Rennie Memorial Medal
# 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 (Hons), 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 (10) 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: Royal Australian Chemical Institute

| Year | Recipient |
| - | - |
| 1931 | Rupert Jethro Best (d) |
| 1932 | J W H Lugg (d) |
| 1933 | F Penman (d) |
| 1934 | J E Mills (d) |
| 1935 | W J Wiley (d) |
| 1936 | Adolph Bolliger (d) |
| 1937 | R S Russell (d) |
| 1938 | No award |
| 1939 | No award |
| 1940 | F P J Dwyer (d) |
| 1941 | Francis Gordon Lennox (d) |
| 1942 | W A Rawlinson (d) |
| 1943 | Keith Leonard Sutherland (d) |
| 1944 | D T C Gillespie |
| 1945 | Albert Lloyd George Rees (d) |
| 1946 | Robert Harold Stokes |
| 1947 | J A Mills (d) |
| 1948 | M F R Mulcahy |
| 1949 | John Bryan Willis |
| 1950 | Donald Eric Weiss |
| Year | Recipient |
| 1951 | Ronald Drayton Brown |
| 1952 | A S Buchanan |
| 1953 | J D Morrison |
| 1954 | A J Hodge (d) |
| 1955 | Donald Richard Stranks (d) |
| 1956 | P R Jefferies |
| 1957 | J H Bradbury |
| 1958 | Amyand David Buckingham |
| 1959 | Athelstan L J Beckwith (d) |
| 1960 | M L Heffernan (d) |
| 1961 | Ian Gordon McWilliam |
| 1962 | No award |
| 1963 | Alan James Parker (d) |
| 1964 | T Mole |
| 1965 | P T McTigue |
| 1966 | Donald Walter Watts |
| 1967 | John Hamilton Bowie |
| 1968 | Thomas William Healy |
| 1969 | W K Kitching |
| 1970 | David St Clair Black |
| Year | Recipient |
| 1971 | John A Elix / Thomas Harley Spurling |
| 1972 | Kenneth Neil Marsh / M V Sargent |
| 1973 | Frank P Larkins |
| 1974 | David M Doddrell |
| 1975 | Alan Maxwell Bond |
| 1976 | P J Derrick |
| 1977 | Leo Radom |
| 1978 | W G Jackson |
| 1979 | A E W Knight / F Richard Keene |
| 1980 | No award |
| 1981 | Geoffrey A Lawrance |
| 1982 | Denis James Evans |
| 1983 | L Field |
| 1984 | Michael A Collins |
| 1985 | P M Pashley |
| 1986 | M Banwell |
| 1987 | P A Lay |
| 1988 | Anthony Douglas John Haymet |
| 1989 | D MacFarlane |
| 1990 | Calum John Drummond / Mark G Moloney |
| Year | Recipient |
| 1991 | David James Young |
| 1992 | Craig Jon Hawker / J M White |
| 1993 | Margaret M Harding / C H Schiesser |
| 1994 | S C Smith |
| 1995 | I A Maxwell |
| 1996 | G T Russell |
| 1997 | M A Rizzacasa |
| 1998 | William S Price |
| 1999 | M A Buntine |
| 2000 | Frank Caruso |
| 2001 | D K Taylor |
| 2002 | Stuart R Batten |
| 2003 | Cameron J. Kepert |
| 2004 | Christopher Barner-Kowollik |
| 2005 | Malcolm Macleod |
| 2006 | Michelle Coote |
| 2007 | Stephen Blanksby |
| 2008 | Spencer J Williams |
| 2009 | Sébastien Perrier |
| 2010 | Paul S Donnelly |
| Year | Recipient |
| 2011 | Richard J Payne |
| 2012 | Keith A Stubbs |
| 2013 | David W Lupton |
| 2014 | Deanna D'Alessandro |
| 2015 | Colin Jackson |
| 2016 | Ravichandar Babarao |
| 2017 | Elizabeth New |
| 2018 | Neeraj Sharma |
| 2019 | Debbie Silvester |
| 2020 | Lars Goerigk / Nicholas White |
