Chemistry International
Vol. 22, No. 4
July 2000
Awards
Milton
T. W. Hearn Wins H. G. Smith Memorial Medal
Prof.
Milton T. W. Hearn, Chairman and Titular Member of IUPAC's Commission
on Biotechnology (III.4) and Titular Member of IUPAC's Organic and Biomolecular
Chemistry Division Committee (III), has won the coveted H.
G. Smith Memorial Medal of the Royal
Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) for 1999. Prof. Hearn has served
as Professor of Biochemistry, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria,
Australia since 1986.
The H.
G. Smith Memorial Medal is awarded annually "to the member
of RACI who has contributed most to the development of some branch of
chemical science". Prof. Hearn was cited for contributing "to
the current, advanced state of application of chemical and biophysical
principles and strategies that underpin the chromatographic and electrophoretic
sciences in biochemical analysis, including advanced procedures and
technologies for the separation of peptides, proteins, and polynucleotides
of commercial importance in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnological
industries". His studies on the structure and function of bioactive
peptides, protein hormones, and growth factors involved in normal and
disease state processes, including biomolecules involved in the regulation
of reproductive function and tumorigenesis, have also attracted much
international attention.