Rennie Memorial Medal


The Rennie Memorial Medal is an Australian National Award that is awarded annually to a financial member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute with less than 8 years of professional experience since completing their most recent relevant qualification of a BSc, BSc, MSc or PhD, or the equivalent, "for the person who has contributed most towards the development of some branch of chemical science".
The contribution is judged by the research work published during the ten years immediately preceding the award.
Named after Edward Rennie, the medal was first awarded in 1931 to R J Best. The medal is awarded annually, although no awards were made in the years 1938, 1939, 1962, 1980. The medal has on occasion been awarded to two recipients.

List of recipients

Source:
YearRecipient
1931Rupert Jethro Best
1932J W H Lugg
1933F Penman
1934J E Mills
1935W J Wiley
1936Adolph Bolliger
1937R S Russell
1938No award
1939No award
1940F P J Dwyer
1941Francis Gordon Lennox
1942W A Rawlinson
1943Keith Leonard Sutherland
1944D T C Gillespie
1945Albert Lloyd George Rees
1946Robert Harold Stokes
1947J A Mills
1948M F R Mulcahy
1949John Bryan Willis
1950Donald Eric Weiss

YearRecipient
1971John A Elix / Thomas Harley Spurling
1972Kenneth Neil Marsh / M V Sargent
1973Frank P Larkins
1974David M Doddrell
1975Alan Maxwell Bond
1976P J Derrick
1977Leo Radom
1978W G Jackson
1979A E W Knight / F Richard Keene
1980No award
1981Geoffrey A Lawrance
1982Denis James Evans
1983L Field
1984Michael A Collins
1985P M Pashley
1986M Banwell
1987P A Lay
1988Anthony Douglas John Haymet
1989D MacFarlane
1990Calum John Drummond / Mark G Moloney

YearRecipient
2011R J Payne
2012Keith A Stubbs
2013D W Lupton
2014Deanna D'Alessandro
2015Colin Jackson
2016Ravichandar Babarao
2017Elizabeth New
2018Neeraj Sharma
2019Debbie Silvester