Professor Steve Ley FRS has won the RSC Longstaff Prize
"The Longstaff Prize is given to an RSC member who has done the most to advance the science of chemistry.
This prize was instituted to commemorate Dr George Dixon Longstaff (1799-1892), a founding fellow and benefactor of the RSC.
Dr Longstaff was born in Durham and worked as a chemist in both Glasgow and Edinburgh, receiving his MD at Edinburgh University.
He led a varied career as an academic and industrial chemist, including a spell in America as the consulting chemist for the Place Gold Mines Company.
As well as being a founding fellow of the Chemical Society of London (later to become the RSC), he was also Vice-President twice (1853-1856 and 1876-1877).
Prize winner receives £5000, a medal and a certificate." ©Royal Society of Chemistry.