to chemistry of where chemists work and an associated lack of awareness in what they actually do or the outcomes they are working toward. People may fill that void with a negative stereotype, as they to possess positive, neutral and negative attributes. do with other scientists, thinking that they would be “different from me”, and expecting them to communicate in a way which is going to be difficult for them to understand.

Only said A clear finding of this research was the associative pharmacies or 31% hospitals separation that existed between chemicals and

of the public think think the benefits of “jobs in chemistry are chemistry are great than chemistry. People’s views and feelings about chemicals % interesting” % any harmful effects 62 59 were not attributed to chemistry or chemists. People lack an emotional connection with chemistry (%)

People recognise that chemistry is Neutral 51 important and are open-minded Happy 19 to learn more about it. However, 76% 47% 29% 17% 17% emotionally, people are largely Excited 11 Pharmacies Laboratories In hospitals In medical For Challenges and opportunities neutral or positive about chemistry. research pharmaceutical Confused 11 companies Source: Public Attitudes to Chemistry 2015 Public Survey Q.4B Which of the following describes how Bored 10 you feel about chemistry? Base: All respondents (2104) Source: Public Attitudes to Chemistry 2015 Public Survey Q.3 Where do you think for public communication Other 1 25% chemists work? (multi-code). Base: All respondents (2104) Only mentioned pharmacies of chemistry People currently have limited associations with chemistry, mainly thinking back to school experiences or defaulting 52% said When prompted, people recognise that not all chemists work in pharmacies to stereotypes. They also don’t feel confident, particularly “I don’t feel confident and, as with all scientists, they are held in high regard. if they didn’t have a good experience with science or enough to talk about Current public attitudes to chemistry are fairly neutral chemistry in school. Publicchemistry” attitudes to chemicals Make a difference in Honest Approachable Enthusiastic Interesting the world and in general the picture is more positive than we When I talk about chemistry what comes to your mind? Top 5 answers (%) expected. There are few actively negative views to 95% 93% 88% 85% 72% overcome, and there are some inherent challenges When talking about chemicals, most people are not referring to what scientists mean Source: Public Attitudes to Chemistry 21 16 14 8 6 by the same word. ‘Chemicals’ is used in everyday language as a short-hand to refer 2015 Public Survey Q.1A/Q.1B When involved in engaging people with a subject in which School/ Science Chemicals/ Medication Drugs/ to harmfulI talk about orchemistry, potentially what comes dangerous to Chemists substances. Changing the meaning of words is 12% 15% teachers elements tablets/pills 5% 7% 28% arguablymind? Base: almost All respondents impossible. (2104) We should acknowledge these two different meanings exist, and not worry that people are “getting it wrong”. Do not make they have limited interest. a difference in Dishonest Unapproachable Unenthusiastic Boring the world People are drawn in by the outcomes of work undertaken under the umbrella of Source: Public Attitudes to Chemistry 2015 Public Survey Q.5 Looking at these pairs of words or phrases, which one of “chemistry” but most are not familiar enough with its applications to feel like they have a each of these pairs comes closest to your current view of chemists? Base: All respondents (2104) This research offers us new insights into people’s view lot to say about the subject. For example, people are receptive to prompted examples: < 20% 60% of the public think of the public agree that on chemistry, chemists and chemicals. We hope the 68% 65%“all chemicals are “everything is made of 72% dangerous and chemicals” harmful” of people of people interested of people findings will inspire our community to think about interested in new in developing clean interested in drugs and medical water technology feeding world breakthroughs population the results. Explaining that ‘everything is made of chemicals’ will not necessarily How informed change people’s views – the majority of people already know this, people feel about and people can hold both meanings of the word as true at the chemicals used in same time. We look forward discussing the findings and their their everyday life How people feel about chemicals % implications with our members. There will be plenty of Neutral 55 opportunities in the upcoming months – including our Happy 13 9 Very well informed Excited 12 first outreach conference and the General Assembly Confused 8 48 Fairly well informed Bored 6 – and we hope many of you will have interesting 32 Shocked 3 Not very well informed discussions with colleagues and friends. Sad 3 11 Angry 3 Not at all informed We are keen to hear your thoughts and you can get in Source: Public Attitudes to Chemistry 2015 Public Survey Q.4C Source: Public Attitudes to Chemistry 2015 Public Survey Q.9A How well informed Which of the following describes how you feel about chemicals? do you feel about chemicals in your everyday life? Such as chemicals in cleaning Base: All respondents (2104) products, cosmetics and materials in general. Base: All respondents (2104) touch with your questions and comments by writing to People don’t necessarily feel strongly negative rational assessment of risk and their need to about chemicals – at the surface they are rely on regulators and industry to act in the [email protected] mostly neutral. However, they recognise long-term public interest. that they are not very knowledgeable about People’s views of chemicals do not impact their how chemicals are used, in industry or food view of chemistry or chemists. But if chemists For more information about the research, including the production for example, and this can make talk about chemicals all the time – especially them feel uneasy. These feelings are deeply in trying to combat inaccuracies in the views of embedded and strongly felt, and based on a others – we risk activating existing fears. report, toolkit and the infographic visit rsc.li/pac Follow the discussion on Twitter #chemperceptions

JUNE 2015 RSC NEWS 19 Opinion Letters and comments on RSC activities and issues

FROM THE EDITOR Public perceptions – over to you... The Public Attitudes to Chemistry research has been a fascinating project to be It’s once again part of. Along with members of our Outreach, Science, Chemistry World and time to celebrate Communications teams, I have been lucky enough to get invovled from the outset, excellence across including seeing first-hand the fascinating focus groups and research questionnaire. the chemical As editor of RSC News, I now want to hear from you with your reactions to the sciences in the research findings. form of our 2015 How do you feel about the results showing that our community thought the public awards and prizes. would have a much more negative view of chemistry than it actually does? And on the opposite page, you’ll see our former president, Professor David Phillips, Our news and with his view on the study. media team have been busy spreading What do you think we should now do to build on the robust data the research the word about this year’s winners - provides? we’ve already seen news coverage for I look forward to gathering your views and building on the excellent foundations our winners across the UK, in Ireland, this research gives us. France, Spain, Taiwan, China and the Edwin Silvester Cambridge, UK USA. You’ll find a full list of our winners from p6-13. We told you in October that we were Former presidents undertaking the first ever UK-wide research project into public attitudes On pages 8 and 9 of May 2015 RSC News there is a picture of seven ex-presidents but I do not see them named. Could you please let me know the name of the to chemistry. The results are now in president on the extreme left who appears to be wearing a University of Wales tie. – there’s a pull-out of the fascinating Rev Dr Graham D Loveluck FRSC Marianglas, UK findings from p15-18 and explanation © DAVID PARRY P/A and opinion from the project manager, Dr Chiara Ceci (p14 and p19) and Professor David Phillips (p21). And you can find out who was Top of the Bench for 2015, with a round-up of images of some of our brightest young chemists in action on our inside cover.

