Lennard-Jones Lectureship of the Royal Society of Chemistry
This prestigious lectureship, named after sir John Lennard Jones, is awarded once every two years by the Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics group of the Royal Society of Chemistry Faraday Division to a deserving individual who has made important contributions to scientific fields of interest to the group.
This year, the Lennard-Jones lectureship will be delivered by
Prof. Dr. Kurt Binder (University of Mainz)
and will be titled
" Computer simulations of critical behavior and phase behavior of fluids"
Previous winners of the LJ lectureship include
1982 Prof. J.A. Pople
1983 Dr. L.A.K. Staveley
1984 Dr. N.C. Handy
1985 Prof. J.S. Rowlinson
1986 Prof. A.D. Buckingham
1987 Profs. J.M Deutch and I Oppenheim
1988 Prof. G.G. Hall
1989 Prof. P.-G. de Gennes "Flexible polymers at solid-liquid interfaces"
1990 Dr. A.J. Stone
1991 Prof. W. Gelbart "Overview of self-assembly and self-organisation"
1992 Dr. B.T. Sutcliffe
1993 Prof. B. Widom "Applications and extensions of van der Waals theory of capillarity"
1995 Prof. M.E. Fisher "Criticality in ionic solutions: Debye-Huckel, Bjerrum and beyond"
1997 Prof. D. Frenkel "What van der Waals could have told us about protein crystallisation"
1999 Prof. E. Sackmann "Regulation of cellular processes by the membrane-bending-elasticity concept"
2001 Prof. D. Chandler "Hydrophobicity at small and large length scales: two faces of water"
2003 Prof. J.-P. Hansen "Mixing colloids and polymers: from coarse-graining to accurate phase diagrams"
2005 Prof. G. M. Schneider "The continuity and family concepts for fluid mixtures: Links between experiment, theory and correlation"
2007 Prof. R. Evans "Phase transitions of fluids under confinement:some new perspectives"
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.
The Lennard-Jones lectureship is kindly sponsored by Unilever.