Chemistry Professor receives RSC award

Posted on: 28 February 2007

Professor Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson of the School of Chemistry was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Bob Hay Lectureship at the UK Macrocycles and Supramolecular Chemistry Group annual meeting in Belfast. The prestigious award lecture is given in memory of Professor Bob Hay, one of the pioneers of macrocyclic chemistry in the UK.

This is the first time that this prize has been awarded to a recipient that works outside of the UK. At the same meeting Ms. Buddhie Lankage, who is part of Prof. Sylvia Draper’s research group in the School of Chemistry, received a prize for the best poster.

Prof. Neil Champness (Nottingham) & Prof. Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, TCD