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Corday-Morgan prize for George Christou
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Mike Chesters
Gets Personal
Chair
We offer our congratulations to Dr. M.A. Chesters. The University of East Anglia, at Norwich, U.K., has announced that Mike has been appointed to a Personal Chair, to take effect from 1 October 1988. Mike Chesters is well known to the catalytic fraternity - he is an active member of the Surface Reactivity and Catalysis Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the U.K. - but most of his work has fallen into the relevant surface science area, especially the vibrational spectroscopy of adsorbed species. He started his research career at Queen Mary College, London, with John Pritchard. After several post-dot appointments, including one with Gabor Somorjai at Berkeley, he joined Tony Tenth’s group at Harwell in 1975. The following year he moved to the University of East Anglia, where Norman Sheppard had already established a group working on the IR spectra of adsorbed species.
Corday-Morgan Christou
Prize for George
Professor G. Christou of Indiana University, U.S.A., has been awarded one of the Corday-Morgan medals and prizes for 1986 by the Royal Society of Chemistry in the U.K. The awards are made to the three British chemists aged under 37 who have published the best contributions to experimental chemistry over the past six years. Although George Christou started his research in the area of bioinorganic chemistry at Exeter University in the U.K., his current research interest include Group V metal sulphur chemistry (in relation to HDS catalyst poisoning) and the nature and mechanism of the action of manganese clusters in the photocatalytic splitting of water in vegetation.
applied
Catalysis
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M.S. Spencer After 30 years in research at ICI, Mike Spencer is leaving the Billingham Catalysis Centre of ICI Chemicals and Polymers Ltd. and will be moving to Cardiff in Wales. He is already a Visiting Professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Wales, Cardiff, where he has been associated with Professor Wyn Roberts’ surface science group. As well as having more time to work with the group, he intends to enlarge his various writing and editing activities, including making regular contributions to News Brief and editing a new book series (see item below). Wayne
Goodman
Some of the nicest work in correlating the performance of reactions catalysed by single crystal and equivalent practical catalysts nas been that of D.W. Goodman, who has been working in the Surface Science Division of the Sandia National Laboratories at Albuquerque in New Mexico, U.S.A. He is now on the move to academia and will be relocating at Texas A &M in September of this year. We wish him well and we hope that the flow of stimujating results and ideas will continue uninterrupted. Surface Group
Reactivity
and Catalysis
The Surface Reactivity and Catalysis Group (SRCG) of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry, in the U.K., is a vigorous body with over 500 members, of whom about 150 are from overseas. The most recent Newsletter from the Group (No. 8) is of more than parochial U.K. interest. Richard Joyner, the founder Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Innovative Catalysis, writes about the formation and the objectives of the Centre. Support
Volume 42 NO. 2 -September
1988
Mike Chesters
Gets Personal
Chair
We offer our congratulations to Dr. M.A. Chesters. The University of East Anglia, at Norwich, U.K., has announced that Mike has been appointed to a Personal Chair, to take effect from 1 October 1988. Mike Chesters is well known to the catalytic fraternity - he is an active member of the Surface Reactivity and Catalysis Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the U.K. - but most of his work has fallen into the relevant surface science area, especially the vibrational spectroscopy of adsorbed species. He started his research career at Queen Mary College, London, with John Pritchard. After several post-dot appointments, including one with Gabor Somorjai at Berkeley, he joined Tony Tenth’s group at Harwell in 1975. The following year he moved to the University of East Anglia, where Norman Sheppard had already established a group working on the IR spectra of adsorbed species.
Corday-Morgan Christou
Prize for George
Professor G. Christou of Indiana University, U.S.A., has been awarded one of the Corday-Morgan medals and prizes for 1986 by the Royal Society of Chemistry in the U.K. The awards are made to the three British chemists aged under 37 who have published the best contributions to experimental chemistry over the past six years. Although George Christou started his research in the area of bioinorganic chemistry at Exeter University in the U.K., his current research interest include Group V metal sulphur chemistry (in relation to HDS catalyst poisoning) and the nature and mechanism of the action of manganese clusters in the photocatalytic splitting of water in vegetation.
applied
Catalysis
-
M.S. Spencer After 30 years in research at ICI, Mike Spencer is leaving the Billingham Catalysis Centre of ICI Chemicals and Polymers Ltd. and will be moving to Cardiff in Wales. He is already a Visiting Professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Wales, Cardiff, where he has been associated with Professor Wyn Roberts’ surface science group. As well as having more time to work with the group, he intends to enlarge his various writing and editing activities, including making regular contributions to News Brief and editing a new book series (see item below). Wayne
Goodman
Some of the nicest work in correlating the performance of reactions catalysed by single crystal and equivalent practical catalysts nas been that of D.W. Goodman, who has been working in the Surface Science Division of the Sandia National Laboratories at Albuquerque in New Mexico, U.S.A. He is now on the move to academia and will be relocating at Texas A &M in September of this year. We wish him well and we hope that the flow of stimujating results and ideas will continue uninterrupted. Surface Group
Reactivity
and Catalysis
The Surface Reactivity and Catalysis Group (SRCG) of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry, in the U.K., is a vigorous body with over 500 members, of whom about 150 are from overseas. The most recent Newsletter from the Group (No. 8) is of more than parochial U.K. interest. Richard Joyner, the founder Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Innovative Catalysis, writes about the formation and the objectives of the Centre. Support
Volume 42 NO. 2 -September
1988