Glenn T. Seaborg Medal
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The Glenn T. Seaborg Medal was first awarded in 1987 by the University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA), Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry to Nobel prize winning chemist Glenn T. Seaborg
, a UCLA alumnus. The purpose of the award is to honor persons who have made exceptional scientific contributions in the fields of chemistry or biochemistry.
Awarded annually, the winner of the Seaborg Medal is selected by an executive committee of the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
(UCLA), Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry to Nobel prize winning chemist Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn 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...
, a UCLA alumnus. The purpose of the award is to honor persons who have made exceptional scientific contributions in the fields of chemistry or biochemistry.
Awarded annually, the winner of the Seaborg Medal is selected by an executive committee of the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
Previous Winners of the Glenn T. Seaborg Medal
- Professor Glenn T. Seaborg, 1987
- Dr. Warren W. Kaeding, 1988
- Professor 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...
, 1989 - Mr. George Gregory, 1990
- Professor 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....
, 1991 - Dr. Ralph H. Bauer, 1992
- Professor R. Bruce Merrifield, 1993
- Professor George S. HammondGeorge S. HammondGeorge S. Hammond was a chemist at Iowa State University and the California Institute of Technology. Among his awards were the Norris Award in 1968 and the Priestley Medal in 1976 and the National Medal of Science in 1994...
, 1994 - Dr. George B. Rathmann, 1995
- 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...
, 1996 - Professor M. Fredrick Hawthorne, 1997
- Professor Paul D. BoyerPaul D. Boyer- External links :* , from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy* * *...
, 1998 - Mr. John P. McTague, 1999
- Professor Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.Daniel Edward Koshland, Jr. reorganized the study of biology at the University of California at Berkeley and was the editor of the leading US science journal, Science, from 1985 to 1995...
, 2000 - Dr. James B. Peter, 2001
- Professor Richard E. Smalley, 2002
- Dr. Ad BaxAd BaxAdriaan "Ad" Bax is a molecular Biophysicist. He was born in Holland and is currently a US Citizen. He is the Chief of the Section on Biophysical NMR Spectroscopy at the National Institutes of Health....
and Professor Alexander PinesAlexander PinesAlexander Pines is the Glenn T. Seaborg Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, Senior Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , and a member of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences and the Department of...
, 2003 - Professor David EisenbergDavid EisenbergDavid S. Eisenberg is an American biochemist best known for his contributions to structural and computational molecular biology...
, 2004 - Professor Ronald M. EvansRonald M. EvansRonald M. Evans is an American professor and biologist who works at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. He received his BS and PhD degrees from UCLA, followed by a postdoctoral training in Rockefeller University...
, 2005 - Professor 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...
, 2006 - Dr. R. Stanley WilliamsR. Stanley WilliamsRichard Stanley Williams is research scientist in the field of nanotechnology and a Senior Fellow and the founding director of the Quantum Science Research laboratory at HP. He has over 57 patents, with 40 more patents pending...
, 2007 - Professor Joan Selverstone Valentine, 2008
- Professor Mostafa A. El-Sayed, 2009
- Dr. Robert TjianRobert TjianRobert Tjian is a U.S. biochemist best known for his work on eukaryotic transcription. He is currently Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
, 2010 - Professor Richard F. HeckRichard F. HeckRichard Fred Heck is an American chemist noted for the discovery and development of the Heck reaction, which uses palladium to catalyze organic chemical reactions that couple aryl halides with alkenes....
, 2011