News

Second Royal Society Award for Professor in Chemistry

(16 April 2002)

Professor David Parker (Chemistry) has accepted the invitation from the Royal Society of Chemistry to deliver a Tilden Lectureship in 2003/4.

This award founded in 1939, carries with it a silver medal and a small honorarium and deals with progress in any branch of Chemistry. Professors Jim Feast FRS and Ken Wade FRS of the Durham Chemistry Department have previously received this award, over the past 15 years. Professor Parker was recently awarded the 2001 Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Supramolecular Chemistry.