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Mond made significant financial contributions to support 乐天堂app下载 application of scientific research, founding 乐天堂app下载 Royal Institution's Davy-Faraday Laboratory and funding 乐天堂app下载 production of 乐天堂app下载 Royal Society's International Catalogue of Scientific Literature.
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Ludwig Mond Award Winners
- 2020 - Professor Jeffrey Long
- 2019 - Professor Stuart Macgregor
- 2018 - Professor Warren Piers
- 2017 - Professor Karsten Meyer
- 2016 - Professor Richard Winpenny
- 2015 - Professor Vivian Yam
- 2014 - Professor Gerard Parkin
- 2013 - Professor Christopher Cummins
- 2012 - Professor Douglas Stephan
- 2011 - Professor David Parker
- 2010 - Professor Dermot O'Hare
- 2009 - Professor Christopher Pickett
- 2008/09 - Professor Robert H. Crabtree
- 2007 - Professor C David Garner
- 2005 - Professor Philip P Power
- 2003 - Professor John F Nixon
- 2001 - Professor Malcolm H Chisholm
- 1999 - Professor Ken Wade
- 1997 - Peter M Maitlis
- 1995 - Hubert Schmidbaur
- 1993 - Bernard L Shaw
- 1991 - Norman N Greenwood
- 1989 - Duward F Shriver
- 1987 - Donald C Bradley
- 1985 - Sir Jack Lewis
- 1983 - F. Gordon A Stone
- 1981 - Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson
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