Roger Taylor Award

Award History

The travel award is in memory of the distinguished scientist Professor Roger Taylor (1935 - 2006), Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sussex. During his career, he published 350 scientific papers, six books, made a significant contribution to the high international reputation of chemistry at Sussex, and was the winner of the RSC Josef Loschmidt prize in 2002.

With the discovery of C60 and the other fullerenes, he was known for research related to the preparation and characterization of novel derivatives of fullerenes, especially those having fluorine, hydrogen, alkyl and aryl group addends; and time and again producing novel structures such as the holey fullerenes, saturnene, triumphene, functionalized dimers and the fullerene trannulenes.

Applications

Applications should be sent to Nassia Tzelepi, Chair of The Roger Taylor Award Committee, at nassia.tzelepi@nnl.co.uk or by post to Research Fellow in Graphite Technology, NNL Central Laboratory, Sellafield, Seascale, Cumbria, CA20 1PG, United Kingdom.

The award is made upon the basis of an appraisal of three documents: 1) The extended abstract or paper as submitted to the conference (only one paper is permitted for the purposes of the award), 2) A short CV (with the date of the award of PhD if applicable) and 3) A commentary provided normally by the candidate's supervisor or close colleague.

Award details

The award consists of an £800 Travel Grant presented at the time of the conference with a certificate. It is a condition of the award that the winner attends the conference and presents their paper either orally, or as a poster.