Durham Professors win prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry awards

Professor Jan Verlet and Professor Jonathan Steed from our Department of Chemistry have been named the winners of Royal Society of Chemistry's highly-admired Corday-Morgan Prize and Tilden Prize, respectively. The Royal Society of Chemistry awards are considered highly prestigious and recognise outstanding achievement by individuals, teams and organisations in advancing the chemical sciences. The awards symbolise the strong impact and superior quality of scientific work produced by our Department of Chemistry academics. Corday-Morgan Prize Professor Verlet received his prize as recognition for his work on electron-molecule reactions. His group have developed innovative methods to analyse such reactions using light and this has allowed them to get new glimpses of how such reactions occur. His research has gained recognition within formation of molecules in the interstellar medium (the material that exists in the space between the star systems in a galaxy) and electron transport chains (essential to biological function). Tilden Prize Tilden prize was awarded to Professor Jonathan Steed for his discovery of special gels as substances for creating new types of crystalline drugs for use in medicines.