Nakanishi Prize Recipients

Congratulations to the past recipients of the Nakanishi Prize, which recognizes and stimulates significant work that extends chemical and spectroscopic methods to the study of important biological phenomena.

  • 2024 - Minoru Isobe
  • 2023 - Gilad Haran
  • 2022 - Takenori Kusumi
  • 2021 - Mei Hong
  • 2020 - Kishi Yoshito
  • 2019 - Lewis E. Kay
  • 2018 - Nobuyuki Harada
  • 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
  • 2008 - Michel Rohmer
  • 2007 - Hung-Wen Liu
  • 2006 -  Takeshi Yasumoto
  • 2005 - Stephen J. Benkovic
  • 2004 - Isao Kitagawa
  • 2003 - A. Ian Scott
  • 2002 - Sir Jack Baldwin
  • 2001 - John D. Roberts
  • 2000 - Satoshi Ōmura
  • 1999 - Jeremy R. Knowles
  • 1998 - Albert J. Eschenmoser
  • 1997 - Frank H. Westheimer
  • 1996 - Yoshimasa Hirata

The Nakanishi Prize is presented by the ACS in odd-numbered years and by the Chemical Society of Japan in even-numbered years.