ACS Award in pure chemistry
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The American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry is awarded annually by the American Chemical Society
(ACS) "To recognize and encourage fundamental research in pure chemistry carried out in North America by young men and women." Presently, "young" means born within 35 years of the awarding of the Award, which takes place at the Spring meeting of the ACS. To be eligible, a nominee "must have accomplished research of unusual merit for an individual on the threshold of her or his career. Special consideration is given to independence of thought and originality in the research..." The award was first awarded in 1931, with Linus Pauling
the inaugural recipient. It is presently sponsored by the Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity
and the Alpha Chi Sigma Educational Foundation.
American Chemical Society
The American Chemical Society is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 161,000 members at all degree-levels and in all fields of chemistry, chemical...
(ACS) "To recognize and encourage fundamental research in pure chemistry carried out in North America by young men and women." Presently, "young" means born within 35 years of the awarding of the Award, which takes place at the Spring meeting of the ACS. To be eligible, a nominee "must have accomplished research of unusual merit for an individual on the threshold of her or his career. Special consideration is given to independence of thought and originality in the research..." The award was first awarded in 1931, with Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling was an American chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator. He was one of the most influential chemists in history and ranks among the most important scientists of the 20th century...
the inaugural recipient. It is presently sponsored by the Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity
Alpha Chi Sigma
Alpha Chi Sigma is a professional fraternity specializing in the field of chemistry. It has both collegiate and professional chapters throughout the United States consisting of both men and women and numbering more than 63,400 members...
and the Alpha Chi Sigma Educational Foundation.
Past Recipients
- 2012 Oleg V. Ozerov
- 2011 Melanie S. Sanford
- 2010 Phil S. Baran
- 2009 Garnet K.L. Chan
- 2008 Rustem F. Ismagilov
- 2007 Xiaowei ZhuangXiaowei ZhuangXiaowei Zhuang is an American biophysicist, and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Physics, at Harvard University, and the Zhuang Research Lab.She is an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute....
- 2006 David R. Liu
- 2005 Peidong YangPeidong YangPeidong Yang is a Chinese American scientist, currently a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley . He is a Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Materials Science. His research group studies the synthesis of nanomaterials and their electronic and optical properties...
- 2004 Mei Hong
- 2003 Jillian M. Buriak
- 2002 Hongjie DaiHongjie DaiHongjie Dai is a Chinese-American Chemist and Applied Physicist, the J.G. Jackson & C.J. Wood Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.He is a leading figure in the study of carbon nanotubes....
- 2001 Carolyn R. BertozziCarolyn R. BertozziCarolyn Ruth Bertozzi is an American chemist. She is the T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley; Professor of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the University of California, San...
- 2000 Chaitan Khosla
- 1999 Chad A. MirkinChad MirkinChad A. Mirkin is an American chemist. He is the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly at...
- 1998 Christopher C. Cummins
- 1997 Erick M. Carreira
- 1996 Ann E. McDermott
- 1995 M. Reza Ghadiri
- 1994 Gerard F. R. ParkinGerard ParkinGerard "Ged" Parkin is a professor at the Columbia University.-Biography:Gerard Parkin worked under Malcolm Green during both his undergraduate and graduate studies, at Queens College of Oxford University. His work involved exploring the chemistry of tungsten phosphine derivatives...
- 1993 Jeremy M. BergJeremy M. BergJeremy Mark Berg is the director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institute of Health . He was formerly a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Director of the Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry and author of several...
- 1992 Charles M. Lieber
- 1991 Nathan S. LewisNathan LewisNathan S. Lewis is the George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. He specializes in functionalization of silicon and other semiconductor surfaces, as well as chemical sensing using chemiresistive sensor arrays. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees also at...
- 1990 Peter G. Schultz
- 1989 Stuart L. Schreiber
- 1988 Jacqueline K. Barton
- 1987 George McLendonGeorge McLendonGeorge McLendon is the Howard R. Hughes Provost and Professor of Chemistry at Rice University. McLendon holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at El Paso and a doctorate from Texas A&M University. He assumed the role of provost in 2010 after serving as Dean of Trinity College of...
- 1986 Peter G. Wolynes
- 1985 Ben S. Freiser
- 1984 Eric OldfieldEric OldfieldEric Oldfield is an Australian actor, who remains best known for his role in the soap opera The Young Doctors as Dr. Ben Fielding....
- 1983 Michael J. Berry
- 1982 Stephen R. Leone
- 1981 Mark S. WrightonMark S. WrightonMark Stephen Wrighton is an American academic, a chemist, and the current Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Wrighton received his B.S. in Chemistry from Florida State University in 1969. While at Florida State, he won the Monsanto Chemistry Award for...
- 1980 John E. BercawJohn E. BercawJohn E. Bercaw is an American chemist and Centennial Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology....
- 1979 Henry F. Schaefer, IIIHenry F. Schaefer, IIIHenry "Fritz" Schaefer III is a computational and theoretical chemist. He is the author of a large number of scientific publications, and was the 6th most cited chemist from 1981 to 1997 and the Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Computational Chemistry at the...
- 1978 Jesse L. BeauchampJesse L. BeauchampJesse L. Beauchamp is the Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology.- Early life and education :* 1964 B.S. California Institute of Technology* 1967 Ph.D. Harvard University- Awards :...
- 1977 Barry M. Trost
- 1976 Karl F. Freed
- 1975 George M. WhitesidesGeorge M. WhitesidesGeorge M. Whitesides is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University. He is best known for his work in the areas of NMR spectroscopy, organometallic chemistry, molecular self-assembly, soft lithography, microfabrication, microfluidics, and nanotechnology...
