The George Hevesy Medal Award is the premier international award of excellence to honour outstanding achievements in radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry. Established originally in 1968 by the Editor-in-Chief and the publishers of the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry (JRNC), the Hevesy Medal Award has been given in recognition of excellence through outstanding, sustained career achievements in the fields of pure and applied nuclear and radiochemistry, particularly applications to nuclear analytical chemistry. The Hevesy Medal has been awarded almost annually during 1968–1986 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 radiotracer applications to analysis such as substoichiometric isotopic dilution analysis, automated systems and computerized systems, and widespread fields of application. This Award is international in scope since those who have been honored have been from North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The Hevesy Medal Award has been reactivated in 2000 when it was presented at the Methods and Applications of Radioanalytical Chemistry-V (MARC-V) conference held in Kona, Hawaii, 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 (APSORC 2001) 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 the MARC-VI conference held in Kona; 2004 at the 11th Modern Trends in Activation Analysis (MTAA-11) conference held in Guildford, UK; 2005 at NAMLS-8 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the 1st International Nuclear Chemistry Congress (1st-INCC) in Kusadasi, Turkey, and at APSORC-05 in Beijing, China; 2006 at the MARC-VII conference held in Kona; 2007 at MTAA-12 in Hachioji, Japan; 2008 at the Seventh International Conference on Nuclear and Radiochemistry (NRC-7) in Budapest, Hungary; and 2009 at the MARCVIII conference held in Kona. Both 2010 and 2011 awards will be presented at MTAA-13 in College Station, Texas, U.S.A. The Hevesy Award comprises an engraved bronze medal (in a presentation case) and an ornamental scroll which are to be presented at a major international radiochemical conference occurring in the year of the award. The Hevesy Medal Award has no monetary value. The Editor-in-Chief of the JRNC has invited the International Committee on Activation Analysis (ICAA) of the Modern Trends in Activation Analysis Conferences (MTAA) to act as the adjudicating body for the Hevesy Medal Award in the name of the JRNC for the period of 2007–2011 inclusive.