Professor Fred Manby of the School of Chemistry is one of the 2011 winners of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Corday-Morgan Prize. The award recognises Professor Manby’s outstanding contributions to the development of explicitly correlated electronic structure theory, and of electronic structure methods for condensed phases. The Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize is a prestigious award that has been made annually since 1949 – there are now usually three a year across the full scope of the discipline – by the Royal Society of Chemistry for the most meritorious contributions to chemistry.