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The Founders’ Prize
The Founders’ Prize is awarded biennially to a scientist who has made an outstanding contribution to Polymer Physics in the United Kingdom.The recipient of the award is invited to present the Founders’ Lecture at the Biennial Meeting.
The winner of the Founders’ Prize for 2007 is Alan Windle.The text for his nomination read:
Alan Windle has not only had a distinguished career in polymers, starting from his days in Bristol with Andrew Keller when he made the switch from a metallurgical background, but he has also served the Polymer Physics Group enthusiastically and loyally as chair during the 1990’s. During this time he oversaw a gradual movement away from traditional “hard” polymers to embrace a more modern “soft matter” approach, broadening the appeal to the community, and working closely with the changing face of UK industry. His own work has had significant impacts in computational approaches (for instance to the analysis of X-ray scattering patterns; he was also involved in the founding of Cambridge Molecular, a materials software company), in diffusion (his papers on Class II diffusion are still classics), on liquid crystalline polymers (again with a concentration on the analysis of their scattering) and most recently on carbon nanotubes - a novel type of “polymer”. He was awarded the Swinburne Medal of the Institute of Materials (1992) and elected to the Royal Society in 1997, and the award of the Founders Prize is appropriate recognition of his many contributions to our field.
The previous winners are:
- 2001 - Sam Edwards
- 2003 - David Bassett
- 2005 - Julia Higgins
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