Hevesy Medal Award
Announcement of the 2025 Hevesy Medal Awardee
The Hevesy Medal Award Selection Panel 2025 (HMASP-2025) is pleased to announce that Professor Steven Biegalski, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, has been selected to receive the 2025 Hevesy Medal Award (HMA-2025) in recognition of his significant contributions to nuclear analytical chemistry by developing comprehensive methods for analyzing radioxenon signatures and creating isotopically pure radioxenon samples, supporting global nuclear monitoring efforts and nuclear accident response.
The Hevesy Medal and a Certificate will be presented to Professor Biegalski at the HMA-2025 ceremony to be held at the Thirteenth International Conference on Methods and Application of Radiochemistry (MARCXIII) in Kona, Hawaii, USA during 2025 March 23-28.
The HMASP-2025 consisted of Dr. Zsolt Révay (Garmany, JRNC Editor-in-Chief), Dr. Heather H. CHEN-MAYER (U.S.A.), Dr. Richard M. LINDSTROM (USA), Professor Susanta LAHIRI (India), Professor Pavel POVINEC (Slovakia), Dr. Balázs RÉFFY (CEO Akadémiai Kiadó), Professor Georg STEINHAUSER (Austria), Dr. Gwang-Min SUN (Korea), and Dr. Nóra VAJDA (Hungary). In accordance with the rules of the Award, a secret vote was conducted.
Announcement issued by:
Zsolt Révay
Chair, Hevesy Medal Award Selection Panel 2025 (HMASP-2025)
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
16 November 2024
Obituary - Amares Chatt (1942–2024)
It is our sad duty to inform you that Prof. Amares Chatt, Chatt as he liked to be called, passed away on October 20, 2024. Chatt was the most important member of the activation analysis community during the last decades, an great organizer and mentor, who introduced hundreds of students to NAA.
He served as President of the International Committee of Activation Analysis for 20 years, helping to organize MTAA meetings and sessions on nuclear analytical methods at various conferences. Together with Tibor Braun, the founder of the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Chatt reestablished the Hevesy Medal Award, which he himself received in 2001. He also served as an associate editor for the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemsitry organizing the special issues. As an ambassador of nuclear analytical chemistry, he was in contact with all important laboratories and conferences, visiting many of them every year. This October during the first days of his invited visit to China, he felt very lively and gave several lectures at universities and research institutes in different cities. But in the last days of his stay, he seemed more and more tired and had to cancel his scheduled programs. Death reached him on the flight home. His community-building activities and his cheerful personality will be remembered forever.
Zsolt Révay
in the name of the Editorial Board of Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry,
Akadémiai Kiadó, and the International Conference on Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Announcement of the 2024 Hevesy Medal Awardee
The Hevesy Medal Award Selection Panel 2024 (HMASP-2024) is pleased to announce that Professor Dr. Elisabete A. DE NADAI FERNANDES, Laboratório de Radioisótopos, Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil has been selected to receive the 2024 Hevesy Medal Award (HMA-2024) in recognition of her excellence through outstanding as well as sustained career achievements in applying metrological principles to neutron activation analysis and data mining techniques to support societal and industrial aspects of agronomy.
The Hevesy Medal and a Certificate will be presented to Professor DE NADAI FERNANDES at the HMA-2024 ceremony to be held at the Sixteenth International Conference on Modern Trends in Activation Analysis (MTAA-16) in Budapest, Hungary during 2024 May 05-10.
The HMASP-2024 consisted of Professor Amares CHATT (Canada, also Chair of JRNC Board of the Hevesy Award, and Chair of HMASP-2024), Dr. Heather H. CHEN-MAYER (U.S.A.), Professor Xiaolin HOU (China), Professor Susanta LAHIRI (India), Dr. Balázs RÉFFY (JRNC Board of the Hevesy Award), Dr. Zsolt RÉVAY (Germany, also JRNC Board of the Hevesy Award), Professor Georg STEINHAUSER (Austria), Dr. Gwang-Min SUN (Korea), and Dr. Nóra VAJDA (Hungary, also representing MTAA-16). In accordance with the rules of the Award, a secret vote was conducted.
The Hevesy Medal Award (as founded by Prof. Tibor Braun) is the premier international award of excellence honouring outstanding achievements in radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry. It is named after George (György) Hevesy (1885-1966) who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1943.
The Hevesy Medal Award is given in recognition of excellence through outstanding, sustained career achievements in the fields of pure and applied nuclear and radiochemistry, particularly applications to nuclear analytical chemistry. It comprises an engraved bronze medal (in a presentation case) and an ornamental scroll, which are presented at a major international radiochemical conference occurring in the year of the award. The Hevesy Medal Award has no monetary value.
The Hevesy Medal was awarded almost annually during the period 1968-86 to nineteen distinguished individuals whose contributions had traced and defined the scope and depth of radioanalysis through the prolific postwar years of the nuclear era. Their achievements included pioneering work on radioactivation analysis methodology and applications, the development of radiochemical separation procedures and analytical schemes, radiotracer applications, analytical developments such as substoichiometric isotopic dilution analysis, automated systems and computerized systems, and widespread fields of application. After an interval of 14 years, the Award was reactivated in 2000. It is sponsored by JRNC and administered as well as adjudicated by the JRNC Board of the Hevesy Award.
List of Hevesy Medal Award Recipients (1968-2025)
2025 Steven BIEGALSKI
2024 Elisabete A. DE NADAI FERNANDES
2023 Melissa A. DENECKE
2022 Frank RÖSCH
2021 Vladimir KOLOTOV
2020 Stefaan POMMÉ
2019 Xiaolin HOU
2018 Rolf L. ZEISLER
2017 Pavel P. POVINEC
2016 Tomoko M. NAKANISHI
2015 Kattesh V. KATTI and Susanta LAHIRI
2014 Heino NITSCHE
2013 Rajmund S. DYBCZYŃSKI
2012 Boris F. MYASOEDOV
2011 Peter BODE
2010 Darleane C. HOFFMAN
2009 Richard M. LINDSTROM
2008 Syed M. QAIM
2007 Robert R. GREENBERG
2006 Jan KUČERA
2005 Zhifang CHAI, Gregory CHOPPIN, and Nicholas M. SPYROU
2004 Attila VÉRTES
2003 Jeroen J.M. DE GOEIJ
2002 Enrico SABBIONI
2001 Amares CHATT and Eiliv STEINNES
2000 Frans DE CORTE
1986 Emile A. SCHWEIKERT
1985 Nobuo SUZUKI
1984 Georges AMSEL
1983 Edward V. SAYRE and Garman HARBOTTLE
1981 William S. LYON and Max PEISACH
1979 Vincent P. GUINN
1978 Robert E. JERVIS
1977 Saadia AMIEL and Richard E. WAINERDI
1976 Francesco GIRARDI
1975 Tibor BRAUN and Juraj TÖLGYESSY
1972 Philippe ALBERT and Julien HOSTE
1970 Ivan Pavlovich ALIMARIN
1969 Albert A. SMALES
1968 W. Wayne MEINKE