ACS 2010 National Award Winners

Following are the recipients of awards administered by ACS for 2010. Vignettes of the award recipients will appear in C&EN in early 2010. With the exception of the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards, these recipients will be honored at the Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, in conjunction with the 239th ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

  • ACS Award for Achievement in Research for the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry
    - Winner: Michael R. Abraham (University of Oklahoma)
    - Sponsor: Pearson Education
  • ACS Award for Affordable Green Chemistry
    - Winners: Vincent J. D’Amico (Lummus Global Inc.), Emanuel (Emiel) H. van Broekhoven (Albermarle Catalysts Company, Netherlands), Juha Jakkula (Neste Oil, Finland)
    - Sponsor: Rohm and Haas Company
  • ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research
    - Winner: Kenneth M. Merz, Jr. (University of Florida)
    - Sponsor: ACS
  • ACS Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology
    - Winner: Kimberly A. Prather (University of California, San Diego)
    - Sponsor: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. in memory of Joseph J. Breen
  • ACS Award for Creative Invention
    - Winner: David Walt (Tufts University)
    - Sponsor: ACS Corporation Associates
  • ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry
    - Winner: Russell P. Hughes (Dartmouth College)
    - Sponsor: Honeywell
  • ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
    - Winner: Ei-ichi Negishi (Purdue University)
    - Sponsor: Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc.
  • ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry
    - Winner: Richard D. Adams (University of South Carolina)
    - Sponsor: Strem Chemicals, Inc.
  • ACS Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences
    - Winner: Robert L. Lichter (Merrimack Consultants, LLC)
    - Sponsor: The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.
  • ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences
    - Winner: Mildred S. Dresselhaus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    - Sponsor: The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.
  • ACS Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution
    - Winner: Thomas J. Wenzel (Bates College)
    - Sponsor: Research Corporation for Science Advancement
  • ACS Award for Team Innovation
    - Winners: Daniel Cordova, John H. Freudenberger, Thomas P. Selby, and Thomas M. Stevenson (DuPont Crop Protection)
    - Sponsor: ACS Corporation Associates
  • ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry
    - Winner: Richard P. Van Duyne (Northwestern University)
    - Sponsor: Battelle Memorial Institute
  • ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science
    - Winner: Andrew J. Lovinger (National Science Foundation)
    - Sponsor: Eastman Chemical Company
  • ACS Award in Chromatography
    - Winner: Udo A.T. Brinkman (Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
    - Sponsor: Supelco, Inc.
  • ACS Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry
    - Winner: Moungi G. Bawendi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    - Sponsor: Procter & Gamble Company
  • ACS Award in Industrial Chemistry
    - Winner: James A. Cella (GE Global Research)
    - Sponsor: ACS Division of Business Development and Management and the Society of Chemical Manufactures and Affiliates, Inc.
  • ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry
    - Winner: Donald J. Darensbourg (Texas A&M University)
    - Sponsor: Aldrich Chemical Co., Inc.
  • ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry
    - Winner: Clark Landis (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    - Sponsor: Dow Chemical Co. Foundation
  • ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry
    - Winner: Timothy P. Lodge (University of Minnesota)
    - Sponsor: ExxonMobil Chemical Co.
  • ACS Award in Pure Chemistry
    - Winner: Phillippe S. Baran (The Scripps Research Institute)
    - Sponsor: Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity and Alpha Chi Sigma Educational Foundation
  • ACS Award in Separations Science and Technology
    - Winner: Janusz Pawliszyn (University of Waterloo, Canada)
    - Sponsor: Waters Corp.
  • ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials
    - Winner: Robert D. Miller (IBM Almaden Research Center)
    - Sponsor: E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
  • ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry
    - Winner: Björn O. Roos (Lund University)
    - Sponsor: Dell Incorporated
  • Award for Volunteer Service to the American Chemical Society
    - Winner: Margaret A. Cavanaugh (National Science Foundation)
    - Sponsor: ACS
  • Arthur W. Adamson Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Surface Chemistry
    - Winner: Patricia A. Thiel (Iowa State University)
    - Sponsor: ACS
  • Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry
    - Winner: Joan Selverstone Valentine (University of California, Los Angeles)
    - Sponsor: Alfred R. Bader Fund
  • Earle B. Barnes Award for Leadership in Chemical Research Management
    - Winner: John L. LaMattina (Pfizer Global Research and Development)
    - Sponsor: Dow Chemical Company
  • Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry
    - Winner: Stephen J. Lippard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    - Sponsor: Ronald Breslow Endowment
  • Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods
    - Winner: Larry E. Overman (University of California, Irvine)
    - Sponsor: Purdue Borane Research Fund and the Herbert C. Brown Award Endowment
  • Alfred Burger Award in Medicinal Chemistry
    - Winner: Edward C. Taylor (Princeton University)
    - Sponsor: GlaxoSmithKline
  • James Bryant Conant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching
    - Winner: Jeffrey Hepburn (Central Academy, Magnet School for Talented & Gifted Students)
    - Sponsor: Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
  • Arthur C. Cope Award
    - Winner: Kendall N. Houk (University of California, Los Angeles)
    - Sponsor: Arthur C. Cope Fund,
  • Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards
    - Winners: Helen E. Blackwell (The University of Wisconsin–Madison), Christopher Chang (University of California, Berkeley), John A. Gerlt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Arun K. Ghosh (Purdue University), Jeffrey Johnson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Robert A. Moss (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), Eiichi Nakamura (The University of Tokyo, Japan), Matthew S. Sigman (University of Utah), Alice Y. Ting (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Maria Christina White (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
    - Sponsor: The Arthur C. Cope Fund
  • Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Original Contribution in Organic Synthesis by a Young Investigator
    - Winner: Mohammad Movassaghi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    - Sponsor: Pfizer Endowment Fund
  • F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry
    - Winner: Lawrence F. Dahl (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    - Sponsor: F. Albert Cotton Endowment Fund
  • Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry
    - Winner: George Schatz (Northwestern University)
    - Sponsor: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
  • Frank H. Field and Joe L. Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry
    - Winner: Catherine Costello (Boston University School of Medicine)
    - Sponsor: Waters Corp.
  • Francis P. Garvan – John M. Olin Medal
    - Winner: Judith C. Giordan (University of Southern Mississippi, Visions in Education, Inc, and Steel City Re, LLC)
    - Sponsor: Francis P. Garvan-John M. Olin Medal Endowment
  • James T. Grady – James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public
    - Winner: Ron Seely (Wisconsin State Journal)
    - Sponsor: ACS
  • Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products
    -Winner: Michael T. Crimmins (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
    - Sponsor: Givaudan
  • Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids
    - Winner: Peter Rossky (University of Texas)
    - Sponsor: ExxonMobil Research & Engineering, Co.
  • Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry
    - Winner: Stephen J. Benkovic (The Pennsylvania State University)
    - Sponsor: Merck Research Laboratories
  • Ipatieff Prize
    - Winner: Christopher W. Jones (Georgia Institute of Technology)
    - Sponsor: Ipatieff Trust through Northwestern University
  • Frederic Stanley Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry
    - Winner: Yitzhak Apeloig (Technion, Israel)
    - Sponsor: The Dow Corning Corporation
  • Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics
    - Winner: A. Welford Castleman, Jr. (The Pennsylvania State University)
    - Sponsor: General Electric and Global Research and the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry
  • E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
    - Winner: Gregory N. Stephanopoulos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    - Sponsor: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co.
  • Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry
    - Winners: Sang-Hee Shim (student, Harvard University) and Martin T. Zanni (preceptor, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    - Sponsor: Mallinckrodt Baker, Inc.
  • James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry
    - Winner: John E. Baldwin (Syracuse University)
    - Sponsor: ACS Northeastern Section
  • George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry
    - Winner: Peter C. Stair (Northwestern University)
    - Sponsor: George A. Olah Award Endowment
  • George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education
    - Winner: Zafra J. Margolin Lerman (Columbia College Chicago)
    - Sponsor: Cengage Publishing and ACS
  • Priestley Medal
    - Winner: Richard N. Zare (Stanford University)
    - Sponsor: ACS
  • Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry
    - Winner: Lee G. Sobotka (Washington University)
    - Sponsor: ACS Division of Nuclear Chemistry & Technology
  • Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis
    - Winner: Robert J. Madix (Harvard University)
    - Sponsor: Gabor A. and Judith K. Somorjai Endowment Fund
  • E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy
    - Winner: George W. Flynn (Columbia University)
    - Sponsor: Coherent, Inc and ACS
  • Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology
    - Winner: Paul Corkum (National Research Council, University of Ottawa, Canada)
    - Sponsor: Ahmed Zewail Endowment Fund