Strem Chemicals Award for Pure or Applied Inorganic Chemistry

The 2010 winner is:

Daniel B. Leznoff, MCIC
Simon Fraser University

Daniel B. Leznoff (b. 1969, Toronto) received his BSc in honours chemistry from York University in 1992, completing undergraduate thesis research with Dennis Stynes on coordination chemistry and kinetics. In 1990–1991, he was an exchange student at Meiji University in Tokyo where he studied chemistry in Japanese; he has won several provincial and national Japanese language speech competitions. As an "NSERC 1967 Scholarship" and "I.W. Killam Fellowship" holder, he completed his PhD in organometallic chemistry in 1997 at The University of British Columbia with Michael Fryzuk, and was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow from 1997–1999 at the Bordeaux Institute for Condensed Matter Chemistry with Olivier Kahn, studying molecule-based magnetism. In 1999, he moved to Simon Fraser University (SFU), where he is now professor of chemistry. His interests include the synthesis and characterization of heterometallic cyanometallate (especially gold) coordination polymers for materials applications, paramagnetic organometallic chemistry and actinide chemistry, publishing over 70 articles. Leznoff was also awarded the SFU Faculty of Science Excellence in Teaching Award in 2009. He has served on numerous national and international conference organizing committees, is the vice-chair of the CIC Inorganic Division, and serves on the editorial boards of the Canadian Journal of Chemistry and Gold Bulletin. His wife Junko Suzuki and daughters Sayako Rachael and Namiko Elaine tolerate his fascination and enthusiasm for chemistry.

Previous winners of the CSC Strem Chemicals Award for Pure or Applied Inorganic Chemistry  

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Terms of Reference

This award will be presented to a Canadian citizen or landed immigrant who has made an outstanding contribution to inorganic chemistry, demonstrating exceptional promise, while working in Canada. Eligible candidates must have held their first professional appointment as an independent researcher in academia, government, or industry for ten years or less at the time of nomination. Awardees must be members of the Inorganic Division working in Canada at the time of the award.

Deadline: July 2 of every year

Sponsor: Strem Chemicals, Inc.

Award: A framed scroll, an award lecture to be given in an inorganic chemistry symposium at the annual CSC conference, and a lecture tour to one or more Canadian universities that are not in major centers, and whose students normally do not travel to CSC meetings. Up to $1,000 in major travel costs for this tour will be reimbursed on application to the DIC Treasurer; local costs (taxis, accommodation and meals) will be expected to be covered by the host institution(s). Membership in the Institute is not a prerequisite for this award.

All nominations will remain in force for three years, subject to the limit of the eligibility window stated above. Nominators are responsible for keeping the record of the nominee up to date and complete. The award shall be presented annually unless the Committee considers that no suitable candidate has been nominated.