The Council of the Society congratulates Emeritus Professor D Brynn Hibbert AM FRSN on the award of the Archibald D Ollé Prize of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI): ‘For his work as editor and contributor on the Compendium of Terminology in Analytical Chemistry, 4^th edition of the IUPAC Orange Book, published in 2023 by the Royal Society of Chemistry.’ In the image opposite, Professor Hibbert is shown receiving his award from Dr Maree Stuart, Chair of the NSW Branch of the RACI.

Archibald Ollé was very active in the chemical and scientific life of NSW in the first 40 years of the twentieth century, and his wife, who outlived him, left a bequest to the RACI NSW Branch to his name with an annual prize. It is awarded to a member of the RACI who submits the “best treatise, writing or paper” on any subject relevant to the RACI’s interests. The RSNSW Archibald Ollé Prize is also awarded for the best paper submitted to the Society’s Journal and Proceedings.

Professor Hibbert, a former President of RSNSW, is a leading figure in the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), having been President of the Analytical Chemistry Division, and now an Emeritus Fellow of IUPAC. He is presently Secretary of the Interdivisional Committee on Terminology, Nomenclature and Symbols, and so is one of those responsible for the language of chemistry, including naming elements, and all chemical compounds. The Orange Book contains the formal definitions of more than 4600 terms used in Analytical Chemistry, starting with ‘analytical chemistry’. The 600+ page book took 14 years to complete, with each definition going through rigorous rounds of peer and public review, surviving three deaths of chapter leaders, and then COVID. IUPAC has published a short history of its writing in Chemistry International.

Professor Hibbert is a previous winner of the Ollé Prize for his “Quality Assurance for the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory” published by  Oxford University Press, in 2007.

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