Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry
Sponsor: Avantor
Purpose: To recognize an outstanding graduate student and her or his preceptor(s), in the field of chemistry, as broadly defined.
Nature: The graduate student will receive $3,000 and a plaque inscribed with the signatures of Nobel laureates. The student's preceptor(s) will receive $3,000 and a plaque for permanent display in the institution's chemistry department. Up to $2,500 for travel expenses to the meeting at which the award will be presented will be reimbursed by the sponsor.
Eligibility: The graduate student nominee must have completed a Ph.D. dissertation in chemistry within the 12-month period before the deadline for receipt of nominations. The award will recognize only work done while the nominee was a graduate student. 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.
Nominating Procedure: A nomination consists of (1) a nominator form including a brief biographical sketch of the graduate student nominee and the preceptor(s); (2) a synopsis of the nominee's Ph.D. dissertation no longer than 10 typewritten pages (double-spaced); and (3) one or two support forms from experts in the field of the dissertation independently appraising its significance. All documents must be in English.
Note: The Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry is sponsored by Avantor. Designation of the award as the Nobel Laureate Signature Award is made with the acquiescence of the Nobel Foundation.
Deadline: November 1
Establishment & Support: The award was established in 1978 by Avantor (formerly Mallinckrodt Baker Inc.) as the Nobel Laureate Signature Award for a Graduate Student in Chemistry. In 1980 the award was extended to recognize the student's preceptor(s) and its title was changed.
Contact Information
Awards Office
American Chemical Society
1155 16th Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20036-4801
Phone: (202) 872-4575
Fax: (202) 776-8008
awards@acs.org
Recipients
2021: Paul E. Ohno and Franz M. Geiger
2020: Anna Wuttig and Yogesh Surendranath
2019: Bryan Michael Hunter and Harry B. Gray
2018: Aleksandr V. Zhukhovitskiy and Jeremiah A. Johnson
2017: Junqi Li and Martin D. Burke
2016: Matthew J. Polinski and Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt
2015: Denis Malyshev and Floyd Romesberg.
2014: Livia S. Eberlin and R. Graham Cooks
2013: Bryan C. Dickinson and Christopher J. Chang
2012: Xin Zhang and Shu-ou Shan
2011: Pingwu Du and Richard Eisenberg
2010: Sang-Hee Shim and Martin T. Zanni
2009: Laura A. Banaszynski and Thomas J. Wandless
2008: Rebecca Anne Nelson and David Eisenberg
2007: Anirban Banerjee and Gregory L. Verdine
2006: Raquel L. Lieberman and Amy C. Rosenzweig
2005: Christy L. Haynes and Richard P. Van Duyne
2004: So-Jung Park and Chad A. Mirkin
2003: Phil S. Baran and K.C. Nicolaou
2002: F. Dean Toste and Barry M. Trost
2001: Martin T. Zanni and Daniel M. Neumark
2000: S. Alex Kandel and Richard N. Zare
1999: Justin Du Bois and Erick M. Carreira
1998: Jaqueline Kiplinger and Thomas G. Richmond
1997: Christopher B. Murray and Moungi Bawendi
1996: Stephan Stranick and Paul S. Weiss
1995: Minhaeng Cho and Graham R. Fleming
1994: Mark W. Grinstaff and Kenneth S. Suslick
1993: Andrew D. Johnson and Sylvia T. Ceyer
1992: Marcos Dantus and Ahmed Zewail
1991: Susan T. Graul and Robert R. Squires
1990: Yongqin Chen, Robert W. Field, and James L. Kinsey
1989: Nicholas J. Kirchner and Michael T. Bowers
1988: David L. Clark and Malcolm H. Chisholm
1987: Mark D. Hollingsworth and J. Michael McBride
1986: Robert L. Whetten, Gregory S. Ezra, and Edward R. Grant
1985: Peter G. Schultz and Peter B. Dervan
1984: Christopher S. Gudeman and R. Claude Woods
1983: David J. Nesbitt, James T. Hynes, and Stephen R. Leone
1982: Warren S. Warren and Alexander Pines
1981: James C. Weisshaar
1980: Wayne L. Gladfelter
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