Society rewards long-term contributors
124th SCI Annual General
Meeting Distinguished Service Awards
Becoming actively involved with SCI can be a highly rewarding
experience, allowing Members the chance to influence the direction
of the Society or various aspects of it, enabling SCI to thrive
and flourish.
The 124th SCI AGM presented an opportunity to thank some
of those Members who have invested considerable time and effort
in the Society, by way of the prized Distinguished Service
Awards.
Launched in 2001 – the year the United Nations celebrated
the International Year of the Volunteer – these relatively
new awards offer a chance to applaud the enthusiasm, hard
work and goodwill of longer-serving Members of all component
parts of the Society. They are awarded for distinguished and
sustained service to at least one element in the SCI structure,
such as a Committee or Section, for 10 years or more. The
2005 recipients were:
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Prof Martyn Ford
 Martyn
has been an SCI Member for 35 years, and a committed
member of the Pest Management and the BioActive
Sciences Group Committees for many years.
He was a leader in the move to take the Pesticides
Group away from conventional chemicals control towards
mechanistic and pharmacokinetic aspects of the science,
a practice that he has also introduced into the
activities of the BioActive Sciences Group. Martyn
is currently director and secretary of Cepos in
Silico, a start-up software company supplying molecular
design software to the pharmaceutical and crop protection
industries.
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Iren Jasko
 Iren
joined SCI in 1984, and has made numerous contributions
to the Society’s activities. Over the past
20 years, she has organised many meetings on behalf
of the Glasgow Section and the Construction Materials
Group, of which she is a past chair and currently
secretary.
Since 1991, Iren has been director and technical
manager of Quartz Scientific, a family-owned company.
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Dr David Livingstone
 David
became involved in SCI in the early 1980s when he
joined the physicochemical and biophysical panel
of the Pesticide Group. He was chairman of the Steering
Group for the establishment of the Bio-Active Sciences
Group (set up in 1998), and then chairman and vice-chairman
of both the panel and the Bio-Active Sciences Group.
David has also helped organise a number of successful
Panel and Group meetings including the hugely successful
SCIPharm 2004 and he is part of the organising committee
of SCIpharm 2006. In 1989, David moved to SmithKline
Beecham to work for himself as a consultant and
became a visiting professor at the Centre for Molecular
Design at the University of Portsmouth, UK.
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Prof Paul Luckham
 Paul
was elected to SCI Membership in 1993. He received
the Beilby Medal in 1996, and was a member of the
Awards Committee from 1999–2005. He was part
of Colloid & Surface Chemistry Group Committee
1984–2003 (including acting as Chairman, Vice
Chairman Treasurer and Secretary).
Paul is a professor in particle technology in the
Chemical Engineering Department at Imperial College,
London.
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Dr Henry Warson
 Life
Member Henry joined SCI in 1949, and is currently
a Member of Council and of the London Section Committee.
His past roles at SCI have included chairman of
the West Midlands Section Committee and Member of
the Plastics and Polymer Group Committee, including
several years as Treasurer.
From 1970 to date, Henry has been a chemical consultant,
technical author and expert witness. He has been
a polymer chemist for over 60 years, with over 33
patents as inventor or co-inventor.
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