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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.

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2009 10th Joe Stucki Evolution of the Study of Redox Reactions of Fe in Smectites
2009 9th Paul Nadeau Earth's energy "Golden Zone": A triumph of mineralogical research
2008 8th Roger Parfitt
Landcare Research, New Zealand
Allophane and imogolite: their influence in biogeochemistry
2007 7th Dave Bish
University of Illinois
Phase transitions in 1:1 dioctahedral phyllosilicates; the importance of the interlayer region
2005/2006 6th Alain Manceau
LGIT Grenoble, France
Smectic clays: Nature's own nanoparticles

2004

5th Cliff Johnston
Purdue University, USA
Molecular-scale architecture of hybrid nanoparticles
2003 4th Jeff Wilson
Macaulay Institute
Products, processes and rates of primary mineral weathering 
2002 3rd Victor Drits
Geological  Institute Russian Acad. Sci.
Structural and chemical heterogeneity of layer silicates and clay minerals
2001 2nd Peter Komadel
Slovak Acad. Sci. Bratislava
Chemically modified smectites
2000 1st Alain Plançon 
Université d'Orléans, France
Order-disorder in clay mineral structures