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Royal Medals Programme 2013 PRESENTATION OF THE ROYAL MEDALS and THE IEEE/RSE/WOLFSON, JAMES CLERK MAXWELL AWARD 2013 by HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH KG KT 1e Royal Society of Edinburgh Monday 12 August 2013 WELCOME It is a very great pleasure to welcome HRH The Duke of Edinburgh once more to The Royal Society of Edinburgh to present this Society’s Royal Medals and the IEEE/RSE/Wolfson, James Clerk Maxwell Award. These are our highest accolades. They reflect the Enlightenment spirit of the RSE’s Royal Charter of 1783 and its remit to advance learning and useful knowledge. The Royal Medals were created to mark the Millennium and have been awarded annually since then with the express approval of Her Majesty The Queen. This is the ninth occasion on which Prince Philip has presented these Medals. The James Clerk Maxwell Award, also being presented today, is a joint award made with the IEEE and funded by Wolfson Microelectronics plc. It recognises groundbreaking work by those who follow in Maxwell’s footsteps. This Award has been presented here by HRH since it was created in 2007. This year’s Royal Medallists – Sir John Cadogan, Professor Michael Ferguson and Sir Ian Wood – and the Maxwell Medallists, Professor Richard Muller and Professor Richard White, have excelled in their own fields. They have also made profound contributions to the lives of many throughout the world, helping generate a sense of new Enlightenment. It is for this combination of achievements that they are worthy recipients of these awards. We deeply appreciate the interest Prince Philip has shown in the Society during over 60 years of Honorary Fellowship and are particularly delighted to see His Royal Highness here in what has been an eventful year for the Royal Family. PROFESSOR SIR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT MRIA PRSE PRESIDENT PROGRAMME 10.15 am Reception for Fellows and Guests in the Wellcome Rooms 11.00 am Fellows and Guests seated in the Wolfson Lecture 1eatre 11.30 am Arrival of His Royal Highness &e Duke of Edinburgh KG KT Presentation of Medals by His Royal Highness &e Duke of Edinburgh 1e Royal Medals to: Sir John Cadogan CBE FRS FRSE FLSW Professor Michael Ferguson CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci Sir Ian Wood CBE FRSE 1e IEEE/RSE/Wolfson, James Clerk Maxwell Award to: Professor Richard Muller and Professor Richard White 12.00 pm Departures ROYAL MEDALLIST 2013 Sir John Cadogan CBE FRS FRSE FLSW Sir John Cadogan CBE FRS FRSE FLSW Sir John Cadogan is one of the most distinguished and innovative physical scientists of our time. At the age of just 32, he arrived in Scotland to take up the Purdie Chair of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews. After transforming the Department of Chemistry there, he moved to the University of Edinburgh, where he stimulated major changes in research and the teaching of chemistry, including the establishment of a degree in environmental chemistry. This initiative widened the career options for chemistry graduates and attracted more students into chemistry. After ten years at the University of Edinburgh, Sir John moved into the industrial arena and took up the post of Chief Scientist with British Petroleum. There he built up one of the largest and most innovative research and development laboratories in Europe. In 1981, he became worldwide Director of Research and initiated an impressive programme devoted to green issues, including the championship of BP’s solar photovoltaic business. From 1994 to 1998, Sir John was Director General of the UK Science Research Councils at the Office of Science and Technology, during which time the budget was £1.33 billion. Sir John was elected a Fellow of the RSE in 1964, the Royal Society in 1976 and inaugural President of the Learned Society of Wales in 2010. He was made a CBE in 1985 and received a Knighthood in 1991. In 2001, he was awarded the Society of Chemical Industry’s Medal for “conspicuous services for applied chemistry by research, discovery and invention.” He continues to devote a large part of his time to stimulating economic growth and fundamental work in chemistry, medicine and the biological sciences. He was Chairman of DNA Research Innovations Ltd until its acquisition by the Invitrogen Corporation and has just stepped down as Chairman of Fusion Antibodies Ltd, while remaining a Director. It is for his outstanding contribution to organic chemistry through his research, discovery and invention, and for his leadership with the UK Research Councils and industry that Sir John Cadogan is awarded a Royal Society of Edinburgh Royal Medal. ROYAL MEDALLIST 2013 Professor Michael Ferguson CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci Professor Michael A J Ferguson CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci Michael Ferguson is known for his pioneering studies defining the structure and synthesis of surface glycoproteins in the protozoan organisms called trypanosomes, which cause sleeping sickness and other tropical diseases. His laboratory at