ACS Award for Affordable Green Chemistry Recipients

Congratulations to the past recipients of the ACS Award for Affordable Green Chemistry, which recognizes outstanding scientific discoveries that lay the foundation for environmentally-friendly products or manufacturing processes at a cost comparable to or less than that of current technologies or discoveries that deliver new applications with compelling cost/benefit profiles.


  • 2025 - Jeffrey C. Moore
  • 2024 - Tomislav Friščić, Stefan G. Koenig, and Karthik Nagapudi
  • 2023 - Richard Thomas Hallen, Johnathan E. Holladay, and Michael A. Lilga
  • 2022 - Mahdi M. Abu-Omar
  • 2021 - Kerry Gilmore, Peter Seeberger, and Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern
  • 2020 - Dimitris I. Collias, Jane E. Godlewski, and Juan E. Velásquez Velez
  • 2019 - Richard A. Gross
  • 2018 - B. Frank Gupton and David Tyler McQuade
  • 2017 - Peter J. Dunn
  • 2016 - Martin D. Johnson, Joseph R. Martinelli, and Shannon S. Stahl
  • 2015 - John Frye, Todd Werpy, and Alan Zacher
  • 2014 - Arthur J. Ragauskas
  • 2013 - Hari B. Sunkara
  • 2012 - William J. Kruper
  • 2011 - Richard P. Wool
  • 2010 - Vincent J. D’Amico, Juha J. Jakkula, and Emiel H. van Broekhoven
  • 2009 - Geoffrey W. Coates