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Our illustrous former presidents are, from left to right: RSC News welcomes letters, which should be • Professor Eddie Abel, CBE, FRSC, who was president from 1996-1998 concise (normally less than 300 words) and • Professor Steve Ley, FRSC, FRS, president from 2002 to 2004 timely. Those selected for publication are subject to editing for clarity and length. Letters should be • Professor David Phillips, CBE, FRSC, FRS, president from 2010 to 2012 marked ‘for publication’; letters are not routinely • Professor Lesley Yellowlees, CBE FRSC FRSE, immediate past president acknowledged. [email protected] • Professor David Garner, FRSC, FRS, president from 2008 to 2010 You can also let us know your thoughts and • Professor Sir Harry Kroto, FRSC, FRS, president from 2002 to 2004 comments via Twitter or Facebook. • Professor Sir Simon Campbell, CBE, FRSC, FRS, president from 2004 to 2006 @RSC_Comms As for whether it’s a University of Wales tie, I’ll have to ask Professor Abel when facebook.com/RoyalSocietyofChemistry next our former presidents gather! Edwin Silvester Cambridge, UK

20 RSC NEWS JUNE 2015 A positive future for talking about chemistry David Phillips comments on our public attitudes to chemistry research and says that a first step in influencing attitudes towards chemistry will be for chemists to rethink their attitudes towards the public

As a passionate public advocate of chemistry I am I believe things have changed for the better in the last happy to have been involved with this project and ten years or so. Of course there is still a general issue found its approach very interesting. As professional with the word ‘chemicals’; it has a double meaning chemists, we thought that we knew how the public but the research tells us people understand both feels about chemistry, but we had no hard evidence meanings and that their views are nuanced. This is to back this up. For the first time this study provides confirmed by my experiences because when ask that evidence, and informs us how to better young schoolchildren these days how they feel about understand our audiences. ‘chemicals’, they will usually say they can be good For me the most interesting and surprising finding is or bad depending on what and how they are used. that the public perception of chemistry and chemicals 20 years ago, if a straw poll had been taken during Professor David Phillips is far more positive than professional chemists one of my lectures the overall response would have been that chemicals are ‘bad’. CBE FRSC FRS was believed. Having said that, this view is coloured by President of the Royal some confusion over what a chemist is and what a Society of Chemistry chemist does. For example, the misidentification of Changing our attitudes between 2010 and 2012 chemists as pharmacists, which is a peculiarly British and is Professor Emeritus The research shows that our views of public opinion phenomenon. While we could have anticipated this at the Department of can be too negative. Chemistry is our profession, result, I think we probably underestimated its scale. Chemistry, Imperial our passion, and we care about it so much that we We will have to work hard to try to ensure that College London. He was possibly a little biased. Perhaps we have become recently elected as a the noun ‘chemist’ is in future used for what we defensive due to poor press over decades. But we fellow of the Royal understand it to mean. should challenge this view and instead start thinking Society. We can’t easily change the common meaning of about public opinion in a more evidence-based way. a word but what we can do is be consistent with This research shows us a better picture than the way we use it so when we talk about ourselves anticipated but also a picture of neutrality towards and our job and say ‘I’m a chemist’ (and I am always chemistry. Instead of focusing on the minority of proud to say it!) we could change it to ‘I am a scientist negative views we should try to address this neutrality, working in chemistry’. And if we think that framing I believe that it is with these people that we can make ourselves as scientists sounds obvious, we should a difference. look to this research because it is not at all. It could be a first important step in contributing to a more Our motivation, style and tone shouldn’t fall just in understandable use of a word that defines who we are. the content-focused traditional approach in order to educate others. We need to embrace a more strategic and contextual approach of public communication My historical perspective where as much planning goes into understanding our I went to primary school in 1945, just at the end of audience and crafting an effective narrative as it does the WWII. Science then was in general viewed as in building the content. The first step in an effort to hugely beneficial to UK society, not least because of try to influence public attitudes towards chemistry is the widespread introduction of life-saving antibiotics. for us, as chemists, to rethink our attitudes towards The chemicals industry was viewed positively right up the public. until the late 1960s, early 70s. Certainly when I went to Read the full report at rsc.li/pac University in 1958, science was seen as a good thing – hard subjects were only attainable by the brightest students and an assurance of employment in industry, was again was viewed positively. “As professional chemists, we The growing awareness of issues like pollution, (after Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring), or mercury poisoning thought that we knew how the which caused Minimata disease in Japan led, fairly rapidly, in the 70s through 1980s to a general perception of chemicals and industry being seen public feels about chemistry, as ‘dirty’. The truth of course was that the chemical industries still provided immense benefits to society, but we had no hard evidence but all the good things were obscured by the focus in the press and environmentalists on ‘bad’ chemicals. to back this up”

JUNE 2015 RSC NEWS 21 One to one Take advantage of a wide range of member services Earning expectations – developing our Pay and Reward Survey

