Arthur C. Cope Award
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The Arthur C. Cope Award is a prize awarded for achievement in the field of organic chemistry
research. It is generally considered one of the highest honors in the field. It is sponsored by the Arthur C. Cope
Fund, and has been awarded since 1973 by the American Chemical Society
.
Recipients include:
Organic chemistry
Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation of carbon-based compounds, hydrocarbons, and their derivatives...
research. It is generally considered one of the highest honors in the field. It is sponsored by the Arthur C. Cope
Arthur C. Cope
Arthur 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...
Fund, and has been awarded since 1973 by the American Chemical Society
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...
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Recipients include:
- 1973 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:...
and Robert B. Woodward - 1974 Donald J. CramDonald J. CramDonald James Cram was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J...
- 1976 Elias J. Corey
- 1978 Orville L. Chapman
- 1980 Gilbert J. Stork
- 1982 Frank H. Westheimer
- 1984 Albert J. Eschenmoser
- 1986 Duilio ArigoniDuilio ArigoniDuilio Arigoni is a Swiss chemist and Emeritus Professor at ETH Zurich. He has worked on the biosynthetic pathways of many organic natural substances.- Birth and education :...
- 1987 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...
- 1988 Kenneth B. Wiberg
- 1989 William S. JohnsonWilliam Summer JohnsonWilliam Summer Johnson was an American chemist and teacher. From 1940 to 1958, Dr. Johnson was an instructor and then professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 1958, he moved to Stanford University in California where he spent the remainder of his scientific career...
- 1990 Koji NakanishiKoji Nakanishia bioorganic and natural products chemist, is Centennial Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and former Chairman of the Chemistry Department, Columbia University....
- 1991 Gerhard L. Closs
- 1992 K. Barry SharplessK. Barry SharplessKarl Barry Sharpless is an American chemist known for his work on stereoselective reactions.-Early years:Sharpless was born in Philadelphia. He graduated from Friends' Central School in 1959. He continued his studies at Dartmouth College and earned his Ph.D from Stanford University in 1968...
- 1993 Peter B. Dervan
- 1994 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....
- 1995 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...
- 1996 Robert G. Bergman
- 1997 Ryōji NoyoriRyoji Noyoriis a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001. Noyori shared half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second half of the Prize went to K. Barry Sharpless for his study in chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions...
- 1998 Samuel J. DanishefskySamuel J. DanishefskySamuel J. Danishefsky is an American chemist working as a professor at both Columbia University and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.- Birth and education :...
- 1999 Ralph F. HirschmannRalph F. HirschmannRalph Franz Hirschmann was a German American biochemist who led a team that was responsible for the first organic synthesis of an enzyme, a ribonuclease.-Early life and education:...
- 2000 David A. EvansDavid A. EvansDavid A. Evans is the Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University...
- 2001 George A. Olah
- 2002 Robert H. GrubbsRobert H. GrubbsRobert Howard Grubbs is an American chemist and Nobel laureate.As he noted in his official Nobel Prize autobiography, "In some places, my birthplace is listed as Calvert City and in others Possum Trot [NB: both in Marshall County]...
- 2003 Larry E. OvermanLarry E. OvermanLarry E. Overman is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. He was born in Chicago in 1943. Overman obtained a B.A. degree from Earlham College in 1965. and he completed his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1969, under Howard...
- 2004 Barry M. Trost
- 2005 K.C. Nicolaou
- 2006 Peter G. Schultz
- 2007 Jean FréchetJean FrechetProfessor Jean M.J. Fréchet is the Henry Rapoport Chair of Organic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley...
- 2008 J. Fraser Stoddart
- 2009 Manfred T. Reetz
- 2010 Kendall N. Houk
- 2011 Nicholas TurroNicholas TurroNicholas J. Turro is an American chemist, Wm. P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. He is the recipient of the 2011 Arthur C...
- 2012 Chi-Huey WongChi-Huey WongChi-Huey Wong is a Taiwanese-born biochemist and professor of chemistry and chemical biology at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. His expertise is bioorganic chemistry, especially in carbohydrate biochemistry and chemical proteomics...