Awards
The British Universities and Colleges Physical Education Association The BUCPEA David Munrow Award in recognition of distinguished services to sports science was presented to Clyde Williams,...
The British Universities and Colleges Physical Education Association The BUCPEA David Munrow Award in recognition of distinguished services to sports science was presented to Clyde Williams,...
International Mass Spectrometry Conference The J. J. Thomson Gold Medal was awarded at the 14th conference in Tampere, Finland, to David Games, head of chemistry and director of the mass spectrometry...
Royal Society of Chemistry The Harrison Memorial Prize has been awarded to Helen Fielding, a lecturer in the department of chemistry at King's College, London, for her contribution to the dynamics of...
Pilkington Prize The 1997 Pilkington Prizes for excellence in teaching were presented to: Martin Cowley, department of engineering; Lorraine Gelsthorpe, institute of criminology; Robin Hiley,...
The Royal Society The following medals were awarded for 1997: Copley Medal: Hugh Huxley, professor of biology at the Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center at Brandeis University, USA. In...
George B. Dantzig Prize The Mathematical Programming Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics have awarded the prize to Roger Fletcher, professor of mathematics at the...
American Society for Nutritional Sciences The Lederle Award in Human Nutrition has been conferred on John Scott, professor in the department of biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin. Professor Scott...
American Society of Limnology & Oceanography The 1996 Raymond L. Lindeman award for the most outstanding paper in English on an aspect of aquatic science went to Chris Freeman, school of...
The Geological Society The society presented medals on June 5 as follows: Wollaston Medal: Douglas Shearman, emeritus professor of geology at Imperial College, London Lyell Medal: Richard Barrie...
Institution of Electrical Engineers The Faraday Medal has been awarded to John Midwinter (below),professor and head of the department of electrical engineering at University College, London, for his...
Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques. Jolyon Howarth, professor of French civilisation at the University of Bath, was awarded the order, established by Napoleon in 1808, in recognition of...
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography The Lindeman Award for the best paper on aquatic sciences by a scientist aged under 35 was presented in Sante Fe, New Mexico, to Chris Freeman, school...
City University, London C. Henderson, professor of petrology, has been awarded the Schlumberger Medal for 1996 by the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain. The award recognises scientific...
Lakatos Award 1996 The London School of Economics and Political Science announced that the winner of the 1996 Lakatos Award is Abner Shimony, professor of philosophy and physics, Boston University,...
Louis Jeantet Prize The 1997 prize for medicine from the Fondation Louis Jeantet has been awarded to the following: Philip Cohen, professor and director of the Medical Research Council protein...