The Award History
Paolo Franzosini, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Pavia, Italy was an enthusiastic supporter of the Solubility Data Project. He had almost completed Volume 33 of the Solubility Data Series when he died suddenly on the 24th January 1985. His colleagues Paolo Ferloni, Alberto Schiraldi, and Giorgio Spinolo efficiently completed this volume.
Professor Franzosini’s wife and daughter, with the encouragement of his colleagues, very generously donated the payments for Volume 33 to the old IUPAC Solubility Data Commission (IUPAC Commission V.8) and in 1988, under a proposal of A. S. Kertes, the Paolo Franzosini Endowment Fund was created.
The Franzosini Award was established in 1988, during the 14th annual meeting of the Solubility Data Commission (Commission V.8) held in Guildford, Surrey, in conjunction with the 3rd International Symposium on Solubility Phenomena (ISSP).
The Franzosini Award was established to recognize promising young contributors to the Solubility Data Project (SDP) and provide some support to allow the recipient to attend, in even years, the International Symposium on Solubility Phenomena (ISSP) and the meetings of the Solubility Data Commission, and in odd years the annual meeting of the Solubility Data Commission (IUPAC Commission V.8).
The IUPAC restructuring of 2000 led to the replacement of the former Solubility Data Commission (IUPAC Commission V.8) by the Subcommittee on Solubility and Equilibrium Data (SSED). At its 8th meeting, held in 2009 in Innsbruck, Austria, the SSED revised the terms of the award, so that a maximum of two awards could be given, in even years only, to coincide with the ISSP.
In the last thirty two years (to 2021) there have been twenty-six recipients of this award, often leading to new collaborations within SSED, many of which are still active in the SSED and wider IUPAC activities.
In 2023 the Franzosini Award was renamed the Franzosini Prize and elevated to an award in recognition of outstanding and sustained contributions to the field of critical evaluation of data in solubility and related chemical equilibria. At the same time the Balarew Award was inaugurated to recognize a for an Outstanding Young Scientist working in the field of critical evaluation of solubility and/or related chemical equilibria.
Nomination Procedure
The call for the 2024 awards has been released and the deadline is 31 May 2024.
The recipients
The recipients of the Franzosini Award along with the year and venue of the award, and the scientist making the nomination.
| Year | Venue | Awardee | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 14th Solubility Data Commission annual meeting held in conjunction with the 3rd ISSP, Guildford, Surrey, UK | Franzosini Award established | Mrs. M. C. Franzosini |
| 1989 | 15th Solubility Data Commission annual meeting held in conjunction with the 35th IUPAC General Assembly, Lund, Sweden | Rumen Duhlev (Bulgaria) | Chr. Balarew |
| 1990 | 16th Solubility Data Commission annual meeting held in conjunction with the 4th ISSP, Troy, NY, USA | Pirketta Scharlin (Finland) | R. Battino |
| 1991 | 17th Solubility Data Commission annual meeting held in conjunction with the 36th IUPAC General Assembly, Hamburg, Germany | A. Pacheko Tanaka (Peru) | A. Danil de Namor |
| 1992 | 18th Solubility Data Commission annual meeting held in conjunction with the 5th ISSP, Moscow, Russia | Stefan Gradinarov (Bulgaria) | Chr. Balarew |
| 1993 | 19th Solubility Data Commission annual meeting held in conjunction with the 37th IUPAC General Assembly, Lisbon, Portugal | Michel Ferriol (France) and Teresa Calvet (Spain) | M.-Th Cohen-Adad |
| 1994 | 20th Solubility Data Commission annual meeting held in conjunction with the 6th ISSP, Buenos Aires, Argentina | Erich Königsberger (Austria) | H. Gamsjäger |
| 1995 | 21st Solubility Data Commission annual meeting held in conjunction with the 38th IUPAC General Assembly, Guildford, UK | Felix José Sueros (Peru) | A. Danil de Namor |
| 1998 | 24th Solubility Data Commission annual meeting held in conjunction with the 8th ISSP, Niigata, Japan | Lan-Chi Tran-Ho (Austria) | H. Gamsjäger |
| 1999 | 25th Solubility Data Commission annual meeting held in conjunction with the 40th IUPAC General Assembly, Berlin, Germany | Chiara Milanese (Italy) | A. D’Aprano |
| 2000 | 26th Solubility Data Commission annual meeting held in conjunction with the 9th ISSP, Hammamet, Tunisia | Vladimir Zbranek (Czech Republic) | J. Eysseltova |
| 2001 | 27th Solubility Data Commission annual meeting held in conjunction with the 41st IUPAC General Assembly, Brisbane, Australia | Justin Salminen (Finland) | P. Scharlin |
| 2002 | 1st Annual meeting of SSED held in conjunction with the 10th ISSP, Varna, Bulgaria | Dana E. Knox (USA); CI 24, 6 (2002) | R. P. T. Tomkins |
| 2003 | 2nd Annual meeting of SSED held in conjunction with the 42nd IUPAC General Assembly, Ottawa, Canada | Pirketta Scharlin (Finland); CI 25(6) (2003) | H. Gamsjäger |
| 2004 | 3rd Annual meeting of SSED held in conjunction with the 11th ISSP, Aveiro, Portugal | Marian Góral (Poland); CI 26(6) (2004) | A. Skrzecz |
| 2006 | 5th Annual meeting of SSED held in conjunction with the 12th ISSP, Freiberg, Germany | Dewen Zeng (PR China); CI 28(6) (2006) | W. Voigt |
| 2010 | 9th Annual meeting of SSED held in conjunction with the 14th ISSP, Leoben, Austria | Jitka Eysseltova (Czech Republic), Stanislav Frančišković Bilinski (Croatia); CI 32(6) (2010) | M. C. Magalhães, H. Gamsjäger |
| 2012 | 11th Annual meeting of SSED held in conjunction with the 15th ISSP, Xining, PR China | Julia Schmit (Germany); CI 35(5) (2013) | W. Voigt |
| 2014 | 13th Annual meeting of SSED held in conjunction with the 16th ISSP; Karlsruhe, Germany | Magdalena Bendová (Czech Republic), Slobodan Gadzuric (Serbia); CI 37(4) (2015) | Chr. Balarew and Marcelle Gaune-Escard |
| 2016 | 15th Annual meeting of SSED held in conjunction with the 17th ISSP; Geneva, Switzerland | David Fellhauer (Germany); CI 39(2) (2017) | Marcus Altmaier and Donald Reed |
| 2018 | 17th Annual meeting of SSED held in conjunction with the 18th ISSP; Tours, France | Maria Gónzalez-Miquel (Spain), Romain Privat (France) | José Palomar and Jean-Noël Jaubert |
| 2020 (postponed in July 2021) | 19th ISSP; VIRTUAL, New Mexico, USA | Johan Jacquemin (France), Ricardo G. Simões (Portugal) | Magdalena Bendová and M. Minas da Piedade |
| 2022 | 20th ISSP, VIRTUAL, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal | Yongheum Jo (Korea); release | Marcus Altmaier |