American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal
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The American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal is the highest award of the American Institute of Chemists
. It has been awarded since 1926. The 2009 awardee was the Nobel Laureate Oliver Smithies
American Institute of Chemists
The American Institute of Chemists is an organization founded in 1923 whose goal is to advance the chemical profession in the United States. The institute is known for its yearly awards recognizing contributions of individuals in this field of work. The American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal is...
. It has been awarded since 1926. The 2009 awardee was the Nobel Laureate Oliver Smithies
Oliver Smithies
Oliver Smithies is a British-born American geneticist and Nobel laureate, credited with the invention of gel electrophoresis in 1955, and the simultaneous discovery, with Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans, of the technique of homologous recombination of transgenic DNA with genomic DNA, a much more...
Medal recipients
- 1926 Dr. William Blum
- 1927 Dr. Lafayette B. Mendel
- 1929 Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. GarvanFrancis P. GarvanFrancis Patrick Garvan was an American lawyer and long-time president of the Chemical Foundation. The American Chemical Society awarded him its highest honor, the Priestley Medal, in 1929. Garvan established what is now known as the American Chemical Society's Francis P. Garvan-John M...
- 1930 Mr. George EastmanGeorge EastmanGeorge Eastman was an American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream...
- 1931 Mr. Andrew W. MellonAndrew W. MellonAndrew William Mellon was an American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932.-Early life:...
& Mr. Richard B. MellonRichard B. MellonRichard Beatty Mellon , sometimes R.B., was a banker, industrialist, and philanthropist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.... - 1932 Dr. Charles H. Herty
- 1933 Dr. Henry C. Sherman
- 1934 Dr. James Bryant ConantJames Bryant ConantJames Bryant Conant was a chemist, educational administrator, and government official. As thePresident of Harvard University he reformed it as a research institution.-Biography :...
- 1936 Dr. Marston Taylor Bogert
- 1937 Dr. James F. Norris
- 1938 Dr. Frederick G. Cottrell
- 1940 Dr. Gustav Egloff
- 1941 Dr. Henry G. Knight
- 1942 Dr. William Lloyd Evans
- 1943 Dr. Walter S. Landis
- 1944 Dr. Willard H. Dow
- 1945 Dr. John W. ThomasJohn W. ThomasJohn W. Thomas was an American Politician. A Republican, he served on two occasions as a United States Senator from Idaho, both times appointed after his predecessor died in office.-Early life:...
- 1946 Mr. Robert Price Russell
- 1947 Dr. Moses Leverock Crossley
- 1948 Dr. Charles A. Thomas
- 1949 Dr. Warren K. LewisWarren K. LewisWarren Kendall Lewis was an MIT professor who has been called the father of modern chemical engineering. He co-authored an early major textbook on the subject which essentially introduced the concept of unit operations...
- 1950 Dr. Walter J. Murphy
- 1951 Dr. Harry N. Holmes
- 1952 Dr. Fred J. Emmerich
- 1953 Dr. J. C. Warner
- 1954 Dr. William J. SparksWilliam J. SparksWilliam Joseph Sparks was a chemist at Exxon. As an inventor, his most important contribution was the development of butyl rubber....
- 1955 Dr. Carl S. Marvel
- 1956 Mr. Raymond Stevens
- 1957 Dr. Roy Newton
- 1958 Dr. Lawrence Flett
- 1959 Dr. Crawford H. Greenewalt
- 1960 Dr. Ernest H. VolwilerErnest H. VolwilerErnest Henry Volwiler spent his entire career at Abbott Laboratories working his way from staff chemist to CEO....
- 1961 Dr. Alden H. Emery
- 1962 Dr. George W. Parks
- 1963 Dr. Ralph ConnorRalph Connor (scientist)Ralph Connor was a chemist who was awarded the Priestley Medal of the American Chemical Society in 1967. Connor is most known for his research in organic chemistry, catalysis, synthesis, explosives, and reaction mechanisms...
- 1964 Dr. Roger AdamsRoger AdamsRoger Adams was an American organic chemist. He is best-known for the eponymous Adams' catalyst, and his work did much to determine the composition of naturally occurring substances such as complex vegetable oils and plant alkaloids...
- 1965 Brig. Gen Edwin Cox
- 1966 Dr. John H. Nair
- 1967 Dr. Wayne E. Kuhn
- 1968 Dr. Orville E. May
- 1969 Dr. Henry B. Hass
- 1970 Dr. Willard F. Libby
- 1971 Dr. Emmett B. Carmichael
- 1972 Dr. Harold C. Urey
- 1973 Dr. 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...
- 1974 Dr. W. E. "Butch" HanfordWilliam Edward HanfordDr. William Edward "Butch" Hanford was an American chemist who is best known for developing the modern process to make multipurpose material polyurethane. Hanford’s most notable discovery occurred while working with fellow chemist Dr. Donald Fletcher Holmes at DuPont. On June 2, 1942, Hanford was...
