CBI member, the University of Nottingham was delighted to report that Professor Martyn Poliakoff, Research Professor of Chemistry, was awarded China’s highest scientific honour for foreign scientists, the 2019 International Science and Technology Cooperation Award. The certificate was presented by Chinese President, Xi Jinping.
The award recognises the key role foreign scientists have played in China’s scientific development and reflects China’s increasing effort to diversify its scientific research partners over recent years.
Professor Poliakoff was the only British scientist among the 10 awardees.
Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff joined the University of Nottingham in 1979. Throughout his career, Professor Poliakoff has focussed on super-critical fluids, continuous reactions and their applications in Green Chemistry.
He was knighted in 2015 for “Services to the Chemical Sciences” and received an Honorary Fellowship of the Chinese Chemical Society the same year. Professor Poliakoff was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002 and later served as its Foreign Secretary and Vice-President.
Now in his seventies, Professor Poliakoff continues to travel to China to share his experience and expertise with students at the University of Nottingham Ningbo campus, where he is also a lecturer of BSC (Hons) Chemistry.
Sir Martyn is passionate about passing on his experience to support the emerging generation of young scientists. In addition to his work in Ningbo and the UK, Professor Poliakoff also appears on his own YouTube channel, with over one million followers, where he performs fascinating experiments with all 118 elements of the Periodic Table to popularise basic chemistry.
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To learn more about chemistry, please find a link to Professor Poliakoff’s YouTube channel here.
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