- 1974 Nicholas J. Turro
- 1973 John I. Brauman
- 1972 Roy G. Gordon
- 1971 R. Bruce King
- 1970 Harry B. GrayHarry B. GrayHarry Barkus Gray is the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. He won the Priestley Medal in 1991, Harvey Prize in 2000, The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry in 2004, and the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2004.-Career:Gray received his B.S...
- 1969 Roald HoffmannRoald HoffmannRoald Hoffmann is an American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He currently teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.-Escape from the Holocaust:...
- 1968 Orville L. Chapman
- 1967 John D. Baldeschwieler
- 1966 Ronald BreslowRonald BreslowRonald C. D. Breslow is an American chemist from Rahway, New Jersey. He is currently University Professor at Columbia University, where he is based in the Department of Chemistry and affiliated with the Departments of Biological Sciences and Pharmacology; he has also been on the faculty of its...
- 1965 Dudley R. HerschbachDudley R. HerschbachDudley Robert Herschbach is an American chemist at Harvard University. He won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Yuan T. Lee and John C...
- 1964 Marshall FixmanMarshall FixmanMarshall Fixman is an American physical chemist, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Colorado State University, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences....
- 1963 Stuart A. RiceStuart A. RiceStuart Alan Rice is an American theoretical chemist and physical chemist. He is well-known as a theoretical chemist who also does experimental research, having spent much of his career working in multiple areas of physical chemistry. He is currently the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service...
- 1962 Harden M. McConnellHarden M. McConnellHarden M. McConnell is an American physical chemist at Stanford University.-Birth and education:Harden M. McConnell was born on July 18, 1927 in Richmond, Virginia. He completed his Bachelor of Science from George Washington University in 1947 and his PhD from the California Institute of...
- 1961 Eugene E. van Tamelen
- 1960 Elias J. Corey
- 1959 Ernest M. Grunwald
- 1958 Carl DjerassiCarl DjerassiCarl Djerassi is an Austrian-American chemist, novelist, and playwright best known for his contribution to the development of the first oral contraceptive pill . Djerassi is emeritus professor of chemistry at Stanford University.He participated in the invention in 1951, together with Mexican Luis E...
- 1957 Gilbert J. Stork
- 1956 Paul M. DotyPaul M. DotyPaul Mead Doty is an emeritus Harvard Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry who specialized in the physical properties of macromolecules and has been strongly involved in peace and security policy issues....
- 1955 Paul Delahay
- 1954 John D. RobertsJohn D. RobertsJohn Dombrowski Roberts is an American chemist. He has made contributions to the integration of physical chemistry, spectroscopy and organic chemistry for the understanding of chemical reaction rates....
- 1953 William von E. Doering
- 1952 Harrison S. Brown
- 1951 John C. SheehanJohn C. SheehanJohn Clark Sheehan was an American organic chemist whose work on synthetic penicillin led to tailor-made forms of the drug. After nine years of hard work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , he became the first to discover a practical method for synthesizing penicillin V...
- 1950 Verner Schomaker
- 1949 Richard T. Arnold
- 1948 Saul WinsteinSaul WinsteinSaul Winstein was the Canadian chemist who discovered the Winstein reaction, in which he argued a non-classical cation was needed to explain the stability of the norbornyl cation. This fueled a debate with Herbert C. Brown over the existence of delocalized cations such as this. Richard F...
- 1947 Glenn T. SeaborgGlenn T. SeaborgGlenn Theodore Seaborg was an American scientist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements", contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, and developed the actinide concept, which led to the current arrangement of the...
- 1946 Charles C. Price, III
- 1945 Frederick T. Wall
- 1944 Arthur C. CopeArthur C. CopeArthur C. Cope was a highly successful and influential organic chemist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is credited with the development of several important chemical reactions which bear his name including the Cope elimination and the Cope rearrangement.Cope was born on June...
- 1943 Kenneth S. Pitzer
- 1942 John Lawrence OncleyJohn Lawrence OncleyJohn Lawrence Oncley was an American biochemist, and Professor Emeritus at University of Michigan.He won the 1942 ACS Award in pure chemistry. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.-Life:...
- 1941 Karl August FolkersKarl August FolkersKarl August Folkers was an American biochemist, working at Merck, and best known for his role in the isolation of vitamin B12. He received the Perkin Medal in 1960 and the Priestley Medal in 1986.-External links:...
- 1940 Lawrence O. Brockway
- 1938 Paul Doughty BartlettPaul Doughty BartlettPaul Doughty Bartlett was an American chemist.Bartlett was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and grew up in Indianapolis. He received his B.A. from Amherst College in 1928. After his graduation from Harvard with James Bryant Conant, Bartlett worked at the Rockefeller Institute and the University of...
- 1937 E. Bright Wilson, Jr.
- 1936 John Gamble KirkwoodJohn Gamble KirkwoodJohn "Jack" Gamble Kirkwood was a noted chemist and physicist, holding faculty positions at Cornell University, the University of Chicago, California Institute of Technology, and Yale University.-Early life and background:Kirkwood was born in Gotebo, Oklahoma, the oldest child of John Millard and...
- 1935 Raymond M. Fuoss
- 1934 C. Frederick Koelsch
- 1933 Frank H. Spedding
- 1932 Oscar K. Rice
- 1931 Linus PaulingLinus PaulingLinus Carl Pauling was an American chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator. He was one of the most influential chemists in history and ranks among the most important scientists of the 20th century...