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 Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036-4801
Phone: 202-872-4575
Fax: 202-776-8008
awards@acs.org
Recipient
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
