Dr. Navrotsky Receives Rossini Award Medal

February 28, 2005

Alexandra Navrotsky , Director of NEAT ORU at UC Davis, has been elected as the 2006 Rossini Awardee. "The Rossini Lectureship Award, which is made by the IACT, is given in recognition of a significant contribution to the field of thermodynamics." Dr. Navrotsky will deliver the Rossini Lecture at the next International Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics, the 19th ICCT, to be held in Boulder, Colorado.

Dear Professor Navrotsky,

It is my privilege and pleasure to let you know that the IACT Board have elected you as the 2006 Rossini Awardee. I congratulate you on behalf of IACT and on my name for a well deserved distinction.

You will have to deliver the Rossini Lecture at the next International Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics, the 19th ICCT, to be held in Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Michael Frenkel, Designate Chairman of the Boulder meeting will contact you for more details. You will be asked also to prepare a paper to be published in both Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics and Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

Unless I meet you before, I am looking forward to meet you in Boulder.

Yours very sincerely,

Jean-Pierre E. Grolier, President

Cc John H. Dymond, Secretary

Board of Directors R.D. Weir (Canada), J.-P. E. Grolier (France), J.H. Dymond (UK), A.R.H. Goodwin (UK), T. Atake (Japan), T.W. De Loos (The Netherlands), U.K. Deiters (Germany), T.M. Letcher (South Africa), K.N. Marsh (New Zealand), M.A.V. Ribeiro da Silva (Portugal), E. Vogel (Germany), M. Frenkel (U.S.A.), Natalia Smirnova (Russia), Mary Anne White (Canada), H. Yan (China), and W.A. Wakeham (U.K.).

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The following is taken from the IACT webpage at http://fluidproperties.nist.gov/iact/Awards/awards.htm

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The Rossini Lectureship Award

The Rossini Lectureship Award, which is made by the IACT, is given in recognition of a significant contribution to the field of thermodynamics. It is presented every two years at the Biennial Conference, when the recipient delivers the Rossini Lecture. Nominations are accepted from any member of the IACT during a three-month period following a Biennial Conference for this award for the following Biennial Conference. The Award recipients are selected by the vote of the Board of Directors, as specified in the Bylaws of the Constitution, ARTICLE XI, Sections 3 and 4.

Past recipients of the The Rossini Lectureship Award include:

1975 Frederick D. Rossini
1977 Henry A. Skinner
1980 Stig A. Sunner
1982 Edgar F. Westrum
1984 Maxwell L. McGlashan
1985 E. Ulrich Frank
1988 Kenneth S. Pitzer
1990 Gerhard M. Schneider
1992 John S. Rowlinson
1994 Hendrick C. Van Ness
1996 Robert A. Alberty
1998 Stanley I. Sandler
2000 William A. Wakeham
2002 John M. Prausnitz

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