ACS 2009 National Award Winners
Following are the recipients of awards administered by the American Chemical Society for 2009. Vignettes of the award recipients will appear in C&EN in early 2009. With the exception of the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards, these recipients will be honored at the Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, March 24, 2009, in conjunction with the 237th ACS national meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.
ACS Award for Achievement in Research for the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry sponsored by Pearson Education, Alexander Henry Johnstone, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
ACS Award for Affordable Green Chemistry sponsored and supported through an endowment established by the Rohm and Haas Company, Geoffrey W. Coates, Cornell University.
ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research sponsored by Schrödinger, Mark S. Gordon, Iowa State University.
ACS Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology sponsored by Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. in memory of Joseph J. Breen, Margaret A. Tolbert, University of Colorado, Boulder.
ACS Award for Creative Invention sponsored by Corporation Associates, Robert H. Grubbs, California Institute of Technology.
ACS Award for Creative Research and Applications of Iodine Chemistry sponsored by SQM S.A., Gerald F. Koser, University of Akron.
ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry sponsored by Honeywell, Henry Selig, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry sponsored by Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc., Hisashi Yamamoto, University of Chicago.
ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry sponsored by Strem Chemicals, Inc., Alan H. Cowley, The University of Texas, Austin.
ACS Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences sponsored by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., Shirley McBay, Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network.
ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences sponsored by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., Mary F. Singleton, University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Retired).
ACS Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution sponsored by the Research Corporation, Moses Lee, Hope College.
ACS Award for Team Innovation sponsored by ACS Corporation Associates, Hai-Ying Chen (Johnson Matthey Inc), Neal W. Currier (Cummins Inc), Howard S. Hess (Johnson Matthey Inc), Bradlee J. Stroia (Cummins Inc), Aleksey Yezerets (Cummins Inc).
ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry sponsored by Battelle Memorial Institute, Peter W. Carr, University of Minnesota.
ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science sponsored by Eastman Chemical Company, Benny D. Freeman, The University of Texas at Austin.
ACS Award in Chromatography sponsored by SUPELCO, Inc., Nobuo Tanaka, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan.
ACS Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry sponsored by the Procter & Gamble Company, Jacob N. Israelachvili, University of California, Santa Barbara.
ACS Award in Industrial Chemistry sponsored by ACS Division of Business Development and Management and the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association, George G. I. Moore, 3M.
ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry sponsored by Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc., Daniel G. Nocera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry sponsored by The Dow Chemical Company Foundation, Odile Eisenstein, Université Montpellier 2, France.
ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry sponsored by ExxonMobil Chemical Company, Takuzo Aida, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
ACS Award in Pure Chemistry sponsored by Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity and the Alpha Chi Sigma Educational Foundation, Garnet K.L. Chan, Cornell University.
ACS Award in Separations Science and Technology sponsored by Waters Corporation, Abraham M. Lenhoff, University of Delaware.
ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials sponsored by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Omar M. Yaghi, University of California, Los Angeles.
ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry sponsored by the American Chemical Society, Robert G. Parr, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Award for Volunteer Service to the American Chemical Society sponsored by the American Chemical Society, Mary Virginia Orna, College of New Rochelle.
Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry sponsored by Organic Reactions, Inc. and Organic Syntheses, Inc., Andrew Streitwieser, University of California, Berkeley.
Arthur W. Adamson Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Surface Chemistry sponsored by American Chemical Society, David A. King, Cambridge University, United Kingdom.
Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic and Bioorganic Chemistry sponsored by Alfred R. Bader, Kevin M. Smith, Louisiana State University.
Earle B. Barnes Award for Leadership in Chemical Research Management sponsored by The Dow Chemical Company, Gregg A. Zank, Dow Corning Corporation.
Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry sponsored by the Ronald Breslow Endowment, James P. Collman, Stanford University.
Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods sponsored by the Herbert C. Brown Award Endowment and the Purdue Borane Research Fund, Scott E. Denmark, University of Illinois.
James Bryant Conant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific, Sally B. Mitchell, East Syracuse-Minoa Central High School, East Syracuse, NY.
Arthur C. Cope Award sponsored by Arthur C. Cope Fund, Manfred T. Reetz, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Germany.
Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards sponsored by Arthur C. Cope Fund, Carlos F. Barbas III (The Scripps Research Institute), Paul J. Chirik (Cornell University), Victor J. Hruby (University of Arizona), William D. Jones (University of Rochester), Chaitan Khosla (Stanford University), Mohammad Movassaghi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Nicos A. Petasis (University of Southern California), John A. Porco, Jr. (Boston University), David H. Sherman (University of Michigan), Erik J. Sorensen (Princeton University).
Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Original Contribution in Organic Synthesis by a Young Investigator sponsored by the Pfizer Endowment Fund, Brian M. Stoltz, California Institute of Technology.
F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry sponsored by the F. Albert Cotton Endowment Fund, Kenneth D. Karlin, John Hopkins University.
Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry sponsored by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Richard J. Saykally, University of California, Berkeley.
Frank H. Field and Joe L. Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry sponsored by Waters Corporation, Peter B. Armentrout, University of Utah.
Francis P. Garvan-John M. Olin Medal sponsored by the Francis P. Garvan-John M. Olin Medal Endowment, Kathlyn A. Parker, State University of New York at Stony Brook .
James T. Grady - James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public sponsored by American Chemical Society, Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University.
Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products sponsored by Givaudan, Peter Wipf, University of Pittsburgh.
E. B. Hershberg Award for Important Discoveries in Medicinally Active Products sponsored by the Schering-Plough Research Institute, Choung Un Kim, Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids sponsored by ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, Graham R. Fleming, University of California, Berkeley.
Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry sponsored by Merck Research Laboratories, Morten P. Meldal, Carlsberg Laboratory, Denmark.
Claude S. Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry sponsored by the National Starch, LLC, Peter H. Seeberger, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Switzerland.
E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry sponsored by ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, Milorad (Mike) P. Dudukovic, Washington University, St. Louis.
Nakanishi Prize sponsored by Nakanishi Prize Endowment, JoAnne Stubbe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry sponsored by Mallinckrodt Baker Inc., Laura A. Banaszynski (student), The Rockefeller University and Thomas J. Wandless (preceptor), Stanford University.
James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry sponsored by the ACS Northeastern Section, Bernd Giese, University of Basel, Switzerland.
George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry sponsored by the George A. Olah Award Endowment, Cynthia M. Friend, Harvard University.
Charles Lathrop Parsons Award sponsored by the American Chemical Society, Glenn A. Crosby and Jane L. Crosby, Washington State University.
George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education sponsored by Cengage Publishing, Henry W. Heikkinen, University of Northern Colorado.
Priestley Medal sponsored by the American Chemical Society, M. Frederick Hawthorne, University of Missouri, Columbia.
Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry sponsored by the ACS Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Kenton J. Moody, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis sponsored by the Gabor A. and Judith K. Somorjai Endowment Fund, Jens K. Nørskov, Technical University of Denmark.
E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy sponsored by the American Chemical Society, Paul F. Barbara, The University of Texas, Austin.
Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology sponsored by the Ahmed Zewail Endowment Fund established by the Newport Coporation (Newport), Margaret M. Murnane and Henry Kapteyn, JILA, University of Colorado.
National Fresenius Award sponsored by Phi Lambda Upsilon, the National Honorary Chemical Society, Teri W. Odom, Northwestern University.