Sir Eric Rideal Award and Lecture

The Sir Eric Rideal Lecture is a late-career or “life-time achievement award”, which recognises and honours an individual who has made a sustained and distinguished contribution to colloid and interface science in the UK. Prior to its establishment by the Joint Colloids Group in 2006, it was known as the Founder’s Lecturer.

Sir Eric Rideal was one of the founders of catalysis and gave his name to the Eley Rideal mechanism. He is known for his work at the Colloid Science Laboratory, which he set up in Cambridge University in the 1930s. Follow this link for a full history of the RSC/SCI joint colloid group medals and the names behind it.

Eligibility: Authority in Colloid, Surface and Interface Science with a professional career of more than 30 years’ duration (after completion of postgraduate study). Candidates need not be UK-based necessarily, but they will have had sustained and significant connections with the UK colloid, interface and surface science community and a marked impact upon work in the UK.
Currently-serving members of the Joint Colloids Group Committee are not eligible for the award.

Award Information

Type of award: Lifetime/career achievement.
Frequency: Annual.
Deadline for nominations: 1st March (annually).
Nominators: CSCG and CISG members.
Contact: Awards Coordinator (see Contacts page)
Further information can be found at this link.
On-line nomination form can be found at this link.

Recipients

1970	Prof J H De Boer, Delft Technological University
1971	Dr B A Pethica, Unilever PSL
1972	M K Schwitzer
1973	Prof J T Davies, Birmingham University
1974	Prof D J Crisp
1975	Prof D D Eley, Nottingham University
1976	Sir Harry Melville, London University
1977	Dr A D Bangham, Cambridge University
1978	Dr D A Haydon, Cambridge University
1979	Dr J A Kitchener, Imperial College
1980	Prof R M Barrer, Imperial College
1981	Prof D Tabor, Cambridge University
1982	Prof K S W Sing, Brunel University
1983	Prof D H Everett, Bristol University
1984	Prof J Th G Overbeek, Utrecht University
1985	Prof R H Ottewill, Bristol University
1986	Prof Sir J M Thomas, Royal Institution, London
1987	Prof J Lyklema, Wageningen University
1988	Prof A I Bailey, Imperial College
1989	Prof J D Birchall, ICI
1990	Prof Sir Sam Edwards, Cambridge University
1991	Dr Th F Tadros, ICI/Zeneca
1992	Prof H Sonntag, Max Planck Institute, Berlin
1993	Prof B J Briscoe, Imperial College
1994	Prof B R Jennings, English China Clays
1995	Prof G J T Tiddy, UMIST
1996	Prof A M Cazabat, College de France, Paris
1997	Prof B Vincent, Bristol University
1998	Prof J Gregory, University College London
1999	Dr T D Blake, Kodak
2000	Prof D Tildesley, Unilever PSL
2001	Prof J Pethica, Oxford University
2002	Prof Helmut Möhwald, Max Planck Institute, Berlin
2003	Prof Brian H Robinson, East Anglia University
2004	Prof Terence Cosgrove, Bristol University
2005	Dr James Goodwin, Bristol University
2006	Prof Eric Dickinson, University of Leeds
2007	Alan Pitt, Kodak
2008	Prof Julian Eastoe, Bristol University
2009	Prof Richard Buscall, MSACT Research & Consulting
2010	Prof Thomas W Healy, University of Melbourne
2011	Dr Robert Thomas, University of Oxford
2012	Prof Geoff Maitland, Imperial College
2013	Prof Jeff Penfold, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
2014	Prof Athene Donald, University of Cambridge
2015	Prof Paul Luckham, Imperial College, London
2016	No award
2017	Prof Daan Frenkel, University of Cambridge
2018	No award
2019	Prof Peter Lovell, University of Manchester
2020	Prof Colin Bain, Durham University
2021	Prof Steve Armes, The University of Sheffield
2022	Prof Bernard Binks, University of Hull
2023	Dr Andrew Howe, AQDOT Limited

Membership

You can become a member by joining one of the two groups:

SCI Colloid & Surface Chemistry Group (CSCG). http://www.soci.org/Membership-and-Networks/Technical-Groups/Colloid-and-Surface-Chemistry-Group

RSC Colloid & Interface Science Group (CISG). http://www.rsc.org/membership/networking/InterestGroups/colloidscience/

The former is open to SCI members only. The latter is open both to RSC members and associates AND to scientists and engineers who belong, either, to a chartered professional or learned body from outside the chemical sciences, or to another chemical society with whom the RSC has entered into an international partnership agreement approved by RSC Council. Non-RSC members of CISG pay RSC a small annual fee to cover administration and postage.

For information on how to become a member of the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) or Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) please see the links below:

http://www.soci.org/Membership-and-Networks http://www.rsc.org/Membership/join/admission/index.asp

Non-members of RSC wishing to join CISG should contact the RSC Membership Dept. (contact details at http://www.rsc.org/Membership/join/admission/Contacts.asp), asking to join the Colloid & Interface Science Interest Group, only, and mentioning their own affiliation. The membership administration fee is £10 currently. In case of difficulty please contact a member of the Joint Committee.