The Porter Medal

George Porter (1920-2002)

The Porter Medal is awarded every two years to the scientist who, in the opinion of the European Photochemistry Association, the Inter-American Photochemistry Society, and the Asian Photochemistry Association, has contributed most to the subject of Photochemistry.
The Medal is named for the late George Porter, Nobel Laureate 1967.

Winners are

1988 Lord Porter (George Porter), UK (Founding medal)
1990 Michael Kasha, USA
1992 Kinichi Honda, Japan
1994 Nicholas J.Turro, USA
1995 J.C."Tito" Scaiano, Canada (Special Medal for London ICP)
1996 Noboru Mataga, Japan
1998 Frans de Schryver, Belgium
2000 Vincenzo Balzani, Italy
2002 Josef Michl, USA
2004 Graham R.Fleming, USA
2006 Howard E. Zimmerman, USA and Hiroshi Masuhara, Japan (Two medals awarded)


New arrangements for the award of the Porter Medal
Since the original committee which administered the Porter medal, Frank Wilkinson, Tessa Godfrey, and David Phillips, are all now retired, a new committee has been formed, comprised of

Prof. David Klug (Chairman)
Department of Chemistry
Imperial College London
Exhibition Road,
London SW7 2AZ UK
d.klug@imperial.ac.uk

Prof. Stephen Roy Meech
School of Chemical Sciences
University of East Anglia
University Plain
Norwich NOR 88C UK
s.meech@uea.ac.uk

Dr Anita Jones
 School of Chemistry
 University of Edinburgh
King's Buildings
West Mains Road
Edinburgh EH9 3JJ UK
a.c.jones @ed.ac.uk

This committee will be inviting nominations for the 2008 Porter Medal in the second half of 2007

David Phillips