Would working in a different area of the Why take part? categories, provided you are not currently chemical sciences affect your pay? Can you an undergraduate student. Contribution from our members into this expect to earn more if you have a PhD or are survey is key to the quality of the data. The Your responses to the survey will be a Chartered Chemist? Will taking a career more responses we get to the survey, the collected in the strictest confidence and kept break affect your career prospects? What more representative our data on pay and completely anonymous. To ensure this, we could your salary increase to in the future? reward in the chemical sciences will be. And have partnered with external market research To help us give you the answers to these so we can provide our members with a more agency Research by Design, who fully questions and many more about salaries, pay reliable resource to plan and manage their comply with the Market Research Society and employment benefits, take part in our careers. Code of Conduct. We are confident in their Pay and Reward Survey later this month. In In addition to a written report, we will be work after they ran our Member Survey this straightforward questionnaire we will ask providing members with access to an in 2013. you to provide information, in the strictest interactive tool which you can use to directly confidence, about what you earn and Research by Design will be sending out compare your salary against others, using additional benefits you receive from an email on our behalf later this month, criteria of interest to you; from age, gender your employer. inviting you to take part in the survey. Your and geographical location through to contribution to this survey is essential for qualifications, employment sector and job role. Why do we run the survey? us to provide our members with a quality, This year, we will also be giving all members reliable and useful information on pay and We run this survey, to provide an who participate in the survey an exclusive rewards and we’d sincerely appreciate your authoritative report on salaries in the opportunity to view the results before they support in responding to this year’s Pay and chemical sciences. The data collected from become available to anyone else. Reward Survey. your responses to the questions provides a valuable resource to our members, This year, we will also be giving all members allowing them to benchmark their salaries. How to take part who participate in the survey an exclusive From planning future career options to We welcome input from members of opportunity to view the results before they contemplating a job change or negotiating all ages, career stages and membership become available to anyone else. a salary offer, the results are an extremely important tool for your career management. The survey, previously known as the Trends in Remuneration, has a rich history; we have collected salary information from our members every two years since 1920. The results give us the ability to track trends in income of those working in the chemical sciences over time, allowing us to analyse changes in our field. The report is also used by

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22 RSC NEWS JUNE 2015 Profile A closer look at our members and their interests Duncan Browne Stand first

Q What inspired your career in Currently there’s three of us in the group and there’s going to be another three people joining over the Duncan Browne chemistry? Caption summer for placement projects. I did have a very good teacher at school. His name A How I arrived at this – I did my PhD in Sheffield and was James Maple and at the time you probably didn’t that was a fairly hardcore Organic methodology realise quite how good some of these people were. It development. While in Sheffield I held a one-year turns out James had written the text book – you look EPSRC doctoral prize fellowship – I did my own back on it these days and it was very well written. research and then I moved to Cambridge to work with I think he was an Oxford graduate and he was very Steve Ley – four years as a post-doc in the use of flow well-spoken. He was also a bit of a free spirit because chemistry systems. he played the guitar. Sometimes at lunchtimes on The inspiration came from James Maple as a Mufti days he was there on the stage playing in a band schoolboy, then Joe Harrity was my PhD student – composed of teachers and students. and I suppose he put his thoughts on to me – then In the lab he would always be very experimental with Steve Ley also left a strong impression. his demonstrations. To the side of his blackboard you’d have a crash helmet – once a year he’d do his Q You’ve been in India recently with hydrogen balloon with a lit splint explosion reaction. the Royal Society of Chemistry – tell us There were several other things he would do. Some about that Borax slimes and air-puffed mixtures – he’d mix two liquids and get a very exothermic reaction that A The first time I went at the end of my PhD to IIT produced a gaseous product with a foam that spills Kanpur, as part of a delegation led by Ray Jones. The over the top of the flask. second time was this year and we went to the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Bhopal I wouldn’t say it inspired us as to what we’re currently and Pune, as well as the National Chemical Laboratory researching but as a young person at the time who in Pune. quite enjoyed school but very much learned visually, I think that’s what hit the gong with me. That and This was as part of a small delegation from the RSC led the fact that he was clearly communicating very by David Phillips. I suppose we were ambassadors for effectively. UK chemistry, trying to show what we’re doing here and to see whether there’s commonality with people in Q What does your work now involve India who are also researching in chemistry. and how have you got there? “I think being Q What have you gained from working A Our current work is involved in exploring the use of with the chemistry community in India? in India, the different enabling chemical technologies to streamline facilities we or clean up a little bit the molecular synthesis process. A I think I gained a more holistic view of what the RSC As society we’re interested in new molecules that are actually doing, which I didn’t appreciate before. saw were just can serve us with some new kind of function, be it a You speak to many academics and I guess we’re all healthcare product or a flavour or a fragrance. quite busy – we don’t necessarily pick up everything that’s going on outside of our bubble. amazing. This These new molecules have to be made or indeed discovered in some way or other and traditionally I think being in India, the facilities we saw were just very smart the way this is done isn’t always as clean as it can amazing. This very smart thing of combining biology, thing of be. There’s a bit of a dichotomy that exists because physics and chemistry under one roof so they can sometimes we get a new discovery very rapidly and the all share the expensive analytical machinery – it’s combining most effective approach isn’t to care about the way in quite sensible. If you’re building from zero to new which you do it. infrastructure it’s easily possible but I suppose in the UK biology, physics We can change that over time so subtly changing the system we can’t rebuild from zero, so we’re working and chemistry technique by which someone’s doing the reaction. with what we’ve got. Instead of doing the reaction in a traditional round- I think actually the RSC delegation over there made me under one bottomed flask that we all know and love, we try to realise how quickly some of these countries are going do it using flow chemistry, mechanochemistry or to catch up, with what they’re doing and it’s opened roof….” microwave heating techniques. collaborations for me.

