George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry
Sponsor: George A. Olah Award Endowment
Purpose: To recognize, encourage, and stimulate outstanding research achievements in hydrocarbon or petroleum chemistry.
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. A nominee must be a resident of the United States or Canada and have accomplished outstanding research in the chemistry of hydrocarbons or petroleum and its products. Special consideration will be given to independence of thought and originality.
Deadline: November 1 (annual review).
Establishment & Support: Since 1997, the award, under the above title, has been supported through a fund initially created by donations from the Morris S. Smith Foundation and the Dow Chemical Co. No awards were presented in 1974 and 1975. The Amoco Foundation sponsored the award from 1986 to 1994. The Lubrizol Corp. sponsored the award from 1976 to 1985. The award was established in 1948 as the ACS Award in Petroleum Chemistry and was sponsored by the Precision Scientific Co. until 1973.
Contact Information
Awards Office
American Chemical Society
1155 16th St., NW
Washington, D.C. 20036-4801
Phone: 202-872-4575
Fax: 202-776-8008
awards@acs.org
Recipient
2019: Chunshan Song
2018: Oliver C. Mullins
2017: Robert H. Grubbs
2016: Mieczyslaw M. Boduszynski
2015: Jingguang G. Chen
2014: Robert G. Bergman
2013: Alexis T. Bell
2012: James A. Dumesic
2011: Lawrence T. Scott
2010: Peter C. Stair
2009: Cynthia M. Friend
2008: Israel E. Wachs
2007: Bruce E. Koel
2006: G.K. Surya Prakash
2005: Enrique Iglesia
2004: Michael Siskin
2003: Peter J. Stang
2002: Gary B. McVicker
2001: Francisco Zaera
2000: James F. Haw
1999: John E. Bercaw
1998: Arthur R. Goldsby
1997: Roby Bearden, Jr.
1996: Jack H. Lunsford
1995: John M. Prausnitz
1994: Teh Fu Yen
1993: Bruce C. Gates
1992: Wolfgang M. H. Sachtler
1991: David M. Grant
1990: Robert K. Grasselli
1989: Thomas Aczel
1988: Werner O. Haag
1987: W. Keith Hall
1986: Frederick G. Bordwell
1985: Edward M. Arnett
1984: Cheves Walling
1983: Robert L. Burwell, Jr.
1982: Irving Wender
1981: Herman Pines
1980: William A. Pryor
1979: Robert L. Banks
1978: Ellis K. Fields
1977: Sidney W. Benson
1976: John H. Sinfelt
1973: Joe W. Hightower
1972: Paul G. Gassman
1971: Gerasimos J. Karabatsos
1970: Lloyd R. Snyder
1969: Alan Schriesheim
1968: Keith U. Ingold
1967: Andrew Streitwieser, Jr.
1966: James Wei
1965: Glen A. Russell
1964: George A. Olah
1963: John P. McCullough
1962: Harold Hart
1961: George S. Hammond
1960: Robert W. Taft, Jr.
1959: George C. Pimentel
1958: Robert P. Eischens
1957: C. Gardner Swain
1956: Milburn J. O'Neal, Jr.
1955: Frank Ciapetta
1954: Arthur P. Lien
1953: Robert W. Schiessler
1952: Vladimir Haensel
1951: Louis Schmerling
1950: Kenneth S. Pitzer
1949: Bruce H. Sage
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