Corday-Morgan medal

The Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize is a prestigious award that has been made annually by the Royal Society of Chemistry since 1949 for the most meritorious contributions to experimental chemistry, including computer simulation. The number of awards was increased to two per year in 1964 and to three per year in 1967.

The Corday-Morgan medallists have included many of the UK's most successful chemists. Since 1949 they have been:

*1949 - Derek Barton;
*1950 - Ronald Sydney Nyholm;
*1951 - Frederick Sanger;
*1952 - James Baddiley;
*1953 - John Cornforth;
*1954 - Rex Richards;
*1955 - George Porter;
*1956 - K W Bagnall;
*1957 - G W Kenner;
*1958 - C Kemball;
*1959 - Alan Battersby;
*1960 - R N Haszeldine;
*1961 - Franz Sondheimer;
*1962 - Neil Bartlett;
*1963 - G Sim;
*1964 - H M Frey, A I Scott;
*1965 - John Cadogan, R Mason;
*1966 - Richard Dixon, Malcolm Tobe;
*1967 - Alan Carrington, R. O. C. Norman, John Meurig Thomas;
*1968 - A Fish, F McCapra, D H Williams;
*1969 - Peter Day, M Green, G W Kirby;
*1970 - David Buckingham, D W Cameron, N B H Jonathan;
*1971 - M J Perkins, L F Phillips, P L Timms;
*1972 - Malcolm Green, David Husain, P G Sammes;
*1973 - Jack Baldwin, Geoffrey Luckhurst, J F Nixon;
*1974 - L. D. Hall, Brian F. G. Johnson, A McKillop;
*1975 - Robert J Donovan, J A Osborn, G Pattenden;
*1976 - M R Churchill, Roger Grice, K M Smith;
*1977 - Laurence Barron, B T Golding, J S Ogden;
*1978 - P D Magnus, D M P Mingos, G M Sheldrick;
*1979 - M H Chisholm, G A Kenney-Wallace, S M Roberts;
*1980 - Gus Hancock, Selby A. R. Knox, Steven V. Ley;
*1981 - Christopher M. Dobson, Brian J. Howard, D A Jefferson;
*1982 - Anthony K. Cheetham, R H Crabtree, T J Simpson;
*1983 - David J. Cole-Hamilton, W Jones, W B Motherwell;
*1984 - N J Cooper, S G Davies, A Harriman;
*1985 - W Clegg, Peter P Edwards, C J Moody;
*1986 - A G M Barrett, G Christou, Paul R Raithby;
*1987 - J M Newsam, A Guy Orpen, David Parker;
*1988 - F G N Cloke, Gareth A. Morris, P J Sarre, S G Withers;
*1989 - Michael N R Ashfold, David Clary, M Schroder;
*1990 - D Crich, Patrick W. Fowler, I P Rothwell;
*1991 - David Gani, Jeremy M. Hutson, S Mann;
*1992 - P D Beer, T C Gallagher, D E Logan;
*1993/94 - Vernon C. Gibson, N S Simpkins, Timothy P. Softley;
*1995 - A R Barron, Jeremy G Frey, G F R Parkin;
*1996 - D W Bruce, M J Hampden-Smith, N J Turner;
*1997 - I Manners, D. E. Manolopoulos, D M O'Hare;
*1998 - V K Aggarwal, J P Attfield, D Craig;
*1999 - Kenneth D M Harris, C A Hunter, M D Ward;
*2000 - Colin D. Bain, M J Rosseinsky, J M J Williams;
*2001 - H L Anderson, G J Davies, S M Howdle, P R Unwin;
*2002 - A Armstrong, S Balasubramanian, R E Morris, S P Price;
*2003 - Jonathan Clayden, M W George, G C Lloyd-Jones;
*2004 - Stuart C Althorpe, D W C MacMillan, J H Naismith;
*2005 - Benjamin G Davis, Helen H. Fielding, Philip A. Gale
*2006 - Neil R Champness,Timothy J Donohoe, Jeremy N Harvey
*2007 - Stephen Faulkner, Adam Nelson, David Tozer