JUNE 2015 RSC NEWS 23 Diary Your guide to all important events

IN THE DIARY DATES AND RSC conferences DEADLINES Conferences 24 Faraday Discussion Analytical Research Events 25 Advanced Vibrational Forum 2015 Spectroscopy for Biomedical 3 July 2015 Eastern 25 London, UK Applications Final registration deadline: International 25 21–23 March 2016 12 June 2015 Midlands 25 Cambridge, UK http://rsc.li/arf15 Oral abstract submission deadline – 6 July 2015 Solid Oxide Electrolysis: North East 26 The time is right for a discussion meeting on the rapidly changing Fuels and Feedstocks field of vibrational biomedical spectroscopy. Diagnostic and North West 26 from Water and Air prognostic tools based on these new technologies have the potential (Faraday Discussion) Scotland 26 to revolutionise our clinical systems leading to improved patient outcome, more efficient public services and significant economic 13-15 July 2015 South East 26 savings for healthcare providers and society. York, UK Final registration deadline: Help answer the many fundamental scientific and technological South West 27 15 June 2015 questions that need to be addressed before any of this can happen Wales 27 by submitting an abstract within these themes: http://rsc.li/electrolysis-fd2015 • spectral pathology Notices 28 12th International • single cell analysis/data handling Conference on Materials Summary of • clinical spectroscopy Chemistry (MC12) 20-23 July 2015 Financial • biofluids and other techniques York, UK Statements 30 http://rsc.li/vibspec-fd2016 Final registration deadline: Deaths 31 22 June 2015 http://rsc.li/mc12

Challenges in Chemical NOTICES Faraday Discussion Renewable Energy Designing New (ISACS 17) Heterogeneous Catalysts 8-11 September 2015 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 4–6 April 2016 Poster abstract deadline: London, UK 29 June 2015 Oral abstract submission deadline: 20 July 2015 http://rsc.li/isacs17 Catalysis is a core area of contemporary science posing major fundamental and conceptual challenges. It is also at the heart of the Single- Molecule chemical industry, playing a crucial part in the production of 80% of Microscopy and all manufactured goods. Spectroscopy Help shape the discussion around the design of new heterogeneous 14-16 September 2015 catalysts by submitting an abstract within these themes: London, UK Join us at this year’s AGM on 8 • catalyst design from theory to practice Poster abstract deadline: July. More information on p28. • designing new catalysts: synthesis of new active structures 6 July 2015 • bridging model and real catalysts http://rsc.li/molecule-fd2015 Further • application of novel catalysts information Joliot – Curie Conference The aim of this meeting is to develop fundamental understanding 2015 To find out more about any of key aspects of catalytic science, especially relating to knowledge 16-17 September 2015 event on this page, see that is essential for the design of new catalysts: catalyst preparation Cambridge, UK www.rsc.org/events and production, the determination of atomic-architectures of active, Poster abstract deadline: reactive and de-activated catalysts and modelling of the active site. Call +44 (0) 1223 43 22 July 2015 2254/2380 Don’t miss your chance to be involved. http://rsc.li/joliot-curie-2015 Or email [email protected] http://rsc.li/catalysis-fd2016

24 RSC NEWS JUNE 2015 Teacher Training Scholarships Inspire the next generation Apply for a Royal Society of Chemistry Teacher Training Scholarship Diary Events i http://rsc.li/teacher-scholarships Organic Chemistry Symposia Switzerland Your guide to all important events Further information – Kyoto 5 June The RSC News Diary this month lists Royal Society of Chemistry ISACS16: Challenges in Kyoto University, Japan Chemical Biology events from June to July 2015 that are held on our conference The Symposium will bring together 15-18 June database. Further details on any of these meetings can be leading international scientists ETH, Zurich, Switzerland obtained from the named contact or from our conference website delivering lectures which cover The event will bring together the broad spectrum of organic at www.rsc.org/events world-leading experts from several synthesis, from small organic You can search events by name, date or keywords and have the disciplines under the broad subject molecules to biomolecules and of chemical biology. The diverse option to browse by location, subject area and event type. organic materials. It will comprise subject scope will provide a broad three one-day meetings each one overview of some of the key featuring a selection of Japanese challenges within cutting edge and international speakers. There areas of chemical biology with will also be seminars on publishing EASTERN INTERNATIONAL many opportunities for networking. by RSC journal Editors. Registration Our hope is that delegates will be is free. exposed to new areas of research, Essex Section Japan Contact RSC Events encouraging the cross fertilization +44 (0)1223 434048 Spectroscopy Workshops Organic Chemistry Symposia of ideas. There will be extensive [email protected] 1,3,6,8 and 10 July – Sendai poster sessions in the evening and University of Essex 1 June questions after each talk. A hands on day for A-level students Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan China Contact RSC Events to gain experience of spectroscopy The Symposium will bring together + 44(0)1223 434048 in action. There is a charge of £10 leading international scientists International Symposium [email protected] per student, teachers gratis. delivering lectures which cover on Mechanochemistry Contact Alan Osborne the broad spectrum of organic 6-7 June Germany +44 (0)208 590 2021 synthesis, from small organic University of Science and [email protected] molecules to biomolecules and Technology of China, Hefei, Formulation Science and organic materials. It will comprise Anhui, China Technology Group three one-day meetings each one This international symposium will Right on Target – Sector Mid-Anglia Section featuring a selection of Japanese bring together leading experts as and international speakers. There Specific Formulation for Building Stones of well as emerging researchers in the Performance Optimisation will also be seminars on publishing field of mechanochemistry. Cambridge – Geology by RSC journal Editors. Registration and Control Walking Tour Contact is free. +86 5982 2317 24-25 June 18 June Contact RSC Events [email protected] Koelnmesse, Cologne, Germany Cambridge City Centre +44 (0)1223 434048 This two day international This walking tour takes in a wide [email protected] symposium organised by the RSC variety of buildings and rock types Portugal Speciality Chemicals Sector at in a compact area of the city Organic Chemistry Symposia the 2015 Chemspec Europe & centre. The route involves about a – Tokyo Chemistry Biology Chemsource Exhibitions organised mile and a half of walking. Tickets 3 June Interface Division by Quartz Chemicals in Cologne. are limited and there is a charge of Tokyo University, Japan 6th European Conference Contact Patricia Keen £5 per person. The Symposium will bring together on Chemistry for the Life +44 (0)1606 888005 Contact John O’Toole leading international scientists Sciences [email protected] +44 (0)1223 894174 delivering lectures which cover 10-12 June [email protected] the broad spectrum of organic Reitoria da Universidade Nova de synthesis, from small organic Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal molecules to biomolecules and MIDLANDS Other Events The conference will provide an organic materials. It will comprise excellent opportunity to view state three one-day meetings, each one Organic Division of the art research and network Other Events featuring a selection of Japanese with other European chemical 24th International and international speakers. There biologists. It is run by the EuCheMS Medicinal Chemistry Symposium: Synthesis in will also be seminars on publishing Division for Chemistry in the Life Residential School Organic Chemistry by RSC journal Editors. Registration Science in collaboration with the 21-26 June 20-23 July is free. European Federation for Medicinal Burleigh Court Conference Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge Contact RSC Events Chemistry. Loughborough University The flagship event of the Organic +44 (0)1223 434048 Contact Sofia Pauleta Contact RSC Events Division. [email protected] +35 (1) 212948835 +44(0)1223 434048 Contact RSC Events [email protected] [email protected] +44 (0)1223 432254 [email protected]

