Sponsor: George A. Olah Award Endowment
Purpose: To recognize, encourage, and stimulate outstanding research achievements in hydrocarbon or petroleum chemistry.
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 award will be granted regardless of race, gender, age, religion, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, presence of disabilities, and educational background. A nominee must be a resident of the United States or Canada and have accomplished outstanding research in the chemistry of hydrocarbons or petroleum and its products. Special consideration will be given to independence of thought and originality.
Deadline: November 1 (annual review).
Establishment & Support: The award was established in 1948 as the ACS Award in Petroleum Chemistry and was sponsored by the Precision Scientific Co. until 1973. The Lubrizol Corp. sponsored the award from 1976 to 1985. No awards were presented in 1974 and 1975. The Amoco Foundation sponsored the award from 1986 to 1994. Since 1997, the award, under the above title, has been supported through a fund initially created by donations from the Morris S. Smith Foundation and the Dow Chemical Co.
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2013 Alexis T. Bell
2012 James A. Dumesic
2011 Lawrence T. Scott
2010 Peter C. Stair
2009 Cynthia M. Friend
2008 Israel E. Wachs
2007 Bruce E. Koel
2006 G.K. Surya Prakash
2005 Enrique Iglesia
2004 Michael Siskin
2003 Peter J. Stang
2002 Gary B. McVicker
2001 Francisco Zaera
2000 James F. Haw
1999 John E. Bercaw
1998 Arthur R. Goldsby
1997 Roby Bearden, Jr.
1996 Jack H. Lunsford
1995 John M. Prausnitz
1994 Teh Fu Yen
1993 Bruce C. Gates
1992 Wolfgang M. H. Sachtler
1991 David M. Grant
1990 Robert K. Grasselli
1989 Thomas Aczel
1988 Werner O. Haag
1987 W. Keith Hall
1986 Frederick G. Bordwell
1985 Edward M. Arnett
1984 Cheves Walling
1983 Robert L. Burwell, Jr.
1982 Irving Wender
1981 Herman Pines
1980 William A. Pryor
1979 Robert L. Banks
1978 Ellis K. Fields
1977 Sidney W. Benson
1976 John H. Sinfelt
1973 Joe W. Hightower
1972 Paul G. Gassman
1971 Gerasimos J. Karabatsos
1970 Lloyd R. Snyder
1969 Alan Schriesheim
1968 Keith U. Ingold
1967 Andrew Streitwieser, Jr.
1966 James Wei
1965 Glen A. Russell
1964 George A. Olah
1963 John P. McCullough
1962 Harold Hart
1961 George S. Hammond
1960 Robert W. Taft, Jr.
1959 George C. Pimentel
1958 Robert P. Eischens
1957 C. Gardner Swain
1956 Milburn J. O'Neal, Jr.
1955 Frank Ciapetta
1954 Arthur P. Lien
1953 Robert W. Schiessler
1952 Vladimir Haensel
1951 Louis Schmerling
1950 Kenneth S. Pitzer
1949 Bruce H. Sage
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