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Table 1. The first ten winners of the Luckhurst-Samulski Prize.

Year	Authors	Title	Reference
2009	Goodby JW, Saez IM, Cowling SJ, Gasowska JS, MacDonald RA, Sia S, Watson P, Toyne KJ, Hird M, Lewis RA, Lee SE, Vaschenko V.	Molecular complexity and the control of self-organising processes.	[2]
2010	Jakli A.	Electro-mechanical effects in liquid crystals.	[3]
2011	Skarabot M, Lokar Z, Gabrijelcic K, Wilkes D, Musevic I.	Atomic force microscope based method of measuring short cholesteric pitch in liquid crystals.	[4]
2012	Picken SJ, Dingemans TJ, Madsen LA, Francescangeli O, Samulski ET.	Uniaxial to biaxial nematic phase transition in a bent-core thermotropic liquid crystal by polarising microscopy.	[5]
2013	Pieranski P, Yang B, Burtz LJ, Camu A, Simonetti F.	Generation of umbilics by magnets and flows.	[6]
2014	Takezoe H, Araoka F.	Polar columnar liquid crystals.	[7]
2015	Alshomrany A, Clark NA.	Fisheye lens conoscopy.	[8]
2016	Dawood AA, Grossel MC, Luckhurst GR, Richardson RM, Timimi BA, Wells NJ, Yousif YZ.	On the twist-bend nematic phase formed directly from the isotropic phase.	[9]
2017	Paterson DA, Abberley JP, Harrison WT, Storey JM, Imrie CT.	Cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase.	[10]
2018	Tschierske, C.	Mirror symmetry breaking in liquids and liquid crystals.	[11]

Figure 1. (Colour online) Geoffrey Luckhurst’s eightieth birthday lunch. From left to right: Bakir (Tim) Timimi, David Dunmur, Jim Emsley, Corrie Imrie, Geoffrey Luckhurst, George Attard, Ian Hamley, Tim Sluckin and Dominic Tildesley. Photograph taken by Colin Bulpitt.

Goodby JW, Saez IM, Cowling SJ, Gasowska JS, MacDonald RA, Sia S, Watson P, Toyne KJ, Hird M, Lewis RA, Lee SE, Vaschenko V. Molecular complexity and the control of self-organising processes. Liq Cryst. 2009;36:567–605.

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Jakli A. Electro-mechanical effects in liquid crystals. Liq Cryst. 2010;37:825–37.

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Skarabot M, Lokar Z, Gabrijelcic K, Wilkes D, Musevic I. Atomic force microscope based method of measuring short cholesteric pitch in liquid crystals. Liq Cryst. 2011;38:1017–20.

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Picken SJ, Dingemans TJ, Madsen LA, Francescangeli O, Samulski ET. Uniaxial to biaxial nematic phase transition in a bent-core thermotropic liquid crystal by polarising microscopy. Liq Cryst. 2012;39:19–23.

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Pieranski P, Yang B, Burtz LJ, Camu A, Simonetti F. Generation of umbilics by magnets and flows. Liq Cryst. 2013;40:1593–608.

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Takezoe H, Araoka F. Polar columnar liquid crystals. Liq Cryst. 2014;41:393–401.

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Alshomrany A, Clark NA. Fisheye lens conoscopy. Liq Cryst. 2015;42:271–87.

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Dawood AA, Grossel MC, Luckhurst GR, Richardson RM, Timimi BA, Wells NJ, Yousif YZ. On the twist-bend nematic phase formed directly from the isotropic phase. Liq Cryst. 2016;43:2–12.

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Paterson DA, Abberley JP, Harrison WT, Storey JM, Imrie CT. Cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase. Liq Cryst. 2017;44:127–46.

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Tschierske C. Mirror symmetry breaking in liquids and liquid crystals. Liq Cryst. 2018;45:2221–52.

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