JUNE 2015 RSC NEWS 25 EVENTS

NORTH EAST Other Events NORTH WEST SCOTLAND Structured Soft and Central Yorkshire Section Biological Matter Liverpool Section Energy Sector York River Cruise 9 June Retired Members’ Event 1st Chemistry in Energy Calman Learning Centre, 28 June 23 June Conference Durham University York Boat Company Knowsley Hall, Prescot 20-22 July This one-day meeting, co- Meet for a river cruise through Private Guided Tour of Knowsley Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh organised by the RSC journal Soft historic York. The cruise is £9 Hall followed by afternoon tea. The purpose of this Conference Matter and the Durham Centre per person. Tickets are £21 and members can is to bring together scientists for Soft Matter, will mark the Contact Duncan McDougall bring a guest. and technologists from academe 10th anniversary of the launch of +44 (0)1757 709230 Contact Dr Bob Lee and industry with interests in the Soft Matter. Featuring thought- [email protected] +44 (0)1513 347875 applications of Chemistry in the provoking talks from members [email protected] Energy Industry. Given the wide the Soft Matter Editorial Board, the scope of this conference, it is meeting will contain two theme Hull and East Yorkshire intended to hold multiple parallel sessions: one focussing on the Section Other Events sessions, with individual sessions chemistry, physics and dynamics which will identify fundamental of condensed polymer rings, and Mixer Meeting and Professor Michael Willis chemical science subjects and will, the second on nanostructured soft Exploration of Hull’s RSC Award Lecture for example, cover cross-cutting materials. The aim is to explore the Guildhall 10 June issues over the whole energy essential structures of these soft 3 June The University of Manchester, field, such as materials chemistry, matter systems at different length Guildhall, Hull Chemistry Building corrosion, water/steam chemistry, scales, and compare and contrast Meet other local section members Contact Lu Shin Wong etc. differences between biological and and guests for a glass of wine and +44 (0)1613 068939 Contact Maggi Churchouse non-biological soft matter. tour of Hull’s Guildhall historic [email protected] +44 (0)1359 221004 Contact Nicola Wise, RSC rooms and treasures followed by maggi@maggichurchouseevents. 01223 432438 supper. Corday-Morgan Prize 2014 co.uk Contact Phil Caygill [email protected] Lecture Tour +44 (0)1482 783978 19 June [email protected] Faraday Division University of Manchester, Solid Oxide Electrolysis: Fuels SOUTH EAST and Feedstock from Water Chemistry Building Cafe Scientifique – Biomass: • Professor Milo Shaffer an Old Known Source of and Air: Faraday Discussion Contact Sven Koehler Chilterns and Middlesex Green Energy 13-15 July +44 (0)16130 64448 Section 24 June University of York [email protected] The White Horse Inn (Nellies), There is great interest in converting Retired Members` Beverley electricity overcapacity e.g. from NMR Discussion Group Guided Tour of Strawberry An introduction to lignocellulosic renewables, to fuels such as Postgraduate Meeting Hill House biomass gasification. hydrogen and synthetic gasoline 25 June 30 June Contact Mark Lorch or for the conversion of nitrogen University of Manchester, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham +44 (0)1482 465687 to ammonia. School of Chemistry Building A guided tour of Horace Walpole`s [email protected] Contact RSC Events This meeting is designed to House followed by lunch. +44 (0)1223 432380 showcase the research work of Contact Stephen Robinson [email protected] +44 (0)208 546 7940 Sheffield and District early career researchers, including postgraduates, early career [email protected] Materials Chemistry Division Summer Social postdoctoral workers and young 12th International industrialists whose work has a 18 June Conference on Materials strong NMR content. Following Kent Section The Fat Cat, Sheffield Chemistry (MC12) on from previous years, there Beer garden social event. Tour of Hilger Crystals 20-23 July will be two overview lectures by Contact Jackie Morton (Manufacturer of synthetic University of York established NMR spectroscopists. +44 (0)1298 218437 crystals) The Conferences represent the This event provides an ideal [email protected] flagship event of the Materials opportunity for early career 26 June Chemistry Division. The meeting researchers to gain experience Hilger Crystals, Margate A tour of their manufacturing site Teesside Section is organised into six themes run in presenting their work, either in four parallel sessions, with two in poster format or via oral which will also include a talk on RSC Bioorganic Chemistry poster sessions to allow maximum presentation. the processes involved. This tour Award Lecture participation of all delegates. Six Contact Stephen Byard is free but places are limited. Plenary Lecturers will talks across +44 (0)1665 608544 Contact Craig Milsted 1 June the scope of the conference, while [email protected] +44 (0)1845 866668 Durham University 24 Keynote Speakers will set the [email protected] Biosynthesis of Cyclic Peptide scene for different aspects of the Catalysis: Fundamentals Antibiotics six topics, supported by more than and Practice Presented by Professor Wilfred A. 100 contributed talks. Around 300 Van der Donk, University of Illinois. 20-24 July posters will be displayed over the Contact AnnMarie O’Donoghue University of Liverpool two sessions. +44 (0)1913 342592 The Summer School introduces Contact RSC Events annmarie.odonoghue@durham. catalytic science, engineering +44 (0)1223 432380 ac.uk and business, and provides an [email protected] opportunity to meet leading catalyst scientists. Contact Jon Iggo [email protected]

