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The George Brown Lecture

Sponsored by the Clay Minerals Group

The George Brown Lecture, inaugurated in 2000, is named after the eminent British clay mineralogist George Brown, one of the founding members of the Clay Minerals Group. The lecture is given at one of the Group’s annual meetings, by a speaker who is invited by the Secretary of CMG, based on advice from the Committee. The lecturer is a clay mineralogist, academic or industrial, recognised as an authority in their particular field, and the lecture is published as a review in Clay Minerals.

Previous recipients of the award:

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2005/2006 Alain Manceau
LGIT Grenoble
Smectic clays: Nature's own nanoparticles

2004

Cliff Johnston
Purdue University, USA
Molecular-scale architecture of hybrid nanoparticles
2003 Jeff Wilson
Macaulay Institute
Products, processes and rates of primary mineral weathering 
2002 Victor Drits
Geological  Institute Russian Acad. Sci.
Structural and chemical heterogeneity of layer silicates and clay minerals
2001 Peter Komadel
Slovak Acad. Sci. Bratislava
Chemically modified smectites
2000 Alain Plançon 
Université d'Orléans
, France
Order-disorder in clay mineral structures