Cardiff experts honoured by the Royal Society

The Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, has today (22 July 2013) announced recipients of its awards, medals and prize lectures, including two leading researchers from Cardiff University. Professor Graham Hutchings, FRS and Professor Peter Wells, CBE FRS FREng FMedSci FLSW have received the Royal Society awards in recognition of their research achievements. Professor Hutchings, FRS FLSW School of Chemistry and Director of the Cardiff Catalysis Institute is awarded the Davy Medal for the discovery of catalysis by gold and for his seminal contributions to this new field of chemistry. The Davy Medal is awarded annually "for an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry". The medal is named after Humphry Davy FRS and was first awarded in 1877. Listen to Professor Graham Hutchings: - Your computer cannot play the audio in your browser. To fix this, you need to make sure both Javascript and Adobe Flash are available.