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Initial Teacher Training Fullerenes – Past, Present Other Events Provider Meeting and Future, Celebrating WALES 17 June the 30th Anniversary of Biological and Medicinal Buckminster Fullerene Chemistry Sector Lectureship The Royal Society of Chemistry, South East Wales – Award Lecture Burlington House, London 15-16 July Section An opportunity for us to consult The Royal Society of Chemistry, 3 June with science Initial Teacher Training Burlington House, London Boronic Acids: Recognition, Institute of Cancer Research, providers about current issues A two-day symposium to honour Sensing and Assembly London in ITT, and how we can best Professor Sir Harry Kroto’s scientific 1 June Michael Waring is a Principal support trainee teachers and their achievements and to celebrate the Cardiff University Scientist in the Oncology medicinal providers. 30th anniversary of the discovery The lecture will last approximately chemistry group at AstraZeneca Contact Lizi McLoughlin, RSC of C60. Organised jointly with the one hour. and has worked on projects at all +44 (0)1223 432500 Royal Society. Contact James Redman stages of drug discovery across [email protected] Contact RSC Events +44 (0)2920 876273 both oncology and cardiovascular +44 (0)1223 434048 [email protected] disease areas, culminating in the [email protected] discovery of 14 development Environmental Chemistry Group Alkaloid Biosynthesis candidates, including AZD9291. in Plants Contact Professor Keith Jones Distinguished Guest Tertiary Education Group +44 (0)208 722 4334 Symposium on University Teaching Fellows 8 June [email protected] Nanomaterials and Annual Network Meeting Cardiff University General Meeting 23 July The seminar will last for one hour. Management Group 24 June University of Sussex No registration necessary. Contact James Redman From Macro-Trend to The Royal Society of Chemistry, Contact Shane Lo Fan Hin +44 (0)2920 876273 Macromolecule Burlington House, London +44 (0)1273 678439 Nanomaterials – Environmental [email protected] [email protected] 4 June Remediants or Toxicants? The Royal Society of Chemistry, Hosting Prof Eva Valsami-Jones. Burlington House, London South West Wales The group’s AGM will be held after A free to attend evening lecture. Section the meeting. SOUTH WEST Dr Robert Watson from Nuplex Contact Rowena Fletcher-Wood Resins will look at some specific Retired Members 01214 145205 examples of downstream industries Bristol and District Meeting and Tea [email protected] and the role that chemistry plays, in Section 18 June particular polymer chemistry, from Sketty Hall, Swansea Emerging Technologies No More Drugs for the perspective of coatings and Showcase Contact John Davies ultimately show the relationship Superbugs. The End of +44 (0)1792 894778 between macro-trend and 29 June the Antibiotic Age? [email protected] macromolecule. The Royal Society of Chemistry, 10 June Contact Mario Moustras Burlington House, London Royal Agricultural University, [email protected] Join us to see our competition Cirencester finalists present the latest Open to RSC members and guests. Automation and Analytical technologies in the chemical Contact Colin Chapman Management Group sciences and hear about future +44 (0)1453 547531 Bioanalytical Sensing trends in science and design from [email protected] Technologies our visionary speakers. Network and form new collaborations with Women Members’ 16 June our guests from small companies, Network Meeting The Royal Society of Chemistry, universities, multinationals, and 30 June Burlington House, London investment firms. The event will Zero Degrees, Bristol The conference will examine the conclude with a black-tie dinner Contact Beth Anderson design and application of materials at BAFTA 195 Piccadilly. +44 (0)117 331 7194 and development of sensors for Contact RSC Events [email protected] monitoring medical and biological +44 (0)1223 434048 processes. It will be supplemented [email protected] with poster presentations and an Mid-Southern Counties exhibition. Analytical Division Section Contact R Narayanaswamy Analytical Research Forum +44 (0)7974 515265 Porous Organic Cages – [email protected] 3 July More than MOFs Minus The Royal Society of Chemistry, the Metals Burlington House, London The Forum provides a high 17 June impact scientific meeting for Southampton University the UK analytical community Contact Syma Khalid with both high profile speakers +44 (0)2380 594176 and opportunities for younger [email protected] researchers to present their work. Contact RSC Events +44 (0)1223 434048 [email protected]

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Annual General Meeting Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) is one of our foremost meetings held each year, and we would like to invite you to join us at this year’s AGM on Wednesday 8 July at 17.00 in Burlington House, Piccadilly, London. At the meeting, President Dominic Tildesley and Chief Executive Robert Parker will review the work we’ve done for the chemical sciences and our financial statements for 2014. We will note the election of members to our governance bodies including welcoming our next President Elect. The AGM offers a great opportunity for members to direct questions to Council and the Leadership Team and we are keen to hear your views on our activities. The meeting will be followed by a reception, Invitation to a Special Lecture which offers you additional opportunities to We would also like to invite you to attend a special lecture at Burlington House before network with Council, employees and other the start of the AGM. From 15.00, Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff CBE CChem HonFRSC members. FRS, Research Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham will give a lecture Further information is provided in the AGM Notice titled Chimistes Sans Frontière, this lecture will suggest how chemists should be crossing circulated alongside this month’s magazine and borders to reach new people, new disciplines and new solutions to global challenges. on our website at http://rsc.li/agm15 You may register your attendance by email [email protected]

