Nakanishi Prize
Sponsor: The Nakanishi Prize Endowment
Purpose: To recognize and stimulate significant work that extends chemical and spectroscopic methods to the study of important biological phenomena.
Nature: The prize consists of $5,000, a medallion with a presentation box, and a certificate. Up to $2,500 for travel expenses to the meeting at which the award will be presented will be reimbursed. Presentations in odd-numbered years are administered by the ACS and in even-numbered years by the Chemical Society of Japan. The medallion will be presented during the award address.
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 for outstanding scientific achievement. Special consideration will be given for work that has contributed broadly on an international scope.
Establishment & Support: The prize was established in 1995 by the students and colleagues of Koji Nakanishi in the United States and Japan and by members of the scientific community of both countries who have benefited by his nurturing of collaborative and interdisciplinary science. Consequently the prize is given in the U.S. and in Japan in alternate years through the designated Societies. The separate endowments are administered accordingly.
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
2017 Martin Gruebele
2016 Shoichi Kusumoto*
2015 Fred W. McLafferty
2014 Jerrold Meinwald*
2013 Arthur G. Palmer, III
2012 Daisuke Uemura*
2011 C. Dale Poulter
2010 Shosuke Yamamura*
2009 JoAnne Stubbe
2007 Hung-wen Liu
2005 Stephen J. Benkovic
2003 A. Ian Scott
2001 John D. Roberts
1999 Jeremy R. Knowles
1997 Frank H. Westheimer
1996 Yoshimasa Hirata*
1998 Albert J. Eschenmoser*
2000 Satoshi Omura*
2002 Sir Jack Baldwin*
2004 Isao Kitagawa*
2006 Takeshi Yasumoto*
2008 Michel Rohmer*
*Selection and presentation made by the Chemical Society of Japan.
