Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry
Purpose: To recognize and encourage research in nuclear and radiochemistry or their applications.
Nature: The award consists of $5,000 and a certificate. Up to $2,500 for expenses to the meeting at which the award will be presented will be reimbursed.
Eligibility: A nominee must have made outstanding contributions to nuclear or radiochemistry or to their applications. 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 Nuclear Chemistry and Technology began sponsoring the award in 2004. ACS sponsored the award in 2002 and 2003. The Gordon and Breach Publishing Group sponsored the award from 1996 to 2001. As the ACS Award for Nuclear Chemistry, it was supported by funds from a gift to the Society by an anonymous donor during 1990 to 1991 and in odd-numbered years from 1980 to 1985. In the intervening even-numbered years, it was sponsored by EG&G ORTEC. Sponsorship was assumed by Amersham Corp. from 1986 to 1989. The Nuclear-Chicago Corp. a subsidiary of G. D. Searle and Co. established a predecessor award, the ACS Award for Nuclear Applications in Chemistry, in 1953.
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: Sue Brannon Clark
2019: Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt
2018: Suresh C. Srivastava
2017: David L. Clark
2016: E. (Earl) Philip Horwitz
2015: Heino Nitsche
2014: Walter Loveland
2013: Richard G. Haire
2012: Silvia S. Jurisson
2011: David J. Morrissey
2010: Lee G. Sobotka
2009: Kenton J. Moody
2008: Romualdo T. deSouza
2007: Norbert G. Trautmann
2006: Steven W. Yates
2005: Luciano G. Moretto
2004: Donald G. Fleming
2003: Demetrios G. Sarantites
2002: Joanna S. Fowler
2001: William B. Walters
2000: Richard L. Hahn
1999: Karl-Ludwig Kratz
1998: Raymond K. Sheline
1997: Peter J. Armbruster
1996: William D. Ehmann
1995: Joseph B. Natowitz
1994: E. Kenneth Hulet
1993: Richard M. Diamond
1992: Robert N. Clayton
1991: John M. Alexander
1990: Michael J. Welch
1989: Ronald D. Macfarlane
1988: Guenter Herrmann
1987: Ellis P. Steinberg
1986: Victor E. Viola
1985: Gregory R. Choppin
1984: Joseph Cerny
1983: Darleane C. Hoffman
1982: Leo Yaffe
1981: Robert Vandenbosch
1980: Arthur M. Poskanzer
1979: Raymond Davis, Jr.
1978: Paul K. Kuroda
1977: Glen E. Gordon
1976: John O. Rasmussen
1975: John R. Huizenga
1974: Lawrence E. Glendenin
1973: Albert Ghiorso
1972: Anthony Turkevich
1971: Alfred P. Wolf
1970: Paul R. Fields
1969: George E. Boyd
1968: Richard L. Wolfgang
1967: Gerhart Friedlander
1966: Arthur C. Wahl
1965: Stanley G. Thompson
1964: Isadore Perlman
1963: Martin D. Kamen
1962: Truman P. Kohman
1961: Joseph J. Katz
1960: Charles D. Coryell
1959: John E. Willard
1958: Jacob Bigeleisen
1957: Melvin Calvin
1956: Willard F. Libby
1955: Henry Taube