- 1975 Dr. William O. BakerWilliam O. BakerWilliam Oliver Baker was a former President of Bell Labs who had advised five Presidents on scientific matters. He received his degree from Washington College and went on to get a doctorate from Princeton University, studying under Charles Phelps Smyth...
- 1976 Dr. Kenneth S. Pitzer
- 1977 Dr. Max TishlerMax TishlerMax Tishler was a scientist at Merck & Co. who led the research teams that synthesized ascorbic acid, riboflavin, cortisone, miamin, pyridoxin, pantothenic acid, nicotinamide, methionine, threonine, and tryptophan...
- 1978 Dr. Norman HackermanNorman HackermanNorman Hackerman was an American chemist, internationally known as an expert in metal corrosion, and a former president of both the University of Texas at Austin and Rice University ....
- 1979 Dr. Melvin CalvinMelvin CalvinMelvin Ellis Calvin was an American chemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley.- Life :Calvin was born...
- 1980 Dr. Arthur M. Bueche
- 1981 Dr. Lewis Sarett
- 1982 Dr. Milton HarrisMilton Harris (scientist)Milton Harris was a scientist who founded the Harris Research Laboratories and, for six years, chaired the Board of Directors of the National Academy of Sciences....
- 1983 Dr. Mary L. GoodMary L. GoodMary Lowe Good is an inorganic chemist who does industrial research and has worked in government. She received her BS from the University of Central Arkansas and in 1955 received her PhD in from the University of Arkansas...
- 1984 Dr. John H. SinfeltJohn H. SinfeltJohn H. Sinfelt was an American chemical engineer whose research on catalytic reforming was responsible for the introduction of unleaded gasoline.Sinfelt was working for the Standard Oil Development Company , where he specialized in developing...
- 1985 Dr. Herbert C. BrownHerbert C. BrownHerbert Charles Brown was a chemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate for his work with organoboranes....
- 1986 Dr. N. Bruce Hannay
- 1987 Dr. Arnold O. Beckman
- 1988 Dr. George C. PimentelGeorge C. PimentelGeorge Claude Pimentel was the inventor of the chemical laser. He also developed the modern technique of matrix isolation in low-temperature chemistry. In theoretical chemistry, he proposed the three-centre four-electron bond which is now accepted as the best simple model of hypervalent...
- 1989 Dr. Elias J. Corey
- 1990 Dr. 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...
- 1991 Dr. Bruce N. Ames
- 1992 Dr. Roy L. Whistler
- 1993 Dr. Fred BasoloFred BasoloFred Basolo was an American inorganic chemist. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1943 with John C. Bailar. Basolo spent his entire professional career at Northwestern University...
- 1994 Dr. Arthur AdamsonArthur AdamsonArthur Adamson was an Australian rules football player who played 28 games and scored no goals for the South Melbourne Football Club in the 1902 and 1903 seasons. He was recruited from Broken Hill.-External links:...
- 1995 Dr. George ParshallGeorge ParshallGeorge W. Parshall is a distinguished member of the organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis communities and has played a key role in advising the U.S...
- 1996 Dr. Harry Drickman
- 1997 Dr. Alfred BaderAlfred BaderAlfred Bader CBE is a Canadian chemist, businessman and collector of fine art.-Early years:Bader's father's family was of Czech Jewish descent; his mother was a Catholic Hungarian aristocrat. He fled from Austria to England in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution...
- 1998 Dr. F. Albert CottonF. Albert CottonFrank Albert Cotton was the W.T. Doherty-Welch Foundation Chair and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M University. He authored over 1700 scientific articles. Cotton was recognized for his research on the chemistry of the transition metals.-Education:Frank Albert Cotton was born on...
- 2000 Dr. Yie W. Chien
- 2002 Dr. Tobin Marks
- 2003 Dr. Ralph Hirschmann
- 2004 Dr. 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...
- 2005 Mr. Robert L. McNeil, Jr.Robert L. McNeil, Jr.Robert Lincoln McNeil, Jr. was an American chemist and pharmaceutical industry executive. He was responsible for, among other things, the commercial development, naming, and introduction of the pain reliever Tylenol....
- 2006 Dr. 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:...
- 2007 Dr. George 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...
- 2008 Dr. Paul BergPaul BergPaul Berg is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980, along with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger. The award recognized their contributions to basic research involving nucleic acids...
- 2009 Oliver SmithiesOliver SmithiesOliver Smithies is a British-born American geneticist and Nobel laureate, credited with the invention of gel electrophoresis in 1955, and the simultaneous discovery, with Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans, of the technique of homologous recombination of transgenic DNA with genomic DNA, a much more...
- 2010 Robert Grubbs