2026 ACS National Awards
New for 2026: Any individual may submit one nomination per year per award, as well as one support letter per year per award, unless that individual is a member of the selection committee for the same award or a current member of the ACS Board of Directors.
Featured 2026 ACS National Awards
- ACS Award for Creative Invention
- ACS Award in Surface Chemistry
- Now a National Award: ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry
- Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Original Contribution in Organic Synthesis by a Young Investigator
- New Award: David A. Evans Award for the Advancement and Education of Organic Synthesis
- Now an Annual Award: Marks-Ipatieff Award in Catalysis
- New Award: Thomas H. Parliment Award for Advances in Flavor Chemistry
- Priestley Medal
- New Award: Dong Qin ACS Award in Nanochemistry
Other 2026 ACS National Awards
- ACS Award for Achievement in Research for the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry
- ACS Award for Affordable Green Chemistry
- ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research
- ACS Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology
- ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry
- ACS Award for Encouraging Underrepresented and Economically Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences
- ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences
- ACS Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution
- ACS Award for Team Innovation
- ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry
- ACS Award in Colloid Chemistry
- ACS Award in Industrial Chemistry (Presented Biennially in Even-Numbered Years)
- ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry
- ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry
- ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry
- ACS Award in Pure Chemistry
- ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials
- Award for Volunteer Service to the American Chemical Society
- Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry
- Alfred Burger Award in Medicinal Chemistry (Presented Biennially in Even-Numbered Years)
- Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry
- Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods
- James Bryant Conant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching
- Arthur C. Cope Award
- Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards
- F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry
- Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry
- Francis P. Garvan - John M. Olin Medal
- James T. Grady - James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public
- Harry Gray Award for Creative Work in Inorganic Chemistry by a Young Investigator
- Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products
- Kathryn C. Hach Award for Entrepreneurial Success
- M. Frederick Hawthorne Award in Main Group Inorganic Chemistry
- Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry (Presented Biennially in Even-Numbered Years)
- Frederic Stanley Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry (Presented Biennially in Even-Numbered Years)
- Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics (Presented Biennially in Even-Numbered Years)
- Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry
- James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry
- George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry
- Josef Michl ACS Award in Photochemistry (Presented Biennially in Even-Numbered Years)
- George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education
- Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry
- Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis
- Henry H. Storch Award in Energy Chemistry
- E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy (Presented Biennially in Even-Numbered Years)
- Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology
Nominations for the following awards are not being accepted for the 2026 National Awards cycle due to a lack of funding. If you have information about a possible entity wishing to sponsor one or more of these awards, please contact awards@acs.org.
- ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry
- ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science
- ACS Award in Chromatography
- ACS Award in Separations Science and Technology
- ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
- Earle B. Barnes Award for Leadership in Chemical Research Management
- Frank H. Field and Joe L. Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry
- Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids
- E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
Nominations for the 2026 National Awards are being accepted from July 1 to November 1, 2024.
The nomination period for the 2025 National Awards closed on November 1, 2023. The winners will be announced in August 2024 in Chemical & Engineering News.
