The Lennard Jones Lectureship
This lectureship, named after sir John Lennard Jones , is awarded once every two years by the Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics group (SMTG) to a deserving individual who has made important contributions to scientific fields of interest to the group. The winner is expected to deliver the Lennard Jones lecture at a venue and time to be determined by the SMTG. Currently the lectureship is sponsored by Unilever Research .Previous Winners include
1982 Prof. J.A. Pople (Joint SMTG / TCG)
1983 Dr. L.A.K. Staveley (SMTG)
1984 Dr. N.C. Handy (TCG)
1985 Prof. J.S. Rowlinson (SMTG)
1986 Prof. A.D. Buckingham (TCG)
1987 Profs. J.M Deutch and I Oppenheim (SMTG)
1988 Prof. G.G. Hall (TCG)
1989 Prof. P.-G. de Gennes (SMTG) Flexible polymers at solid-liquid interfaces
1990 Dr. A.J. Stone (TCG)
1991 Prof. W. Gelbart (SMTG) Overview of self-assembly and self-organisation
1992 Dr. B.T. Sutcliffe (TCG)
1993 Prof. B. Widom (SMTG) Applications and extensions of van der Waals theory of capillarity
1995 Prof. M.E. Fisher (SMTG) Criticality in ionic solutions: Debye-Huckel, Bjerrum and beyond
1997 Prof. D. Frenkel (SMTG) What van der Waals could have told us about protein crystallisation
1999 Prof. E. Sackmann (SMTG) Regulation of cellular processes by the membrane-bending-elasticity concept
2001 Prof. D. Chandler (SMTG) Hydrophobicity at small and large length scales: two faces of water
2003 Prof. J.-P. Hansen (SMTG) Mixing Colloids and Polymers: from Coarse-graining to Accurate Phase Diagrams
Originally, the Lennard-Jones lectureship was awarded annually, and
alternated between the Theoretical Chemistry Group (TCG) and the
Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics Group (SMTG) of the RSC's
Faraday Division. Since 1993, however, it has been awarded biennially
by the SMTG.