Hickinbottom Award

The 2014 award medal

The Hickinbottom Award (also referred to as the Hickinbottom Fellowship) is awarded annually by the Royal Society of Chemistry for contributions in the area of organic chemistry from researchers under the age of 35. The prize winner receives a monetary award and will complete a lecture tour within the UK.^[1] The winner is chosen by the awards committee of the Royal Society of Chemistry's organic division.

Award history

The award was established by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1979 following Wilfrid Hickinbottom's bequest. Hickinbottom was noted for supporting high standards in experimental chemistry.

Part of the monetary award is the Briggs scholarship, which was funded following a bequest from Lady Alice Lilian Thorpe, William Briggs' daughter.^[1]

Previous recipients

The award was first granted in 1981 to Steven Ley and Jeremy Sanders.^[2][3]

Source: ^[4]

• 1981/1982 - Steven V Ley, Jeremy K M Sanders .
• 1982/1983 - E J Thomas
• 1983/1984 - Philip J Kocienski
• 1984/1985 - Stephen G. Davies
• 1985/1986 - Richard John Kenneth Taylor
• 1986/1987 - Christopher J Moody
• 1987/1988 - John A Robinson
• 1988/1989 - David Parker
• 1989/1990 - Ian Paterson
• 1990/1991 - Timothy Charles Gallagher
• 1991/1992 - Chris Abell
• 1992/1993 - D Gani, P C B Page
• 1993/1994 - Nigel Simon Simpkins
• 1994/1995 - Richard F W Jackson
• 1996/1997 - Varinder Kumar Aggarwal, Susan E Gibson
• 2000/2002 - Guy Charles Lloyd-Jones
• 2006/2008 - Jonathan Paul Clayden
• 2009 - Gregory Challis, University of Warwick
• 2010 - Matthew Clarke, University of St Andrews
• 2011 - Hon Lam, University of Edinburgh
• 2012 - Dr Rachel O'Reilly, University of Warwick
• 2013 - Dr Oren Scherman, University of Cambridge
• 2014 - Dr Stephen Goldup, Queen Mary, University of London.^[5]
• 2015 - Dr John Bower, University of Bristol^[6]
• 2016 - Dr Stephen Thomas, University of Edinburgh

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