Nomination Procedures
What are the criteria?
- The invention or innovation must demonstrate innovation, commercialization of a product or process, commercial success, and be a value to society.
- The work should have been done in the respective region.
- A patent should have been awarded for the product or process, although some commercial process innovations may also qualify if care is taken to explain the nature of the innovation.
Who is eligible?
- Nominees must be chemists or chemical engineers who are ACS members.
- For team nominations, only one member needs to be an ACS member.
- Those who are not ACS members but are employed by an ACS Corporation Associates member company qualify for nomination.
How to place a nomination?
- Any ACS member may submit a nomination for eligible chemists or chemical engineers. Management approval is required.
- A biographical sketch of the nominee(s) is required.
- A letter of not more than 1,000 words containing an evaluation of the nominee's accomplishments, description of the invention or innovation, listing of relevant patents, publications, or reports
- Apply online or download a to mail, fax or e-mail your application. (Nominations will remain valid for three years unless the nominator indicates otherwise.) .
Completed nomination packages can be sent three ways:
E-mail: cheminnovations@acs.org .
Fax: (202) 872-6098.
Mail:
Attn: Joy Titus-Young
American Chemical Society
Office of Corporation Associates
1155 Sixteenth Street, NW,
Washington, D.C. 20036.