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Making an imPACt Craig Hawker Wins DSM Performance Materials Award ver the last few years, the IUPAC journal Pure and Applied Chemistry has steadily been raig J. Hawker, professor of chemistry, bio- Oreshaped in various ways. One of the most chemistry, and materials, and director of the recent and noticeable accomplishment is the comple- CMaterials Research Laboratory at the University tion of the digital archives. The PAC digital archive of California, Santa Barbara, USA, has been awarded contains all articles published in the 80 volumes since the DSM Performance Materials Award 2008 in recog- 1960. nition of his exceptional contributions to the advance- ment of the materials sciences. Hawker is one of the Document Data Services started this project in fall world’s leading scientists in the field of polymeric 2003, following the recommendation of the Committee performance materials. His fundamental and applied on Printed and Electronic Publication at its meeting research and his dedication to innovative science have during the 2003 General Assembly. The restoration earned him a high reputation and a large following in process included black and white scanning at 600 dpi the academic world. and 300 dpi for pages with color and halftone figures, TIFF conversion to searchable PDF, indexation of the scanned article, and also rebinding of the original paper copies. To keep quality assurance of the archive, all digitalized pages have been reviewed and manually retouched if needed. The resulting files are archived on CD and made available on the PAC website.
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PAC Text Indexed on ChemSpider Craig Hawker (right) receives the award from Professor hemSpider—a free-access service provid- Joseph Put, Chief Technology Officer of DSM. ing a structure centric community for chem- Cists—continues to expand its list of supported An international judging committee, chaired by publishers. In July 2008, ChemSpider added Royal Joseph Put, chief technology officer of DSM, selected Society of Chemistry articles and IUPAC’s journal Hawker from among several candidates shortlisted Pure and Applied Chemistry by an international nomination committee. Hawker to the sources feeding its lit- received the award—which carries a cash prize of erature search. Users can EUR 50 000—from Put at the IUPAC Macro 2008 now conduct Chemrefer text- Congress in Taipei (Taiwan) on 30 June 2008. Speaking based searches of 12 sources on the occasion, Put said “A real paradigm shift took of chemistry literature. place in synthetic chemistry in the past 15 years, which resulted in the building up of well-defined large Providing access to millions functional systems mimicking biological systems. This of chemical structures and was made possible by a combination of very well-con- integration to a multitude of trolled chemistry, noncovalent interactions and bio- other online services, ChemSpider is the richest single technological approaches. Professor Hawker played source of structure-based chemistry information. a vital role in this development, both by opening up new synthetic pathways and by looking into possible www.chemspider.com/blog/iupacs-pure-and-applied-chemistry-text-now- applications in microelectronics and biomedical.” indexed-on-chemspider.html Craig Hawker was born in Australia, where he received his early education and graduated in chem- istry with a First Class Honors degree from the
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University of Queensland in 1984. He went on to study Le VIM Nouveau Est Arrivé! at Cambridge University in the UK, where in 1988 he obtained his Ph.D. From 1988 to 1990 he worked as a fter 10 years in the making, the third edition of post-doctoral research associate at Cornell University. International Vocabulary of Basic and General Hawker started his professional career as a Queen ATerms in Metrology (VIM) is now available. Elizabeth II Research Fellow at the University of The VIM provides a set of definitions and associated Queensland in Australia, a position he held from 1990 terms, in English and French, for a system of basic to 1993. In 1993 he went to the USA again to take and general concepts used in metrology, together up the position of research staff member at the IBM with concept diagrams to demonstrate their relations. Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. Additional information is given in the form of exam- Since 2004 he has held his current positions at the ples and notes under many definitions. This vocabu- University of California, Santa Barbara. His research lary is meant to be a common reference for scientists group there is doing pioneering work on novel poly- and engineers, as well as teachers and practitioners, mers and nanostructured materials for application in involved in planning or performing measurements, areas as diverse as electronics and biomedical and has irrespective of the level of measurement uncertainty focused on the interface between organic and polymer and irrespective of the field of application. It is also chemistry with emphasis on the design, synthesis, and meant to be a reference for governmental and inter- application of well-defined macromolecular structures governmental bodies, trade associations, accredita- in biotechnology. tion bodies, regulators, and professional societies. Hawker has been honored with a large number of international awards, including the 2000 Young This third edition has been approved and adopted Scientists Award from IUPAC and the 2005 ACS by each of the eight Joint Committee for Guides in Award in Applied Polymer Science from the American Metrology (JCGM) member organizations: International Chemical Society. He is editor of the Journal of Bureau of Weights and Measures, International Polymer Science Polymer Chemistry and serves as a Electrotechnical Commission, International Federation consultant to many U.S. and international companies. of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, At the presentation ceremony in Taipei, Hawker gave International Organization for Standardization, IUPAC, an award lecture on “Design of Performance Polymers International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, for Microelectronic and Biomedical Applications.” International Organization of Legal Metrology, and The DSM Performance Materials Award forms part International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation. of DSM’s Innovation Awards Program and was pre- This edition cancels and replaces the second edition sented for the first time this year in cooperation with published in 1993. The full text of the VIM is available IUPAC. DSM grants the award every two years in rec- online at no charge. ognition of scientific work that has significantly con- tributed to the advancement of the materials sciences, www.bipm.org/en/publications/guides/vim.html with special emphasis on polymeric materials.
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