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The George Hevesy Medal Award is the premier international award of excellence in radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry. It is awarded to an individual in recognition of excellence through outstanding, sustained career achievements in the fields of pure as well as applied nuclear and radiochemistry, particularly applications to nuclear analytical chemistry. Established originally in 1968 by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Tibor BRAUN, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry (JRNC), the George Hevesy Medal Award has been given during 1968–86 to 19 distinguished individuals whose contributions have traced and defined the scope and depth of radioanalysis through prolific postwar years of the nuclear era. Their achievements ranged from pioneering radioactivation analysis methodology and applications, through development of radiochemical separation procedures and analytical schemes, to nuclear data, radioisotope production, and radiotracer applications to analysis such as substoichiometric isotopic dilution analysis, automated and computerized systems, Mossbauer spectroscopy, radioactive nanoparticles, and widespread fields of application. This Award has been reactivated in 2000 by Professor Dr. Tibor BRAUN and Professor Dr. Amares CHATT. It is sponsored by JRNC. It was adjudicated by the International Committee on Activation Analysis/Modern Trends in Activation Analysis (ICAA/MTAA; web site: http://www.icaa-mtaa.org) during 2000–15 and by the JRNC Board of the Hevesy Award thereafter. The Award has no monetary value. The Hevesy Award comprises an engraved bronze medal and a citation which are presented at a major international radiochemical conference occurring in the year of the award. Since the reactivation of the Hevesy Medal Award and its presentation in 2000 at the Methods and Applications of Radioanalytical Chemistry-V (MARC-V) conference held in Kona, Hawai’i, U.S.A., subsequent awards were presented in: 2001 at the Third International Symposium on Nuclear Analytical Chemistry (NAC-III) in Halifax, Canada, and at the Asia–Pacific Symposium on Radiochemistry (APSORC01) in Fukuoka, Japan; 2002 at the Seventh International Conference on Nuclear Analytical Methods in the Life Sciences (NAMLS-7) Including Complementary Isotopic Techniques and Applications held in Antalya, Turkey; 2003 at MARC-VI in Kona; 2004 at the Eleventh Modern Trends in Activation Analysis (MTAA-11) conference held in Guildford, UK; 2005 at NAMLS-8 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the 1st International Nuclear Chemistry Congress (1st-INCC) in Kusadasi, Turkey, and at APSORC05 in Beijing, China; 2006 at MARC-VII in Kona; 2007 at MTAA-12 in Hachioji, Japan; 2008 at the Seventh International Conference on Nuclear and Radiochemistry (NRC-7) in Budapest, Hungary; 2009 at MARC-VIII in Kona; both 2010 and 2011 awards at MTAA-13 in College Station, Texas, U.S.A.; 2012 at MARC-IX in Kona; 2013 at APSORC13 in Kanazawa, & A. Chatt chatt@dal.ca