Priestley Medal

(left photo) M. Frederick Hawthorne, 2009 Priestley Medal recipient; (right
photo) Robert Churchill (center) accepting the award on Hawthorne's
behalf from ACS President-Elect Joseph Francisco (left) and ACS President
Thomas Lane (right)

Purpose: To recognize distinguished services to chemistry.

Nature: The award consists of a gold medallion designed to commemorate the work of Joseph Priestley with a presentation box and a certificate. It may not be awarded more than once to the same individual. Up to $2,500 for travel expenses to the meeting at which the award will be presented will be reimbursed.

Eligibility: The medal may be awarded not only to members of the Society but also to nonmembers and to representatives of any nation. Members of the ACS Board of Directors are ineligible to receive this award.

Deadline: November 1 (annual review).

Establishment & Support: Established by ACS in 1922

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 M. Frederick Hawthorne

2008 Gabor A. Somorjai

2007 George M. Whitesides

2006 Paul S. Anderson

2005 George A. Olah

2004 Elias J. Corey

2003 Edwin J. Vandenberg

2002 Allen J. Bard

2001 Fred Basolo

2000 Darleane C. Hoffman

1999 Ronald Breslow

1998 F. Albert Cotton

1997 Mary L. Good

1996 Ernest L. Eliel

1995 Sir Derek H. R. Barton

1994 Howard E. Simmons

1993 Robert W. Parry

1992 Carl Djerassi

1991 Harry B. Gray

1990 Roald Hoffmann

1989 George C. Pimentel

1988 Frank H. Westheimer

1987 John D. Roberts

1986 Karl A. Folkers

1985 Henry Taube

1984 Linus Pauling

1983 Robert S. Mulliken

1982 Bryce Crawford, Jr.

1981 Herbert C. Brown

1980 Milton Harris

1979 Glenn T. Seaborg

1978 Melvin Calvin

1977 Henry Gilman

1976 George S. Hammond

1975 Henry Eyring

1974 Paul J. Flory

1973 Harold C. Urey

1972 George B. Kistiakowsky

1971 Frederick D. Rossini

1970 Max Tishler

1969 Kenneth S. Pitzer

1968 William G. Young

1967 Ralph Connor

1966 William Oliver Baker

1965 William J. Sparks

1964 John C. Bailar, Jr.

1963 Peter J. W. Debye

1962 Joel H. Hildebrand

1961 Louis P. Hammett

1960 Wallace R. Brode

1959 H. I. Schlesinger

1958 Ernest H. Volwiler

1957 Farrington Daniels

1956 Carl S. Marvel

1955 Charles A. Thomas

1954 W. Albert Noyes, Jr.

1953 Robert Robinson

1952 Samuel C. Lind

1951 E. J. Crane

1950 Charles A. Kraus

1949 Arthur B. Lamb

1948 Edward R. Weidlein

1947 Warren K. Lewis

1946 Roger Adams

1945 Ian Heilbron

1944 James B. Conant

1941 Thomas Midgley, Jr.

1938 Marston T. Bogert

1935 William A. Noyes

1932 Charles L. Parsons

1929 Francis P. Garvan

1926 Edgar F. Smith

1923 Ira Remsen