The George Hevesy Medal Award is the premier international award of excellence in radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry. It is awarded to an individual in recognition of excellence through outstanding, sustained career achievements in the fields of pure as well as applied nuclear and radiochemistry, particularly applications to nuclear analytical chemistry. Established originally in 1968 by the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry (JRNC), the George Hevesy Medal Award has been given 19 times during 1968-86. This Award has been reactivated in 2000. It is sponsored by JRNC and adjudicated by the International Committee on Activation Analysis/Modern Trends in Activation Analysis (ICAA/MTAA). The Award has no monetary value. The George Hevesy Medal Award comprises an engraved bronze medal and an ornamental scroll.
The names (year) of the former awardees are: W. Wayne MEINKE (1968), Albert A. SMALES (1969), Ivan Pavlovich ALIMARIN (1970), Philippe ALBERT and Julien HOSTE (1972), Tibor BRAUN and Juraj TÖLGYESSY (1975), Francesco GIRARDI (1976), Saadia AMIEL and Richard E. WAINERDI (1977), Robert E. JERVIS (1978), Vincent P. GUINN (1979), William S. LYON and Max PEISACH (1981), Edward V. SAYRE and Garman HARBOTTLE (1983), Georges AMSEL (1984), Nobuo SUZUKI (1985), Emile A. SCHWEIKERT (1986), Frans DE CORTE (2000), Amares CHATT and Eiliv STEINNES (2001), Enrico SABBIONI (2002), Jeroen J.M. DE GOEIJ (2003), Attila VÉRTES (2004), Nicholas M. SPYROU, Gregory CHOPPIN, Zhifang CHAI (2005), Jan KUÈERA (2006), Robert R. GREENBERG (2007), Syed M. QAIM (2008), and Richard M. LINDSTROM (2009).
The Organising Committee of RadChem 2010 congratulates Professor Darleane C. HOFFMAN (hoffman@lbl.gov), Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A., with her being selected to receive the Hevesy Medal Award 2010 for her seminal contributions to radioanalytical chemistry over the past sixty years, including the discovery of 244Pu in nature, spontaneous nuclear fission via symmetric products, and the discovery of the heaviest elements. The full text of the respective Announcement can be found here.
The George Hevesy Medal Award 2010 was planned to be presented at the opening
session of the 16th Radiochemical Conference (RadChem-2010) in Marianske Lazne, Czech Republic on the 19th April 2010.
From the reasons beyond the control of both the International Committee on Activation Analysis/Modern Trends in Activation Analysis (ICAA/MTAA), that adjudicates the medal, and the RadChem 2010 organisers, the ICAA/MTAA, by its decission of the 8th March 2010, had to cancel the presentation of the medal at RadChem 2010.
The revised Announcement can be found here.