John H Knox (1928) was a pioneer in gas chromatography having demonstrated its first use for quantitation in the field of gas kinetics. In 1964 JHK carried out early studies in the fundamental aspects of band spreading in liquid chromatography when on a visiting fellowship with Prof. J C Giddings. This work formed the basis for the "Knox equation". In 1972 John H Knox was awarded a grant from the Wolfson Foundation this initiated the Wolfson Liquid Chromatography Unit (WLCU). This in turn lead to the development of the microparticulate packing materials for LC that are now marketed under the tradename Hypersil. An entirely new packing material was subsequently developed by WLCU, namely Porous Graphitic Carbon. It is the only porous graphite which has become commercially available. Other developments made by John H Knox and his research group were early work on ion-pair chromatography, work on the separation of a range of drugs and metabolites with Jurand, advances in theory of band spreading in exclusion chromatography with McLennan, in the theory of overloading in preparative chromatography and finally benchmark papers on Capillary Electrochromatography (CEC). Throughout his career John H Knox has been an innovator and a pioneer in the development of modern high performance chromatographic methods: GC, HPLC, CEC. He has been active in forming close contacts with commercial organistaions which have led to the development of a range of high quality commercial products. JHK became a Fellow or the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1973 and of the Royal Society of London in 1984.

The Award

Objective

To honour individuals deserving special recognition of their innovation or influential work in the field of Separation Science.

Eligibility

Anyone, Industrial or Academic, who is working or has worked in the field of separation science.

Criteria of Award

Innovative, influential work in the area of separation science, e.g. recognised excellence in development, application, training and/or dissemination of information and results.

Announcement and Publicity of the Knox Medal

Calls for applications will be made via RSC newsletters, website, e-mail and appropriate Journals.

Nomination and Selection Process

Nomination for award is via an open nomination system from within the scientific community. A nominee must be proposed and seconded by separate individual, who must each produce a one-page justification for the award that meets the defined criteria. Self-nominations will not be accepted.

Any nominations submitted for award will be decided upon, for their suitability, relevance and or merit, in line with the criteria of award, by the Separation Science Group committee at the May committee meeting. The decision of this group is final.

Frequency of the Award

The award will be infrequent, the timing of the award being governed by candidacy and opportunity to award at an appropriate meeting.

The Award

The medal will be presented to the designated recipient at an appropriate Scientific meeting together with a Certificate of Award signed by the Chair of the Separation Science Group and Chair of the Analytical Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

The Chair of RSC Separation Science Group, or his designated deputy, will present the award.

The recipient would, normally, be expected to give a presentation of their work.

The award will be awarded in 2009, at the Desty memorial Lecture.

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The first recipient is Pat Sandra

The award will be awarded at the 2009 Desty memorial Lecture.