George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education
Sponsor: Cengage Learning and the ACS Division of Chemical Education
Purpose: To recognize outstanding contributions to chemical education.
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: A nominee must have made outstanding contributions to chemical education considered in its broadest meaning, including the training of professional chemists; the dissemination of reliable information about chemistry to prospective chemists, members of the profession, students in other fields, and the general public; and the integration of chemistry into our educational system. The activities recognized by the award may be in the fields of teaching (at any level), organization and administration, influential writing, educational research, the methodology of instruction, the establishment of standards of instruction, and public enlightenment. 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: The ACS Division of Chemical Education began co-sponsoring the award with Cengage Learning in 2015. Cengage Learning and friends and colleagues of George and Jeanne Pimentel sponsorsed the award from 2012-2014. Cengage Learning and the American Chemical Society co-sponsored the award in 2010 and 2011. Cengage Learning and the ACS Division of Chemical Education co-sponsored the award in 2009. Rohm and Haas Company sponsored the award in 2007 and 2008. From 2001 to 2006, the Dow Chemical Co. Inc. continued sponsoring the award upon its merger with Union Carbide Corp. (1978 - 2000). The award was established as the ACS Award in Chemical Education in 1950 by Scientific Apparatus Makers Association and financed by its Laboratory Apparatus and Optical Sections through 1976. The ACS Board of Directors voted for ACS sponsorship of the award in 1977 and 2002.
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
2020 Thomas J. Wenzel
2019 Catherine H. Middlecamp
2018 Pratibha Varma-Nelson
2017 Thomas A. Holme
2016 Richard S. Moog
2015 I. Dwaine Eubanks
2014 Thomas J. Greenbowe
2013 Conrad L. Stanitski
2012 Diane M. Bunce
2011 William R. Robinson
2010 Zafra J. Margolin Lerman
2009 Henry W. Heikkinen
2008 Richard N. Zare
2007 A. Truman Schwartz
2006 F. Albert Cotton
2005 James N. Spencer
2004 Nicholas J. Turro
2003 George M. Bodner
2002 Michael P. Doyle
2001 Harry B. Gray
2000 Jerry A. Bell
1999 Mary Virginia Orna
1998 Stanley G. Smith
1997 Arthur B. Ellis
1996 Roald Hoffmann
1995 Ernest L. Eliel
1994 Glenn T. Seaborg
1993 George B. Kauffman
1992 Fred Basolo
1991 John W. Moore
1990 George C. Pimentel
1989 Joseph J. Lagowski
1988 Marjorie H. Gardner
1987 Linus Pauling
1986 Bassam Z. Shakhashiri
1985 Glenn A. Crosby
1984 Arthur W. Adamson
1983 Michell J. Sienko
1982 Anna J. Harrison
1981 Derek A. Davenport
1980 Henry A. Bent
1979 Gilbert P. Haight, Jr.
1978 Lloyd N. Ferguson
1977 Robert W. Parry
1976 Leallyn B. Clapp
1975 William T. Lippincott
1974 George S. Hammond
1973 Robert C. Brasted
1972 J. Arthur Campbell
1971 Laurence E. Strong
1970 Hubert N. Alyea
1969 L. Carroll King
1968 William F. Kieffer
1967 Louis F. Fieser
1966 W. Conway Pierce
1965 Theodore A. Ashford
1964 Alfred B. Garrett
1963 Edward L. Haenisch
1962 William G. Young
1961 John C. Bailar, Jr.
1960 Arthur F. Scott
1959 Harry F. Lewis
1958 Frank E. Brown
1957 Norris W. Rakestraw
1956 Otto M. Smith
1955 Gerrit Van Zyl
1954 Raymond E. Kirk
1953 Howard J. Lucas
1952 Joel H. Hildebrand
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