The Rennie Memorial Medal is an Australian National Award that is awarded annually to a financial member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute with less than 8 years of professional experience since completing their most recent relevant qualification of a BSc, BSc (Hons), MSc or PhD, or the equivalent, "for the person who has contributed most towards the development of some branch of chemical science".
The contribution is judged by the research work published during the ten (10) years immediately preceding the award.
Named after Edward Rennie, the medal was first awarded in 1931 to R. J. Best. The medal is awarded annually, although no awards were made in the years 1938, 1939, 1962, 1980. The medal has on occasion been awarded to two recipients.
List of recipients Source: Royal Australian Chemical Institute Year Recipient 1931 Rupert J. Best (d) 1932 J. W. H. Lugg (d) 1933 F. Penman (d) 1934 J. E. Mills (d) 1935 W. J. Wiley (d) 1936 Adolph Bolliger (d) 1937 R. S. Russell (d) 1938 No award 1939 No award 1940 F. P. J. Dwyer (d) 1941 Francis G. Lennox (d) 1942 W. A. Rawlinson (d) 1943 Keith L. Sutherland (d) 1944 D. T. C. Gillespie 1945 Albert Lloyd George Rees (d) 1946 Robert H. Stokes 1947 J. A. Mills (d) 1948 M. F. R. Mulcahy 1949 John B. Willis 1950 Donald E. Weiss 1951 Ronald D. Brown 1952 A. S. Buchanan 1953 J. D. Morrison 1954 A. J. Hodge (d) 1955 Donald R. Stranks (d) 1956 P. R. Jefferies 1957 J. H. Bradbury 1958 Amyand D. Buckingham 1959 Athelstan L. J. Beckwith (d) 1960 M. L. Heffernan (d) 1961 Ian G. McWilliam 1962 No award 1963 Alan J. Parker (d) 1964 T. Mole 1965 P. T. McTigue 1966 Donald W. Watts 1967 John H. Bowie 1968 Thomas W. Healy 1969 W. K. Kitching 1970 David St. C. Black 1971 John A. Elix / Thomas H. Spurling 1972 Kenneth N. Marsh / M. V. Sargent 1973 Frank P. Larkins 1974 David M. Doddrell 1975 Alan M. Bond 1976 P. J. Derrick 1977 Leo Radom 1978 W. G. Jackson 1979 A. E. W. Knight / F. Richard Keene 1980 No award 1981 Geoffrey A. Lawrance 1982 Denis J. Evans 1983 L. Field 1984 Michael A. Collins 1985 P. M. Pashley 1986 Martin Banwell 1987 P. A. Lay 1988 Anthony D. J. Haymet 1989 D. MacFarlane 1990 Calum J. Drummond / Mark G. Moloney 1991 David J. Young 1992 Craig J. Hawker / J. M. White 1993 Margaret M. Harding / C. H. Schiesser 1994 S. C. Smith 1995 Ian A. Maxwell 1996 G. T. Russell 1997 M. A. Rizzacasa 1998 William S. Price 1999 M. A. Buntine 2000 Frank Caruso 2001 D. K. Taylor 2002 Stuart R. Batten 2003 Cameron J. Kepert 2004 Christopher Barner-Kowollik 2005 Malcolm Macleod 2006 Michelle Coote 2007 Stephen Blanksby 2008 Spencer J. Williams 2009 Sébastien Perrier 2010 Paul S. Donnelly 2011 Richard J. Payne 2012 Keith A. Stubbs 2013 David W. Lupton 2014 Deanna D'Alessandro 2015 Colin Jackson 2016 Ravichandar Babarao 2017 Elizabeth New 2018 Neeraj Sharma 2019 Debbie Silvester 2020 Lars Goerigk / Nicholas White 2021 Markus Muellner 2022 Lara Malins 2023 Lauren Macreadie / Christopher Nitsche 2024 Wenyi Li 2025 Dan Preston
See also
List of chemistry awards
References