Sir Martin Sweeting of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has been awarded the Faraday Medal, the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) most prestigious award, for his outstanding contribution to the advancement of satellite technology.

Sir - Three of us are Nobel Laureates in chemistry and all 18 of us are Fellows of the Royal Society and chemists. We write to deplore the short-sighted and unjustified decision of the University at Swansea to cease to take undergraduates in chemistry.