Priestley Medal
Sponsor: American Chemical Society
Purpose: To recognize distinguished services to chemistry.
Nature: The award consists of a gold medallion designed to commemorate the work of Joseph Priestley with a presentation box and a certificate. It may not be awarded more than once to the same individual. Up to $2,500 for travel expenses to the meeting at which the award will be presented will be reimbursed.
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. The medal may be awarded not only to members of the Society, but also to non-members and to representatives of any nation. Members of the ACS Board of Directors are ineligible to receive this award.
Deadline: November 1 (annual review).
Establishment & Support: Established by ACS in 1922.
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
2019 K. Barry Sharpless
2018 Geraldine Richmond
2017 Tobin J. Marks
2016 Mostafa A. El-Sayed
2015 Jacqueline K. Barton
2014 Stephen J. Lippard
2013 Peter J. Stang
2012 Robert S. Langer
2011 Ahmed H. Zewail
2010 Richard N. Zare
2009 M. Frederick Hawthorne
2008 Gabor A. Somorjai
2007 George M. Whitesides
2006 Paul S. Anderson
2005 George A. Olah
2004 Elias J. Corey
2003 Edwin J. Vandenberg
2002 Allen J. Bard
2001 Fred Basolo
2000 Darleane C. Hoffman
1999 Ronald Breslow
1998 F. Albert Cotton
1997 Mary L. Good
1996 Ernest L. Eliel
1995 Sir Derek H. R. Barton
1994 Howard E. Simmons
1993 Robert W. Parry
1992 Carl Djerassi
1991 Harry B. Gray
1990 Roald Hoffmann
1989 George C. Pimentel
1988 Frank H. Westheimer
1987 John D. Roberts
1986 Karl A. Folkers
1985 Henry Taube
1984 Linus Pauling
1983 Robert S. Mulliken
1982 Bryce Crawford, Jr.
1981 Herbert C. Brown
1980 Milton Harris
1979 Glenn T. Seaborg
1978 Melvin Calvin
1977 Henry Gilman
1976 George S. Hammond
1975 Henry Eyring
1974 Paul J. Flory
1973 Harold C. Urey
1972 George B. Kistiakowsky
1971 Frederick D. Rossini
1970 Max Tishler
1969 Kenneth S. Pitzer
1968 William G. Young
1967 Ralph Connor
1966 William Oliver Baker
1965 William J. Sparks
1964 John C. Bailar, Jr.
1963 Peter J. W. Debye
1962 Joel H. Hildebrand
1961 Louis P. Hammett
1960 Wallace R. Brode
1959 H. I. Schlesinger
1958 Ernest H. Volwiler
1957 Farrington Daniels
1956 Carl S. Marvel
1955 Charles A. Thomas
1954 W. Albert Noyes, Jr.
1953 Robert Robinson
1952 Samuel C. Lind
1951 E. J. Crane
1950 Charles A. Kraus
1949 Arthur B. Lamb
1948 Edward R. Weidlein
1947 Warren K. Lewis
1946 Roger Adams
1945 Ian Heilbron
1944 James B. Conant
1941 Thomas Midgley, Jr.
1938 Marston T. Bogert
1935 William A. Noyes
1932 Charles L. Parsons
1929 Francis P. Garvan
1926 Edgar F. Smith
1923 Ira Remsen
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