The Remington Honor Medal, named for eminent community pharmacist

Pharmacist

Pharmacists are allied health professionals who practice in pharmacy, the field of health sciences focusing on safe and effective medication use...

, manufacturer, and educator Joseph P. Remington (1847-1918), was established in 1918 to recognize distinguished service on behalf of American pharmacy

Pharmacy

Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs...

 during the preceding year, culminating in the past year, or during a long period of outstanding activity or fruitful achievement.

Awarded annually by the American Pharmacists Association

American Pharmacists Association

The American Pharmacists Association , founded in 1852, is the first-established professional society of pharmacists within the United States....

, the Remington Medal is the highest recognition given in the profession of pharmacy

Pharmacy

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Past Recipients

• 1919 James Hartley Beal
  James Hartley Beal
  thumb|right|300px|circa 1915James Hartley Beal was an educator, legislator, author, and pharmacist in the U.S. State of Ohio who was the first recipient of the Remington Medal.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1920 John Uri Lloyd
  John Uri Lloyd
  John Uri Lloyd was an American pharmacist influential to the development of pharmacognosy, ethnobotany, economic botany, and herbalism.He also wrote novels set in northern Kentucky...
  
  
• 1922 Henry Vincome Arny
• 1923 Henry Hurd Rusby
• 1924 George Mahlon Beringer
• 1925 Henry Milton Whelpley
• 1926 Henry A. B. Dunning
• 1928 Charles H. LaWall
• 1929 Wilbur Lincoln Scoville
• 1930 Edward Kremers
• 1931 Ernest Fullerton Cook
• 1932 Eugene G. Eberle
• 1933 Evander F. Kelly
• 1934 Sir Henry S. Wellcome
  Henry Wellcome
  Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome FRS was an American-British pharmaceutical entrepreneur. He founded the pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Company with his colleague Silas Burroughs, which is one of the four large companies that merged to form GlaxoSmithKline...
  
  
• 1935 Samuel Louis Hilton
• 1936 Edmund N. Gathercoal
• 1937 J. Leon Lascoff
• 1938 Henry C. Christensen
• 1940 Robert L. Swain
• 1941 George D. Beal
• 1942 Josiah K. Lilly Sr.
  Josiah K. Lilly Sr.
  Josiah Kirby Lilly, Sr. was a pharmaceutical industrialist, philanthropist, and President of Eli Lilly and Company.-Life:...
  
  
• 1943 Robert P. Fischelis
• 1944 H. Evert Kendig
• 1945 Joseph Rosin
• 1947 Rufus Ashley Lyman
• 1948 Andrew Grover DuMez
• 1949 Ernest Little
• 1950 Edwin Leigh Newcomb
• 1951 Hugo H. Schaefer
• 1952 Patrick Henry Costello
• 1953 Hugh C. Muldoon
• 1955 Roy Bird Cook
• 1956 Frank W. Moudry
• 1957 W. Paul Briggs
• 1958 Eli Lilly
  Eli Lilly (industrialist)
  Eli Lilly was a pharmaceutical industrialist and philanthropist from Indiana, United States.- Business :Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Eli Lilly was President of Eli Lilly and Company. He was named for his grandfather, Colonel Eli Lilly, who founded the family business...
  
  
• 1959 Justin L. Powers
• 1960 Ivor Griffith
• 1962 Harry J. Anslinger
  Harry J. Anslinger
  Harry Jacob Anslinger held office as the Assistant Prohibition Commissioner in the Bureau of Prohibition, before being appointed as the first Commissioner of the U.S. Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics on August 12, 1930.Anslinger held office an unprecedented 32 years in his role...
  
  
• 1963 Glenn L. Jenkins
• 1964 Robert A. Hardt
• 1965 K. K. Chen
  K. K. Chen
  K. K. Chen was a world-renowned scientist who headed up pharmacological research at Eli Lilly and Company for 34 years. He is known for his work with ephedrine, cyanide poisoning therapy, and toad venom steroids. Tops among his many awards and recognitions is the prestigious Remington Honor...
  
  
• 1967 William S. Apple
• 1969 George F. Archambault
  George F. Archambault
  George F. Archambault, Ph.G., Ph.C., J.D. was the first pharmacy liaison officer for the United States Public Health Service and considered the “father of consultant pharmacy”. On April 22, 1999, for his 90th birthday party, Deputy Surgeon General Kenneth P...
  
  
• 1970 Donald E. Francke
• 1971 Linwood F. Tice
• 1972 Glenn Sonnedecker
• 1973 Grover C. Bowles
• 1974 Lloyd M. Parks
• 1975 Albert Doerr
• 1976 Melvin W. Green
• 1977 David J. Krigstein
• 1978 Eugene V. White
• 1980 Joseph D. Williams
• 1983 Takeru Higuchi
• 1984 William M. Heller
• 1985 William L. Blockstein
• 1986 Irving Rubin
• 1987 Gloria N. Francke
• 1988 Peter P. Lamy
• 1989 Lawrence C. Weaver
• 1990 Joseph A. Oddis
• 1991 George B. Griffenhagen
• 1992 Jere E. Goyan
• 1993 Robert C. Johnson
• 1994 James T. Doluisio
• 1995 Max W. Eggleston
• 1996 Maurice Q. Bectel
• 1997 C. Douglas Hepler, Linda M. Strand
• 1998 Kenneth N. Barker
• 1999 Carl F. Emswiller, Jr.
• 2000 Daniel A. Nona
• 2001 Jerome A. Halperin
• 2002 Richard P. Penna
• 2003 Mary Louise Andersen
• 2004 Lowell J. Anderson
• 2005 Robert J. Osterhaus
• 2006 Robert D. Gibson
• 2007 Ernest Mario
  Ernest Mario
  Ernest Mario is an American pharmaceutical industry executive and the recipient of the 2007 Remington Honor Medal awarded by the American Pharmacists Association....
  
  
• 2008 J. Lyle Bootman
• 2009 John A. Gans
• 2010 Mary Anne Koda-Kimble
• 2011 Paul W. Lofholm

External links

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