Trust medal winners

Olav Smidsrod was born in 1936 and has been associated to the Norwegian Technical University (NTH; later NTNU) since the early 1960's. His main research contribution has been within the field of chemistry and physical properties of biopolymers, including biopolymers of marine origin (alginate, chitosan and carrageenan) and also microbial biopolymers such as xanthan gum.

Vic Morris was trained as both a chemist and a physicist and his postgraduate research was in solid-state physics. As a postdoctoral researcher he held fellowships from the Ministry of Defence, the Medical Research Council and ICI. He joined the Institute of Food Research in 1979 with a brief to introduce molecular biophysical methods into food science.