Hevesy Medal Award

The George Hevesy Medal Award (HMA) is the premier international award of excellence in radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry. It is awarded to an individual in recognition of excellence through outstanding, sustained career achievements in the fields of pure as well as applied nuclear and radiochemistry, particularly applications to nuclear analytical chemistry. Established originally in 1968 by the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry (JRNC), the George Hevesy Medal Award has been given 19 times during 1968-86. This Award has been reactivated in 2000. It is sponsored by JRNC and adjudicated by the International Committee on Activation Analysis/Modern Trends in Activation Analysis (ICAA/MTAA). The Award has no monetary value. The George Hevesy Medal Award comprises an engraved bronze medal and an ornamental scroll.

The names (year) of the former awardees are:

W. Wayne MEINKE (1968), Albert A. SMALES (1969), Ivan Pavlovich ALIMARIN (1970), Philippe ALBERT and Julien HOSTE (1972), Tibor BRAUN and Juraj TÖLGYESSY (1975), Francesco GIRARDI (1976), Saadia AMIEL and Richard E. WAINERDI (1977), Robert E. JERVIS (1978), Vincent P. GUINN (1979), William S. LYON and Max PEISACH (1981), Edward V. SAYRE and Garman HARBOTTLE (1983), Georges AMSEL (1984), Nobuo SUZUKI (1985), Emile A. SCHWEIKERT (1986), Frans DE CORTE (2000), Amares CHATT and Eiliv STEINNES (2001), Enrico SABBIONI (2002), Jeroen J.M. DE GOEIJ (2003), Attila VÉRTES (2004), Nicholas M. SPYROU, Gregory CHOPPIN, Zhifang CHAI (2005), Jan KUCERA (2006), Robert R. GREENBERG (2007), Syed M. QAIM (2008), Richard M. LINDSTROM (2009), Darleane C. HOFFMAN (2010), Peter BODE (2011), Boris F. MYASOEDOV (2012), and Rajmund S. DYBCZYŃSKI (2013), Heino NITSCHE, Susanta LAHIRI and Kattesh V. KATTI (2015), Tomoko M. NAKANISHI (2016), Pavel P. POVINEC (2017), Rolf L. ZEISLER (2018), Xiaolin HOU (2019), Stefaan POMMÉ (2020), Vladimir KOLOTOV (2021), Frank RÖSCH (2022), Melissa A. DENECKE (2023), Elisabete A. de NADAI FERNANDES (2024), Steven BIEGALSKI (2025)

Call for nominations for Hevesy Medal Award 2026

The RadChem conference has enjoyed a long-standing relationship with the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. The RadChem-2026 organisers have the honour to announce that the 2026 Hevesy Medal Award (HMA-2026) will be presented at the 20th Radiochemical Conference scheduled to be held in Mariánské Lázně, Czech Republic during 10-15th May 2026.

Nominations of candidates for the Hevesy Medal Awards 2026 are widely solicited from the international community and may be initiated by individual colleagues or their institutes. The Call was just published online in JRNC and is available at https://akcongress.com/hevesy/. Nominations including all materials must be sent to Dr. Zsolt Revay, JRNC Editor, and received before the 31st October 2025.