Join the Early Career Network Committee Analytical Awards The Early Career Network is member-led, and activities and events are organised Symposium by Early Career Network Representatives and driven by the Early Career Network The 2015 Analytical Awards Symposium recently Committee. took place at Manchester University, in the We are looking for three members to join our Early Career Network Committee. The Manchester Institute of Biotechnology. The committee will meet at least once a year, and has the following remit; to have oversight aim of the event was to showcase the value on activities that support members in the early stages of their career, suggest and that analytical chemistry and more broadly support potential activities, agree funding levels and identify areas of development for analytical science at all levels and to celebrate the Early Career Network. excellence through our awards programme The Early Career Network (previously known as the Younger Member Network) is an which recognizes early career as well as more inclusive network for anyone who considers themselves in the early stages of their established researchers at the cutting edge of career and who feels they would benefit from networking within their peer group our vitally important field of chemistry. whilst forming connections with others who are further ahead in their career, whilst in The event covered some of the excellent work a friendly and accessible environment. This may include members in industry, teachers, taking place in analytical science across a students, academics, as well as members who are returning to work or study following wide range of applications, from cell imaging a career break, or those changing career path. and proteomics through to detection of For more information on the role and the network please go to psychoactive substances, food analysis, point of rsc.li/early-career-network care diagnostic devices to analysis of pigments in valuable paintings. If you are interested in joining our committee please contact Marie Chapman by 1 July 2015 at [email protected], attaching a short personal statement outlining why Professor Perdita Barran and her students you would like the role. For more information, please email or call 01223 432274. organised an interactive, energetic and thoroughly enjoyable event. Thanks are also due to our award winners who enabled us to celebrate great science that was communicated Medimmune Protein and Peptide so well – we will look forward to hearing them Science Award all again in the future! The Protein and Peptide Science Group (PPSG) is pleased to announce that the winner The event featured talks by Evan Williams (UC of the 2015 Medimmune Protein and Peptide Science Award is Professor David Spring, Berkeley), Shabaz Mohammed (Oxford), Sarah from the University of Cambridge. McAughtrie (Strathclyde), Kevin Giles (Waters Corporation), Amira Guirguis (University of In recent years Professor Spring has developed novel methodologies for the synthesis Hertfordshire), Emma Richardson (University of diverse macrocylic peptidomimetics and the synthesis of stapled peptides where the College London), Roberto de la Rica (University staple itself can be functionalised. of Strathclyde) and Isabel Garcia-Perez (Imperial Professor David Spring will receive his award, and give the Plenary Lecture, at the PPSG College London). See more on p31. Early Stage Researcher Meeting on Friday 13 November 2015.

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Chemical Reaction Challenge prizes Students, teachers and parents joined members of staff and partners 3P Learning for the Chemical Reaction Challenge prize giving, held at Burlington House in May. We organised the challenge in partnership with 3P Learning to celebrate British Science Week 2015. Almost 4,000 students around the world competed against each other and the clock for the chance to win an iPad for themselves and a free site licence for IntoScience – the interactive digital science resource – for their school. Congratulations to our winners (who seemed to thoroughly enjoy their tour of Burlington House with members of our education and marketing teams!). Top schools: • Wilson’s School in Wallington, UK – highest number of students taking part • Beaconhouse Margalla Islamabad, Pakistan – highest average student score Top students: • First place: Declan Bradley, King Edward’s School, Birmingham, UK • Second place: Jack Gamble, Cokethorpe School, Witney, UK Our education team taking our guests on a tour of Burlington House. • Third place: Raunak Jain, King Edward’s School, Birmingham, UK • Highly commended: Izzy Saint, Jarrow School, Jarrow, UK Our Chemical Reaction Challenge winners.

RSC Energy Sector PhD Thesis Award Competition 2014 Dr Oluwafunmilola Ola is the winner of the RSC Energy Sector Second place was awarded to Dr Hazel Reardon for her PhD entitled PhD Thesis Award competition for 2014. The award is given for an Structure and Characterisation of Novel Lightweight Energy Materials outstanding PhD Thesis completed at a UK university in the calendar based on Group I and II Metal Compounds and third place to Dr Ruth year 2014 in the field of Chemistry for the Energy Sector and assessed Downie for her PhD entitled Synthesis, Structure and Properties of by a panel of experts drawn from the RSC Energy Sector Committee. Zintl-Type Thermoelectric Materials. Dr Ola’s thesis entitled Effect of Metal Doping and Supports on The award is given to spotlight UK PhD research in the energy sector TiO2-based Catalysts for CO2 Photoreduction and her work explores and the competition is judged largely on the content and quality of the production of solar fuels from carbon dioxide, water and sunlight an Executive Summary submitted by the candidate and considers the with a sol-gel derived TiO2 photocatalysis. A key discovery was that following criteria: (i) the level to which the work addresses a clear methanol production rates from CO2 using copper and cobalt doped identified need in UK or global energy requirements, (ii) the level to TiO2 on a quartz support was found to be 20 times higher than which the work adds significant new understanding to an aspect of the conventional technique. Dr Ola completed her PhD studies at the energy sector and (iii) the level to which the work contributes to Heriot-Watt University under the supervision of Professor Mercedes quantifiable environmentally sustainable energy provision. Maroto-Valer. For further details please contact [email protected]

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Summary of financial information 2014 Total income Each year we pull together a summary of the previous £53,940,000 year’s activities and our financial performance in the Financial Statements and Trustees’ Report. A summary of our financial statements is reproduced here. For more detailed information on our finances as well as our many achievements throughout 2014 you can download the full report at www.rsc.org/aboutus/ corppubs We will also share further details at the Annual General Meeting, which will take place on Wednesday Income (£000) Expenditure (£000) 8 July at 17.00 at Burlington House. Voluntary income 206 375 Voluntary income Investment income 3,140 71 Investment income I am pleased to report that 2014 again saw some fantastic Membership 3,617 4,249 Membership achievements, with a total of £55.20M being spent on supporting House journal 1,072 1,880 House journal the chemistry community and advancing excellence in the chemical sciences. A modest deficit was generated on a turnover Conferences 1,274 2,305 Conferences of £53.94M, which was an increase of £2.34M on the prior year, Qualifications and education 506 5,645 Qualifications and education and which underpins the Society’s commitment to investing in the chemical sciences. Publishing 40,290 33,024 Publishing Membership has continued to grow to an all-time high of 51,561, Library 2 493 Library generating £3.62M from subscriptions. This was balanced by expenditure of £4.25M in support of members and member Scientific affairs 937 5,361 Scientific affairs activities. Our membership retention rate rose to 91%, with 84% International development 534 1,255 International development of respondents saying that they are proud to be members of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Other 857 103 Other We were again able to increase overall expenditure in support of Activities for generating funds 493 441 Activities for generating funds scientific affairs, from £1.76M in 2013 to £2.31M in 2014 due to Defined benefit scheme 1,012 an increased number of conferences that were organised and supported by the Society during the year. Our publishing portfolio continued to perform well, returning a surplus of £7.27M over the year. We attracted 92,139 submissions to our journals and published 36,251 articles, representing a 33% year-on-year growth. We also announced that our flagship journal, Chemical Science, would become a Gold Open Access journal from 2015, with a two-year waiver on article processing fees. Overall, we continue to be a in strong position to play a major role in advancing and promoting the chemical sciences and to maintain our position as one of the world’s leading sources of reliable chemical science knowledge. Professor David Grayson, Honorary Treasurer Total expenditure £55,202,000 TRUSTEES’ STATEMENT This financial information is taken from the audited and published statements for 2014, which were approved in April 2015. The full financial statements contain an unqualified audit report and will be submitted to the Charity Commission after the Royal Society of Chemistry Annual General Meeting on 8 July 2015. This summary information may not contain sufficient information to allow a full understanding of the financial affairs of the group and parent charity. The 2014 Financial Statements and Trustees’ Report is available for download from www.rsc.org/aboutus/corppubs If you would like a printed copy or have any questions regarding the financial statements, please contact our finance department at [email protected]

