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The Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry has given its International Award for Creative Work to Professor Jonathan R Nitschke.
The award is presented to a researcher outside of Japan who has contributed to the development of coordination chemistry through outstanding and pioneering works. It has been given to Professor Nitschke for his work on "Figuring out the rules of material construction via self-assembly."
Jonathan said: "International recognition is an important yardstick by which we are judged as academics. To have foreign chemists cast a net over the rest of the world, and then decide that one person is the exemplar of a trait such as 'creativity', I see as a wonderful honour."
Jonathan will be presented with the award at a ceremony at the JSCC meeting in September, at which he will deliver the plenary lecture. The prize has only been given once before, in 2015 to Professor Paul J Chirik of Princeton University.
The JSSC operates with the aim of contributing to advances in the field of coordination chemistry.