Ludwig Mond Award

Ludwig Mond Award
Awarded for	Contributions to inorganic chemistry
Sponsored by	Royal Society of Chemistry
Date	1981 (1981)
Country	United Kingdom (international)
Reward(s)	£2000

The Ludwig Mond Award is run annually by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The award is presented for outstanding research in any aspect of inorganic chemistry. The winner receives a monetary prize of £2000, in addition to a medal and a certificate, and completes a UK lecture tour. ^[1] The winner is chosen by the Dalton Division Awards Committee.

In 2020 the Ludwig Mond Award was merged with the Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry to form the Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry. ^[2]

Award History

The award was established in 1981 to commemorate the life and work of the chemist Dr Ludwig Mond and followed an endowment from ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries). ^[1] Mond was born in Kassel, Germany in 1839, and became a noted chemist and industrialist who eventually took British nationality. ^[3]

Recipients

Source: ^{[4] [5]}

• 1981 (1981): Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson
• 1983 (1983): F. Gordon A. Stone
• 1985 (1985): Sir Jack Lewis
• 1987 (1987): Donald Charlton Bradley
• 1989 (1989): Duward F. Shriver  [ Wikidata ]
• 1991 (1991): Norman N. Greenwood
• 1993 (1993): Bernard L. Shaw
• 1995 (1995): Hubert Schmidbaur  [ de ]
• 1997 (1997): Peter M. Maitlis
• 1999 (1999): Kenneth Wade
• 2001 (2001): Malcolm H. Chisholm
• 2003 (2003): John Forster Nixon  [ Wikidata ]
• 2005 (2005): Philip P. Power
• 2007 (2007): David Garner
• 2008 (2008): Robert H. Crabtree, Yale University
• 2009 (2009): Christopher Pickett, University of East Anglia
• 2010 (2010): Dermot O'Hare  [ Wikidata ], University of Oxford
• 2011 (2011): David Parker, Durham University
• 2012 (2012): Douglas Stephan, University of Toronto
• 2013 (2013): Christopher Cummins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 2014 (2014): Gerard Parkin, Columbia University
• 2015 (2015): Vivian Yam, The University of Hong Kong ^[6]
• 2016 (2016): Richard Winpenny, University of Manchester
• 2017 (2017): Karsten Meyer, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
• 2018 (2018): Warren Piers  [ Wikidata ], University of Calgary
• 2019 (2019): Stuart Macgregor (scientist)  [ Wikidata ], Heriot-Watt University
• 2020 (2020): Jeffrey Long, University of California, Berkeley
• 2021 (2021): Holger Braunschweig, University of Würzburg
• 2022 (2022): Jonathan Sessler, The University of Texas at Austin
• 2023 (2023): Eduardo Peris  [ Wikidata ], Universitat Jaume
• 2024 (2024): Euan Brechin  [ Wikidata ], University of Edinburgh

See also

• List of chemistry awards

References

1. "Royal Society of Chemistry Ludwig Mond Award".
2. "Ludwig Mond Award".
3. "Mond, Ludwig".
4. "Ludwig Mond Award". Royal Society of Chemistry. 10 November 2020. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
5. "Dalton open prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry - previous winners". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 2025-05-15.
6. "RSC Ludwig Mond Award 2015 Winner". Royal Society of Chemistry. 5 May 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2015.