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It gives me great pleasure to announce, on behalf of the Chem Soc Rev Editorial Board, that the winner of the 2011 Chem Soc Rev Lecture Award is Professor Stephen Leone, Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Chemical Dynamics Beamline and Chemical Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The Chem Soc Rev Lecture Award is given to honour a scientist who has made a significant contribution to their field over the course of their career. The Editorial Board praised Professor Leone’s varied research career, which has been characterised by the development of a great number of novel methods for probing dynamical processes. These have included infrared emission techniques for ion-molecule chemical dynamics, laser single photon ionisation of gaseous species during epitaxial growth and ultrafast soft X-ray generation and probing.

Professor Leone’s award will be presented at a conference later in the year. Details will follow in due course.

Also of interest:
The direct observation of secondary radical chain chemistry in the heterogeneous reaction of chlorine atoms with submicron squalane droplets
Chen-Lin Liu, Jared D. Smith, Dung L. Che, Musahid Ahmed, Stephen R. Leone and Kevin R. Wilson, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1CP20236G

Who has won the 2011 Chem Soc Rev Emerging Investigator award? Find out…

On behalf of the Chem Soc Rev Editorial Board, I am delighted to announce that Professor Cristina Nevado from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, has won the 2011 Chem Soc Rev Emerging Investigator Award.

This annual award recognises an emerging scientist who has made a significant contribution to their research field. The Editorial Board commended Professor Nevado’s contribution to the total synthesis of natural products and new synthetic methodologies, in particular her research on gold catalysis.

Professor Nevado’s award will be presented at a conference later in the year. Details will follow in due course.

You can find out more about Professor Nevado’s exciting research by reading her recent ChemComm communication, which was included in the ChemComm Emerging Investigator issue 2011:

Domino gold-catalyzed rearrangement and fluorination of propargylacetates,  Teresa de Haro and Cristina Nevado, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 248-249