Life Achievement Awardees list

June 3, 2019

Life Achievement Awardees

The ISGS Life Achievement Award honors the life time contribution of a man or a woman to enriching sol-gel science. Here we report the list of the Life Achievement Awardees so far:

2005 Prof. H. Schmidt
2007 Prof. J. Livage and Prof. S. Sakka
2009 Prof. J. D. Mackenzie
2011 Prof. M. Aergerter and Prof. T. Minami
2013 Prof. D. Avnir
2015 Prof. C. Sanchez
2017 Prof. C. J. Brinker and Prof. L.C. Klein
2019 Prof. K. Kuroda and Prof. M. Guglielmi

ISGS is an international, interdisciplinary, not-for-profit organization whose primary purpose and objective is the advancement of sol-gel science and technology. ISGS aims are both to represent the particular needs and aspirations of the international sol-gel community and to support this sol-gel community.

Since the inception of the highly successful Sol-Gel Workshop series in Padova during 1981, sol-gel science and technology has evolved from its origins within traditional materials science (mainly glass and ceramics) to become an extraordinarily multidisciplinary area of research, spanning chemistry, physics, biology, materials science and nanotechnology.

ISGS, grouping of scientists who are interested in sol-gel science and technology at the begining, evolved over time in a professional, fully functional, scientific society.