
Sponsor: The Procter & Gamble Co.
Purpose: To recognize and encourage outstanding scientific contributions to colloid and/or surface chemistry in North America.
Nature: The award consists of $5,000 and a certificate. Up to $2,500 for travel expenses to the meeting at which the award will be presented will be reimbursed.
Eligibility: The nominee must be a resident of North America and must have made outstanding scientific contributions to colloid and/or surface chemistry. Recognition will also be given to originality and independence of thought, and to the technological impact of the nominee's contribution.
Deadline: November 1 (annual review).
Establishment & Support: The Procter & Gamble Co. assumed sponsorship in 1994. The ACS Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry was established in 1952 and supported until 1993 by the Kendall Co.
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2009 Jacob N. Israelachvili
2008 Lee R. White
2007 William B. Russel
2006 Alice P. Gast
2005 A. Paul Alivisatos
2004 Joseph A. Zasadzinski
2003 Clayton J. Radke
2002 Charles M. Knobler
2001 Charles T. Campbell
2000 Darsh T. Wasan
1999 Nicholas J. Turro
1998 Eric W. Kaler
1997 Harden M. McConnell
1996 T. G. M. van de Ven
1995 Thomas Engel
1994 J. Kerry Thomas
1993 D. Wayne Goodman
1992 David G. Whitten
1991 W. Henry Weinberg
1990 J. Michael White
1989 Arthur T. Hubbard
1988 Howard Brenner
1987 John T. Yates, Jr.
1986 Eli Ruckenstein
1985 Stig E. Friberg
1984 Brian E. Conway
1983 Janos H. Fendler
1982 Gert Ehrlich
1981 Gabor A. Somorjai
1980 Howard Reiss
1979 Arthur W. Adamson
1978 Harold A. Scheraga
1977 Michel Boudart
1976 Robert J. Good
1975 Robert Gomer
1974 W. Keith Hall
1973 Robert L. Burwell, Jr.
1972 Egon Matijevic
1971 Milton Kerker
1970 Jerome Vinograd
1969 Terrell L. Hill
1968 Albert C. Zettlemoyer
1967 Stanley G. Mason
1966 Robert S. Hansen
1965 George D. Halsey, Jr.
1964 Karol J. Mysels
1963 William Albert Zisman
1962 George Scatchard
1961 Stephen Brunauer
1960 John D. Ferry
1959 Floyd E. Bartell
1958 Paul H. Emmett
1957 Peter J. W. Debye
1956 Victor K. La Mer
1955 John W. Williams
1954 Harry N. Holmes