Victor K. LaMer Award

for graduate research in colloid and surface chemistry

Victor K. LaMer was born in 1895 in Leavenworth, Kansas, and died in 1966 while attending a scientific meeting in Nottingham, England. High-spirited and ebullient, he was an enthusiast for science, an infectious quality he transmitted to his students. He served as an Army lieutenant in World War I and his war-related research during World War II was recognized by the awarding of the Presidential Certificate of Merit.

He was the editor of the Journal of Colloid Science (now the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science) from its founding in 1946 until he was succeeded by Kerker in 1965. In addition to his seminal work on colloids, his fundamental contributions to physical chemistry have found their way into every textbook and university course on that subject.

The Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry of the American Chemical Society presents the Victor K. LaMer award annually at the ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium. The award is for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis accepted by a US or Canadian university during the three year period prior to the award year.

$3000 PRIZE

ELIGIBILITY:

The award is for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis accepted by a US or Canadian university during the three-year period beginning September 1st, three years ago, to August 31st of the current year. Previous years' nominations may be renewed or appended with an updated letter of nomination.

NOMINATION:

Nomination may be made by the thesis advisor or anyone familiar with the nominee's work. In addition to the nomination letter, the nomination packet should contain five copies of the thesis, along with a supporting letter and biography of the nominee. Five copies of all material, including thesis and supporting documentation, are required. Incomplete nominations may jeopardize an otherwise outstanding nomination.

CRITERIA:

1. The judges will consider originality, significance, quality and other criteria normally accepted in evaluation of scientific work.

2. Special attention will be paid to the contribution of the student as distinct from the contribution of the professor. The nomination should clearly differentiate the two efforts.

3. The potential and promise of the student as a future investigator will be considered. Therefore, achievement by the student prior to and after completion of the thesis may be discussed. Copies (five) of papers published after the thesis will be helpful.

AWARD RECIPIENTS

1970	Charles W. Querfeld	Department of Physics	Clarkson College of Technology
1971	Edward McCafferty	Department of Chemistry	Lehigh University
1972	Donald E. Brooks	Department of Biochemistry	University of Oregon
1973	W. Henry Weinberg	Department of Chemical Engineering	University of California Berkeley
1974	Stephen L. Brenner	Department of Chemistry	Indiana University
1975	Michele Flicker	Department of Chemistry	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1976	Felix T. Hong	Department of Biophysics	Rockefeller University
1977	Hung Dah Shih	Department of Materials Science	SUNY, Stony Brook
1978	Frederick A. Putnam	Department of Chemical Engineering	Carnegie-Mellon University
1979	Eduardo D. Glandt	Department of Chemical Engineering	University of Pennsylvania
1980	Wilson Ho	Department of Physics	University of Pennsylvania
1981	Michel Deeba	Department of Chemistry	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1982	Mark A. Barteau	Department of Chemical Engineering	Stanford University
1983	David G Welkie	Department of Materials Science	University of Wisconsin-Madison
1984	Jeffry Harwell	Department of Petroleum Engineering	University of Texas, Austin
1985	Syed Qutubbuddin	Department of Chemical Engineering	Caregie-Mellon University
1986	Manoj K. Chaudhury	Department of Chemical Engineering	SUNY, Buffalo
1987	Peter S. Kirlin	Department of Chemical Engineering	University of Delaware
1988	James P. Ebel	Department of Chemical Engineering	Carnegie-Mellon University
1989	John M. Vohs	Department of Chemical Engineering	University of Delaware
1990	Andrea K. Myers-Beaghton	Department of Chemical Engineering	Princeton University
1991	Antonios G. Mikos	Department of Chemical Engineering	Purdue Universtiy
1992	Andrew D. Johnson	Department of Chemistry	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1993	Robert D. Tilton	Department of Chemical Engineering	Stanford University
1994	Paul E. Laibinis	Department of Chemistry	Harvard University
1995	Vicki L. Colvin	Department of Chemistry	University of California Berkeley
1996	Frank M. Zimmerman	Department of Physics	Cornell University
1997	John Levins	Department of Chemical Engineering	University of Pennsylvania
1998	Darrell Velegol	Department of Chemical Engineering	Carnegie Mellon University
1999	Younan Xia	Department of Chemistry	Harvard University
2000	Yunfeng Lu	Department of Chemical Engineering	University of New Mexico
2001	Garth J. Simpson	Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry	University of Colorado
2002	Christopher D. Zangmeister	Department of Chemistry	University of Arizona
2003	Teri Wang Odom	Department of Chemistry	Harvard University
2004	James E. Smay	Department of Materials Science and Engr.	University of Illinois
2005	Christy L. Haynes	Department of Chemistry	Northwestern University
2006	Jwa-Min Nam	Department of Chemistry	Northwestern University
2007	Amanda J. Haes	Department of Chemistry	Northwestern University
2008	Ali Khademhosseini	Department of Chemical Engineering	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2009	Liangfang Zhang	Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engr.	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2010	Daeyeon Lee	Department of Chemcial Engineering	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2011	Matthew Helgeson	Department of Chemical Engineering	University of Delaware