The CCDC Chemical Crystallography Prize for Younger Scientists 2009 has been awarded to Dr Hazel Sparkes from Durham University. Hazel will be presented with the prize and will give a lecture entitled "Exploiting charge density – insights into structure, bonding and reactivity" at the BCA Spring Meeting in Loughborough (on Wednesday 22nd April, 2.30pm).
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