Nakanishi Prize

Sponsor: The Nakanishi Prize Endowment

Purpose: To recognize and stimulate significant work that extends chemical and spectroscopic methods to the study of important biological phenomena.

Nature: The prize consists of $3,000, a medallion with a presentation box, and a certificate. Up to $2,500 for travel expenses to the meeting at which the award will be presented will be reimbursed. Presentations in odd-numbered years are administered by the ACS and in even-numbered years by the Chemical Society of Japan. The medallion will be presented during the award address.

Eligibility: The prize will be awarded without regard to age or nationality for outstanding scientific achievement. Special consideration will be given for work that has contributed broadly on an international scope.

Establishment & Support: The prize was established in 1995 by the students and colleagues of Koji Nakanishi in the United States and Japan and by members of the scientific community of both countries who have benefited by his nurturing of collaborative and interdisciplinary science. Consequently the prize is given in the U.S. and in Japan in alternate years through the designated Societies. The separate endowments are administered accordingly.

Nomination forms

Contact Information

Awards Office
American Chemical Society
1155 16^th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036-4801
Phone: 202-872-4408
Fax: 202-776-8008
awards@acs.org

Recipient

2009 JoAnne Stubbe

2007 Hung-wen Liu

2005 Stephen J. Benkovic

2003 A. Ian Scott

2001 John D. Roberts

1999 Jeremy R. Knowles

1997 Frank H. Westheimer

1996 Yoshimasa Hirata*

1998 Albert J. Eschenmoser*

2000 Satoshi Omura*

2002 Sir Jack Baldwin*

2004 Isao Kitagawa*

2006 Takeshi Yasumoto*

2008 Michel Rohmer*

*Selection and presentation made by the Chemical Society of Japan.