ACS Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology
Sponsor: Aerodyne and the ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry
Purpose: To encourage creativity in research and technology or methods of analysis to provide a scientific basis for informed environmental control decision-making processes, or to provide practical technologies that will reduce health risk factors.
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.
Deadline: November 1 (annual review).
Establishment & Support: Aerodyne and the ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry began sponsoring the award in 2020. The ACS and the ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry sponsored the award in 2019. The ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry and the ACS Publications journal Environmental Science & Technology and Environmental Science & Technology Letters sponsored the award from 2012 to 2018. The ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry sponsored the award in 2011. Air Products and Chemical, Inc. established the award in 1978 and sponsored the award until 2010.
Contact Information
Awards Office
American Chemical Society
1155 16th Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20036-4801
Phone: 202-872-4575
Fax: 202-776-8008
awards@acs.org
Recipient
2020: Kevin C. Jones
2019: Jerald L. Schnoor
2018: Barbara J. Turpin
2017: Douglas R. Worsnop
2016: Bruce E. Logan
2015: Paul B. Shepson
2014: Harold B. Dellinger
2013: Donald R. Blake
2012: Vicki H. Grassian
2011: Franåois Morel
2010: Kimberly A. Prather
2009: Margaret A. Tolbert
2008: Susan D. Richardson
2007: Richard C. Flagan
2006: RenÉ P. Schwarzenbach
2005: Akkihebbal R. Ravishankara
2004: Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts
2003: John W. Birks
2002: Roger Atkinson
2001: Michael R. Hoffmann
2000: Radhakrishna M. Jayanty
1999: Terry F. Bidleman and James F. Pankow
1998: Mario J. Molina
1997: Charles E. Kolb
1996: Donald H. Stedman
1995: Donna L. Bedard
1994: Steven J. Eisenreich
1993: John H. Seinfeld
1992: Glen E. Gordon
1991: Ronald A. Hites
1990: David M. Golden
1989: James G. Anderson
1988: A. Welford Castleman, Jr.
1987: Joseph C. Arcos
1986: Eugene E. Kenaga
1985: Arthur Fontijn
1984: Julian Heicklen
1983: F. Sherwood Rowland
1982: Jack G. Calvert
1981: Philip W. West
1980: James J. Morgan