Department of Chemistry

13 May 2013

The Novartis Chemistry Lectureship is awarded to scientists in recognition of outstanding contributions to organic and computational chemistry, including applications to biology.

11 May 2013

Joe Farman, the man who discovered the ozone hole, died on Saturday 11th May 2013.

1 May 2013

Professor Michele Vendruscolo has won the RSC Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award 2013.

30 April 2013

The Department of Chemistry is delighted to announce that they have been awarded an Athena SWAN Bronze award.

30 April 2013

Dr Peter Wothers has won the RSC Nyholm Prize for Education 2013

30 April 2013

Dr Oren Scherman has won the RSC Hickinbottom Award 2013.

30 April 2013

Dr Jonathan Goodman has won the RSC Bader Award 2013.

30 April 2013

Professor Matthew Gaunt has won the RSC Corday Morgan Medal 2013.

30 April 2013

Professor Jane Clarke FMedSci has won the RSC Interdisciplinary Prize 2013.

30 April 2013

Professor Steve Ley FRS has won the RSC Longstaff Prize

30 April 2013

Dr Rebecca Melen has won the RSC Dalton Young Researcher Award 2013.

30 April 2013

The Department of Chemistry is delighted to announce that Professor Chris Dobson FRS (Master of St John’s College) has been elected a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences.

25 April 2013

BP Day is the annual opportunity for students in the Materials RIG to stand up and showcase their work in short presentations (final year students) and posters penultimate year students).  19 talks representing 7 groups were all excellent presentations.

25 April 2013

A graduate student view of the Crick Memorial Talks…

14 April 2013

Clare received this prestigious prize at the Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance conference in Asilomar, Pacific Grove, California.

9 April 2013

Subtle quantum effects in the motion of molecules across a metal surface have been detected by Stephen Jenkins and postdoc Marco Sacchi, in collaboration with groups at the Cavendish and at Rutgers University in the US.

22 March 2013

The sixth lecture in memory of Alex Hopkins was held on the 22nd March 2013 in the Wolfson Lecture Theatre in the Department of Chemistry.