John B. Goodenough Award

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.[2]

• 2009: David C. Sherrington from the University of Strathclyde[3] for contributions for research into the use of polymers in materials chemistry.
• 2011: Andrew Holmes from the University of Melbourne for research into polymeric materials for optoelectronics and light harvesting.[4]
• 2013: Anthony West from the University of Sheffield for significant work into structure-composition-property relationships in oxide-based materials.[5]
• 2015: Professor William I. F. 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".[6]
• 2017: Professor Stephen Elliott of the University of Cambridge, "for his distinguished contributions to the science of disordered materials when applied to chalcogenide glasses and phase-change materials for industry".[7]

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