{"id":411,"date":"2014-03-05T09:43:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T09:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blcs.eng.cam.ac.uk\/?p=411"},"modified":"2014-03-05T09:49:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T09:49:11","slug":"liquid-crystal-chemist-wins-akzonobel-uk-science-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"Liquid crystal chemist wins AkzoNobel UK Science Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-413 alignright\" style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; line-height: 24.375px;\" alt=\"Goodby\" src=\"http:\/\/blcs.eng.cam.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Goodby-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Goodby-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Goodby.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BLCS member and past Chairman of the Society, Professor John Goodby FRS, has won the 2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.akzonobel.com\/innovation\/awards\/akzonobel_science_awards\/\" target=\"_blank\"> AkzoNobel UK\u00a0Science Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prof.\u00a0Goodby, who is Chair of Materials Chemistry at the\u00a0University of York, was honoured for &#8220;profound discoveries and outstanding contributions in the fields of self-assembling and self-organizing materials and in particular the synthesis, characterization and application of liquid crystalline materials which are used in numerous high technology applications, including computer and imaging displays, sensors, surfaces coatings, films and adhesives&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-412 alignright\" alt=\"AkzoNobel\" src=\"http:\/\/blcs.eng.cam.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/AkzoNobel-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>See also:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.akzonobel.com\/innovation\/awards\/akzonobel_science_awards\/akzonobel_uk_science_award\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">AkzoNobel website<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.akzonobel.com\/innovation\/awards\/akzonobel_science_awards\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/news\/2014\/quality\/akzonobel-award\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of York news website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLCS member and past Chairman of the Society, Professor John Goodby FRS, has won the 2014 AkzoNobel UK\u00a0Science Award. Prof.\u00a0Goodby, who is Chair of Materials Chemistry at the\u00a0University of York, was honoured for &#8220;profound discoveries and outstanding contributions in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/?p=411\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","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\/411","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}