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NSW Branch
Ollé
Prize
RACI NSW Branch
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School of Chemistry,
UNSW Sydney NSW 2052
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OLLÉ PRIZE 2007
Awarded to Professor Stephen Lincoln , from the School of Chemistry and Physics and the Research Institute for Climate Change and Sustainability at the University of Adelaide, for his book "Challenged an overview of Humanities Stewardship of Earth"
Short Biography: Prof. Stephen Lincoln
Stephen Lincoln is the recipient of this years Ollé Medal for his book "Challenged an overview of Humanities Stewardship of Earth" this timely book provides a comprehensive insight into the challenges facing humanity and Earth in the 21st Century.
It opens with discussion of the domination of all countries and oceans by a growing human population. This is followed by an appraisal of the extent to which water and food supplies will be able to accommodate this population, which may reach eleven billion by 2100. The rapidly increasing ability to change biology and evolution through genomics is considered next and complements a discussion of disease, which is viewed largely as an evolutionary struggle between humanity and pathogens. A seemingly insatiable demand for energy, future energy supplies and the impact of their uses on climate and attempts to ameliorate these efforts are examined. The book concludes with a discussion of the partial destruction of the ozone layer and the international effort to repair the damage.
Stephen Lincoln is a Professor in the School of Chemistry and Physics and the Research Institute for Climate Change and Sustainability at the University of Adelaide. He holds an Honours BSc and DSc from the University of Manchester and a PhD from the University of Adelaide.
He has published three hundred research papers in international journals. He co-authored with Prof. Christopher J. Easton "Modified Cyclodextrins: Scaffolds and Templates for Supramolecular Chemistry" (Imperial College Press 1999) for which the authors were awarded the Olle Prize in 2000. He wrote a second book, "Challenged Earth: An Overview of Humanity's Stewardship of Earth" (Imperial College Press 2006) for which he has just received a UNESCO award. He was awarded the H. G. Smith medal in 2002.
He has held visiting academic positions at the Universities of Kent, Cambridge and Lausanne and Washington State University. Currently, he participates in collaborative research projects with the Australian National University, Flinders University, Princeton University, the University of New Orleans, and the East China University of Science and Technology.
His research activities encompass supramolecular assemblies and devices, smart polymers, and sensor molecules for biological and environmental monitoring. He teaches widely, including supramolecular and environmental chemistry.
He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry and The Royal Australian
Chemical Institute, and is Vice-President of the Asian Cyclodextrin Society.
OLLÉ PRIZE 2008
The NSW Branch invites nominations for the Archibald D Ollé Prize.
Archibald Ollé was very active in the chemical and scientific life of NSW in the first 40 years of the twentieth century, and his wife, who outlived him, left a bequest to the RACI NSW Branch to his name with an annual prize. It is awarded to a member of the Institute who submits the "best treatise, writing or paper" on any subject relevant to the Institute's interests. Examples of previous winners include books and book chapters on key areas of chemistry, as well as critical scientific and technical reviews.
The NSW Branch Committee controls the Prize and has established the following conditions:
- Nominations are invited from candidates themselves or from persons knowing suitable candidates and must be members of the RACI.
- Each nominee shall submit a single scientific work published during the period 1st January 2006 until December 2007.
- Nominations must be in writing, setting out the name, address, academic qualifications and present position of the nominee and be signed by the nominee and nominator.
- Where the work involves more than one author, the nominator should arrange for all the other authors to send an indication of the contribution of the nominee. Though submission of multi-authored works is not discouraged, authors should be aware that in the past the adjudicators have found it very difficult to establish the relative merits of single and multi-authored works in terms of making an award to an individual.
Nominations should be addressed to:
The President
The Royal Australian Chemical Institute, NSW Branch
School of Chemistry
UNSW
Sydney 2052
And must be lodged on or before Friday 28th March 2008.
- In all matters relating to this Prize, the decision of the NSW Branch Committee shall be final, and the Committee may not make an award if, in the opinion of the assessors, the submissions are not of a sufficiently high standard .
The result will be communicated to all entrants and will be published in
"Chemistry in Australia"