ACS Award in Pure Chemistry Recipients

Congratulations to the past recipients of the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, which recognizes and encourages fundamental research in pure chemistry carried out in North America by young men and women.

  • 2023 - Julia Ann Kalow
  • 2022 - Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen
  • 2021 - Rebekka S. Klausen
  • 2020 - Corinna Schindler
  • 2019 - Danna Freedman
  • 2018 - Mircea Dinca
  • 2017 - Neal K. Devaraj
  • 2016 - Jonathan S. Owen
  • 2015 - Adam E. Cohen
  • 2014 - Sara E. Skrabalak
  • 2013 - Theodor Agapie
  • 2012 - Oleg V. Ozerov
  • 2011 - Melanie S. Sanford
  • 2010 - Phil S. Baran
  • 2009 - Garnet K. L. Chan
  • 2008 - Rustem F. Ismagilov
  • 2007 - Xiaowei Zhuang
  • 2006 - David R. Liu
  • 2005 - Peidong Yang
  • 2004 - Mei Hong
  • 2003 - Jillian M. Buriak
  • 2002 - Hongjie Dai
  • 2001 - Carolyn R. Bertozzi
  • 2000 - Chaitan Khosla
  • 1999 - Chad A. Mirkin
  • 1998 - Christopher C. Cummins
  • 1997 - Erick M. Carreira
  • 1996 - Ann E. McDermott
  • 1995 - M. Reza Ghadiri
  • 1994 - Gerard F. R. Parkin
  • 1993 - Jeremy M. Berg
  • 1992 - Charles M. Lieber
  • 1991 - Nathan S. Lewis
  • 1990 - Peter G. Schultz
  • 1989 - Stuart L. Schreiber
  • 1988 - Jacqueline K. Barton
  • 1987 - George McLendon
  • 1986 - Peter G. Wolynes
  • 1985 - Ben S. Freiser
  • 1984 - Eric Oldfield
  • 1983 - Michael J. Berry
  • 1982 - Stephen R. Leone
  • 1981 - Mark S. Wrighton
  • 1980 - John E. Bercaw
  • 1979 - Henry F. Schaefer III
  • 1978 - Jesse L. Beauchamp
  • 1977 - Barry M. Trost
  • 1976 - Karl F. Freed
  • 1975 - George M. Whitesides
  • 1974 - Nicholas J. Turro
  • 1973 - John I. Brauman
  • 1972 - Roy G. Gordon
  • 1971 - R. Bruce King
  • 1970 - Harry B. Gray
  • 1969 - Roald Hoffmann
  • 1968 - Orville L. Chapman
  • 1967 - John D. Baldeschwieler
  • 1966 - Ronald Breslow
  • 1965 - Dudley R. Herschbach
  • 1964 - Marshall Fixman
  • 1963 - Stuart A. Rice
  • 1962 - Harden M. McConnell
  • 1961 - Eugene E. van Tamelen
  • 1960 - Elias J. Corey
  • 1959 - Ernest M. Grunwald
  • 1958 - Carl Djerassi
  • 1957 - Gilbert J. Stork
  • 1956 - Paul M. Doty
  • 1955 - Paul Delahay
  • 1954 - John D. Roberts
  • 1953 - William E. von Doering
  • 1952 - Harrison S. Brown
  • 1951 - John C. Sheehan
  • 1950 - Verner Schomaker
  • 1949 - Richard T. Arnold
  • 1948 - Saul Winstein
  • 1947 - Glenn T. Seaborg
  • 1946 - Charles C. Price, III
  • 1945 - Frederick T. Wall
  • 1944 - Arthur C. Cope
  • 1943 - Kenneth S. Pitzer
  • 1942 - John Lawrence Oncley
  • 1941 - Karl A. Folkers
  • 1940 - Lawrence O. Brockway
  • 1938 - Paul D. Bartlett
  • 1937 - E. Bright Wilson
  • 1936 - John Gamble Kirkwood
  • 1935 - Raymond M. Fuoss
  • 1934 - C. Frederick Koelsch
  • 1933 - Frank H. Spedding
  • 1932 - Oscar K. Rice
  • 1931 - Linus Pauling