The
Lavoisier Medal
Starting
with its VIIth conference the ISBC has
presented the Lavoisier Medal to an
internationally acknowledged scientist for an outstanding contribution to
the development and/or the application of direct calorimetry in biology
and medicine (see details in Thermochimica Acta 219, ix).
The
obverse of The Lavoisier Medal displays
the portrait bust of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) with the
legends THE LAVOISIER MEDAL FOR CALORIMETRY and PRESENTED TO
while on reverse is the famous Lavoisier ice calorimeter together with the
legends ISBC and "THE FIRE OF LIFE" - the title of Max Kleiber's famous book (London, New York 1961) on biological
calorimetry and animal energetics.
Winners
of the Lavoisier Medal
1990:
Ingemar Wadsö / Lund, Sweden
1992: Richard B. Kemp / Aberystwyth, UK
1994: Lee Hansen / Provo, USA
1997: Ingolf Lamprecht / Berlin, Germany
1999: Anthony E. Beezer / London, UK
2001: Lena Gustafsson / Göteborg, Sweden
2003: Erich Gnaiger / Innsbruck, Austria
2006: Mario Monti / Lund, Sweden
Dubrunfaut
Award
In
1996 the Committee decided the Society ought to recognise at appropriate
times the contribution to calorimetric studies of non-calorimetrists whose
work has had an important influence on developing the field. After much
consideration it was decided to adopt the name of Dubrunfaut whose
gigantic calorimetric experiment was probably the first measurement of
microbial heat production (see Thermochimica Acta 309 (1998) ix)
1997:
Edwin Battley / Stony Brook, USA
1999:
Urs von Stockar / Lausanne, Switzerland
Richard
Kemp directing the addition of molasses in the largest ever calorimetric
experiment by Dubrunfaut – the vessel was 22000 litres and contained
fermenting yeast (see above).
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