George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education
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2009 recipient Henry Heikkinen (second to right)
is presented his award by sponsor representatives
Lisa Lockwood (center) Thomas Greenbowe
(second to left) ACS President-Elect Joseph
Francisco (left) and ACS President Thomas
Lane (right).
is presented his award by sponsor representatives
Lisa Lockwood (center) Thomas Greenbowe
(second to left) ACS President-Elect Joseph
Francisco (left) and ACS President Thomas
Lane (right).
Sponsor: Cengage Publishing and the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Education.
Purpose: To recognize outstanding contributions to chemical education.
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: A nominee must have made outstanding contributions to chemical education considered in its broadest meaning, including the training of professional chemists; the dissemination of reliable information about chemistry to prospective chemists, members of the profession, students in other fields, and the general public; and the integration of chemistry into our educational system. The activities recognized by the award may be in the fields of teaching (at any level), organization and administration, influential writing, educational research, the methodology of instruction, the establishment of standards of instruction, and public enlightenment. Preference will be given to US citizens.
Deadline: November 1 (annual review).
Establishment & Support: Cengage Publishing will begin a co-sponsorship of the award with the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Education in 2009. Rohm and Haas Company sponsored the award in 2007 and 2008. From 2001 to 2006, the Dow Chemical Co. Inc. continued sponsoring the award upon its merger with Union Carbide Corp. (1978 - 2000). The award was established as the ACS Award in Chemical Education in 1950 by Scientific Apparatus Makers Assoc. and financed by its Laboratory Apparatus and Optical Sections through 1976. The ACS Board of Directors voted for ACS sponsorship of the award in 1977 and 2002.
Contact Information
Awards Office
American Chemical Society
1155 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036-4801
Phone: (202) 872-4408
Fax: (202) 776-8008
awards@acs.org
Recipient
2009 Henry W. Heikkinen
2008 Richard N. Zare
2007 A. Truman Schwartz
2006 F. Albert Cotton
2005 James N. Spencer
2004 Nicholas J. Turro
2003 George M. Bodner
2002 Michael P. Doyle
2001 Harry B. Gray
2000 Jerry A. Bell
1999 Mary Virginia Orna
1998 Stanley G. Smith
1997 Arthur B. Ellis
1996 Roald Hoffmann
1995 Ernest L. Eliel
1994 Glenn T. Seaborg
1993 George B. Kauffman
1992 Fred Basolo
1991 John W. Moore
1990 George C. Pimentel
1989 Joseph J. Lagowski
1988 Marjorie H. Gardner
1987 Linus Pauling
1986 Bassam Z. Shakhashiri
1985 Glenn A. Crosby
1984 Arthur W. Adamson
1983 Michell J. Sienko
1982 Anna J. Harrison
1981 Derek A. Davenport
1980 Henry A. Bent
1979 Gilbert P. Haight, Jr.
1978 Lloyd N. Ferguson
1977 Robert W. Parry
1976 Leallyn B. Clapp
1975 William T. Lippincott
1974 George S. Hammond
1973 Robert C. Brasted
1972 J. Arthur Campbell
1971 Laurence E. Strong
1970 Hubert N. Alyea
1969 L. Carroll King
1968 William F. Kieffer
1967 Louis F. Fieser
1966 W. Conway Pierce
1965 Theodore A. Ashford
1964 Alfred B. Garrett
1963 Edward L. Haenisch
1962 William G. Young
1961 John C. Bailar, Jr.
1960 Arthur F. Scott
1959 Harry F. Lewis
1958 Frank E. Brown
1957 Norris W. Rakestraw
1956 Otto M. Smith
1955 Gerrit Van Zyl
1954 Raymond E. Kirk
1953 Howard J. Lucas
1952 Joel H. Hildebrand