Hetherington Prize

The Hetherington Prize has been awarded once a year since 1991 at Oxford University for the best doctoral thesis presentation in the Department of Materials. The first ever prize was awarded to Prof. Kwang-Leong Choy, who went on to become the Director of the Institute for Materials Discovery at University College London and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
The award is almost exclusively awarded to only one doctoral candidate per year, but in two years it was shared.

List of notable winners of the Hetherington Prize

Name	Year	Later appointments	Other awards	Refs
Prof. Kwang Leong Choy	1991	Director of the Institute for Materials Discovery at University College London	Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM)
Prof. Tchavdar Todorov	1992	Professor at Queen's University Belfast
Dr. Lii-Yun Su	1993	Deputy CEO of Hi-P International Limited, Vice President & Managing Director of Elementis
Prof. Mark Miodownik	1995	Head of Materials Research Group at King's College London, Co-founder of the Materials Library	Order of the British Empire, Morgan-Botti lecture, Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, Michael Faraday Prize
Prof. Marina Galano	2003	Professor at Oxford University, Lecturer at Queen's College, Oxford, Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford	EPSRC Research Fellow, RAEng
Prof. Dave Armstrong	2007	Professor at Oxford University, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford	Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow
Prof. Lau Khim Heng	2008	Professor at Monash University
Dr. Katie Moore	2009	Senior Lecturer at Manchester University	The Rank Prize Funds Nutrition Committee Prize, IOM3 Young Person's Lecture Competition
Dr. Nike Dattani	2011	Researcher at Harvard University	Banting Award, Clarendon Award
Prof. Lewys Jones	2011	Ussher Professor of Ultramicroscopy at Trinity College Dublin	Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society