SCI HONORARY PRESIDENT John Beacham has been awarded the Lampitt Medal by the Society. The medal was presented by Sandy Gray, who has since been elected chair of SCI's board of trustees, at a celebratory reception and dinner held in Warrington, Cheshire, UK in June 2007.
John's early education and first degree in chemistry were taken in London and were followed by a PhD at the University of Liverpool and a post-doctorate research fellowship, as a Fulbright Scholar, at the University of Pittsburgh, US. He then returned to the UK and in 1968 joined ICI at Runcorn to begin a long and distinguished career, finally retiring from ICI in 1998. Very soon after that, he was …
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