the University of Dundee is internationally known for its leading contributions to defining our present understanding of the cell surface molecular architecture of these organisms. During the past decade, Michael Ferguson has concentrated much of his effort into defining and validating strategies for the effective translation of basic science towards healthcare solutions for neglected diseases, unmet medical needs and economic benefit. He has played a leading role in founding the innovative Drug Discovery Unit laboratories at the University. Professor Ferguson, along with key colleagues in Dundee, also led the formation of the Drug Discovery for Tropical Diseases initiative which, in partnership with the Wellcome Trust, has the aim of translating outstanding basic research in molecular parasitology into pre-clinical drug candidates than can be developed for clinical trials. He believes in the fundamental importance of working across the biology/chemistry interface and in interdisciplinary research. Michael Ferguson was elected a Fellow of the RSE in 1994 and of the Royal Society in 2000. He was elected a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences in 2007 and in 2008 was made a CBE for his services to science. He was appointed the first Regius Professor of Life Sciences at Dundee in 2013. It is for his outstanding contribution to the field of parasitology, his work in drug discovery to combat parasites, and for his leadership of a world-class team of scientists in Dundee that Professor Michael Ferguson is awarded a Royal Society of Edinburgh Royal Medal. ROYAL MEDALLIST 2013 Sir Ian Wood CBE FRSE Sir Ian Wood CBE FRSE Sir Ian Wood is one of the country’s most distinguished and successful business leaders and enjoys the respect of both Scottish and UK Governments at the highest levels. After graduating from the University of Aberdeen in 1964, he joined the family business, John Wood & Son, a major fishing company in Aberdeen, and became Managing Director in 1967. Seeing the potential of the North Sea Oil business, he started a small offshoot of the family business to service this rapidly growing market. Although the original family business is still one of the largest fishing companies in Scotland, the John Wood Group PLC has grown to become a major international oil services business, with revenues of some $6 billion and employing more than 431,000 people in over 50 countries. In addition to growing and leading one of Scotland’s most successful companies, Sir Ian Wood has made a significant contribution to public life, both in Scotland and further afield. Sir Ian has received many awards and honours over the years. In 1979, he was named Young Scottish Businessman of the Year and in December 1982, he was made a CBE. In 1985, he received the Scottish Free Enterprise Award and in 1994, he received a Knighthood. He has been awarded Honorary Degrees from the University of Aberdeen, Robert Gordon University, Glasgow Caledonian University, Heriot-Watt University and Strathclyde University. In 2000, Sir Ian was elected a Fellow of the RSE and two years later he received the Corporate Elite ‘Leader of the Year Award’ from Business Insider and was admitted to the Entrepreneurial Exchange Hall of Fame. Since his recent retirement as Chairman of the Wood Group, Sir Ian has been chairing a Commission in Scotland, Developing Scotland's Young Workforce, and is also leading a Review, UKCS Maximising Oil & Gas Recovery, on behalf of the UK Government. It is for his outstanding contribution to business and commerce in Scotland through his development, growth and leadership of the John Wood Group PLC, his public service to Scotland in a variety of roles, and for his philanthropy that Sir Ian Wood is awarded a Royal Society of Edinburgh Royal Medal. THE ROYAL MEDALS Her Majesty The Queen awarded the Royal Medals for the first time in 2000. As the Royal Medals recognise achievement in all intellectual fields, it was decided to unify them by commissioning one design for all three medals. Inspired by symbols on the Society’s Coat of Arms, the distinguished designer and engraver, Malcolm Appleby, translated images of the royal crown, radiant sun and stag and deer hound. ROYAL MEDALLISTS 2000–2012 The Royal Medals were presented for the first • Professor Sir Alan Peacock DSC FBA FRSE time in July 2000, when Her Majesty The Queen for his outstanding contribution to Social Science awarded them, in person, at The Royal Society and Public Policy; having achieved international of Edinburgh to: distinction on a range of fiscal issues where he • Professor Sir Kenneth Murray FRS FRSE has enhanced our understanding of key problems for his groundbreaking work in developing a vaccine in both taxation and public expenditure. for Hepatitis B, improving healthcare world-wide. Professor Murray died in 2013. In 2003 HRH The Duke of Edinburgh presented • Professor Peter Higgs FRS FRSE Royal Medals at The Royal Society of Edinburgh to: for offering a key to the problem of the origin • Professor Sir Michael Atiyah OM PPRS of Mass.
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