The Peter Smith Medal is awarded biennially to an outstanding early career researcher in any field. The recipient will receive a medal and deliver “The Peter Smith Lecture” to the Society. To be eligible for nomination, the research and/or works must be largely carried out in Tasmania or under the aegis of a Tasmania-based organisation and within the Society’s purview.
For the purpose of the medal, “early career” means between three and a maximum of eight years or eight equivalent full-time years since the award of a PhD, at the time of the nomination deadline.
Further conditions of the award are:
Peter Warnock Smith (1924-2017) was an inorganic chemist, who at the University of Tasmania introduced new research and teaching topics, such as analytical chemistry, industrial and applied chemistry, chemistry for engineers. Smith was a long-term contributor to the RST and was President in 2006.
The inaugural Peter Smith Medal was awarded in 2018.
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2024 Dr Edward Doddridge
2022 Dr Rachel Climie
2022 Dr Vipul Gupta
2020 Dr Frances Sussmilch
2018 Dr L McCallum
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