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Tom West Fellowship Award nominations open 2015 Tom West Part of the Analytical Division celebrations in Manchester (see p28) included awards given to celebrate winners the life and work of Professor Tom West FRS CBE. The fellowship was established to assist early career The winners of the 2015 Tom West analytical chemists within five years of their first full-time junior academic appointment at a UK or Irish Fellowships, pictured left at the higher education institution to establish their own independent analytical science research identity. Analytical Awards Symposium are: The fellowships are valued at £15,000 and may be used by fellows in any way that advances the • Dr Emma Richardson, purpose of the fellowship and of the Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund. University College London To apply or for more information please contact the the Trust Secretary, Dr David A Ferguson: Tom West Analytical Fellow in tel: 01276 500780 or email [email protected] Heritage Science • Dr Isabel Garcia-Perez, Imperial College London Development of novel multivariate analytical methods to characterise low molecular weight molecules in whole meals • Dr Roberto de la Rica, University of Strathclyde Biosensors for the one-step detection of proteins with the naked eye The Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund administrates the Tom West Fellowships, which were established in 2012.

Deaths

Dr Douglas Ambrose OBE Mr Albert John Buchanan Dr Velliyur Nott Mallikarjuna Professor John Nicholas CChem FRSC Retired. Died Edgar MC CChem MRSC Retired Rao MRSC Retired scientist, Staniforth CChem FRSC 1 February 2015, aged 95 Procter & Gamble Ltd. Died EI Dupont de Nemoors & Co. Died 6 March 2015, aged 61 Mr Frank William Bampton 25 March 2015, aged 92 Died December 2014, aged 77 Mr Edward Stevenson CSci CChem FRSC Retired. Died Mr Jeffery George Flower Mr Eric Marshall CChem MRSC CChem MRSC Discipline lead 18 March 2015, aged 97 CChem MRSC Retired Dickinson Retired prescribed analyst, The production chemistry, Shell Mr James Hugh Brash MRSC Robinson Group. Died 1 February Townley Analytical Company. International Exploration & Retired. Died 13 March 2015, 2015, aged 84 Died 3 March 2015, aged 88 Production. Died 4 February aged 83 Dr Alan John Fudge CChem Mr Frederick Johnson Morpeth 2015, aged 63 Professor Raymond Victor MRSC Retired principal scientific CChem FRSC Retired. Died Mr Raymond Tully-Turner Brooks OBE CChem FRSC officer, AEA Technology. Died 18 August 2014, aged 75 CChem FRSC Management Retired Emeritus Professor, 7 March 2015, aged 86 Mr Finnbar Murphy CChem consultant. Died 29 March 2015, St Thomas Hospital. Died Professor Raymond Gerdil MRSC Retired. Died 16 March aged 94 24 March 2015, aged 92 MRSC Retired crystallographer, 2015, aged 91 Dr John Edward Tyler CChem Dr Peter Ellyatt Cattermole University of Geneva. Died Mr Robert Symes Robertson FRSC Retired research scientist, CChem FRSC Retired head of 14 November 2014, aged 85 CChem MRSC Retired. Died Medical Research Council. Died science, Winchester College. Mr Reginald William Hale 15 March 2015, aged 74 19 March 2015, aged 84 Died 16 March 2015, aged 65 CChem FRSC Retired. Died Mr Patrick Roche CChem Mr Peter James Wood CChem Mr Michael Anthony Child 28 March 2015, aged 101 MRSC Retired department plant MRSC Retired senior lecturer, MRSC Retired senior analyst, Dr Dorothy Muriel Hall MRSC manager, Courtaulds Acetate Ltd. Llandrillo Technical College. West Yorkshire Analytical Retired. Died 22 March 2015, Died 13 February 2015, aged 85 Died 31 January 2015, aged 80 Services. Died 12 March 2015, aged 95 Mr Edward Joseph Rothery aged 67 Mr Christian Schmidt Hansen CChem FRSC Retired head of Mr Jeremy Nicholas Cook CChem MRSC Registrant, department of chemistry, Dublin CChem MRSC LGC Ltd. Died Richard Baker Harrison Ltd. Died Institute of Technology. Died August 2014, aged 49 19 December 2014, aged 58 8 March 2015, aged 85 Dr Trevor Morgan Cook CChem Mr Dewi Ieuan Jones CChem Dr Laurence Rule CChem FRSC Chairman, British Institute MRSC Retired. Died 29 January FRSC Retired University of East To inform us of the death of Homeopathy. Died 4 March 2015, aged 85 London. Date of death not of an RSC member please contact the Membership 2015, aged 84 Mr Roderick John Livingstone supplied Department on 01223 432141 CChem FRSC Retired. Died [email protected] 3 March 2015, aged 70

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