{"id":1250,"date":"2020-02-07T11:46:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T11:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blcs.eng.cam.ac.uk\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2026-01-23T12:01:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:01:30","slug":"new-design-for-gray-and-hilsum-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"New Design for Gray and Hilsum Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In approximately a year we will have to purchase a new batch of Gray and Hilsum medals.\u00a0 This seems a good opportunity to reflect on how we wish to honour our colleagues for their distinguished work in liquid crystal research (see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/?page_id=55\">Gray Medal<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/?page_id=65\">Hilsum Medal<\/a>\u00a0for details of the two awards). \u00a0\u00a0The current award consists of a silver plated medal.\u00a0 Liquid crystals are objects of extraordinary beauty and we were wondering whether we could honour our prize winners by offering them an artefact that reflected their multi-coloured and multi-form nature, instead of a medal.\u00a0 We do not have any particular object in mind, it could be a glass sculpture, a flat surface, e.g. painting or enamel, or something else entirely.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When designing the object, please keep in mind that it has to be reproduceable, i.e. think about how that should be done.<\/li>\n<li>The artefact should still be roughly the size of a medal, therefore not bigger than 10 cm in diameter, and not be much higher than 5 cm.<\/li>\n<li>Ideally we should be able to add the name of the recipient easily.<\/li>\n<li>If possible give an estimate about the production cost.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The design will be exhibited at the BLCS conference in Aberdeen and during the private view (drinks will be involved) everyone can vote for a design.<\/p>\n<p>Get creative!<\/p>\n<p>Susanne and Giampaolo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In approximately a year we will have to purchase a new batch of Gray and Hilsum medals.\u00a0 This seems a good opportunity to reflect on how we wish to honour our colleagues for their distinguished work in liquid crystal research &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/?p=1250\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}