John B. Goodenough Award

The John B Goodenough Award is run biennially by the Royal Society of Chemistry and awards contributions to the field of materials chemistry. The prize winner, chosen by the Materials Chemistry Division Awards Committee, receives a monetary reward, a medal, a certificate and completes a UK lecture tour.

Award history

The award, which was originally referred to as the Materials Chemistry Forum Lifetime Award, was set up in 2008. It was named after the materials scientist John Bannister Goodenough, who has made significant contributions to the development of the first random access memory and in the field of Li-ion rechargeable batteries.

Previous winners

The first prize winner, in 2009, was David Sherrington (chemist) from the University of Strathclyde. This prize was awarded for contributions for research into the use of polymers in materials chemistry.

The 2011 winner was Andrew Holmes from the University of Melbourne for research into polymeric materials for optoelectronics and light harvesting.

The 2013 winner was Anthony West (chemist) from the University of Sheffield for significant work into structure-composition-property relationships in oxide-based materials.

In 2015, the award was granted to Professor William David of the ISIS Facility and University of Oxford, "for his development of new theoretical and experimental approaches to powder diffraction and his contributions to the understanding of structure-property relationships in important solid-state materials".