The Ludwig Mond Award is run annually by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The award is presented for outstanding research in any aspect of inorganic chemistry.
The winner receives a monetary prize of £2000, in addition to a medal and a certificate, and completes a UK lecture tour.
[2] The award was established in 1981 to commemorate the life and work of the chemist Dr Ludwig Mond and followed an endowment from ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries).
[1] Mond was born in Kassel, Germany in 1839, and became a noted chemist and industrialist who eventually took British nationality.