Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry Recipients

Congratulations to the past recipients of the Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry, which encourages and rewards outstanding research in physical chemistry.

  • 2021 - Michael David Fayer
  • 2020 - Laura Gagliardi
  • 2019 - Daniel M. Neumark
  • 2018 - Paras Nath Prasad
  • 2017 - Bruce J. Berne
  • 2016 - Mark A. Ratner
  • 2015 - Xiaoliang Sunney Xie
  • 2014 - Henry F. Schaefer III
  • 2013 - William E. Moerner
  • 2012 - David Chandler
  • 2011 - Louis E. Brus
  • 2010 - George Schatz
  • 2009 - Richard J. Saykally
  • 2008 - Michael L. Klein
  • 2007 - John T. Yates
  • 2006 - Donald G. Truhlar
  • 2005 - Stephen R. Leone
  • 2004 - William Carl Lineberger
  • 2003 - William H. Miller
  • 2002 - Giacinto Scoles
  • 2001 - John Ross
  • 2000 - Peter G. Wolynes
  • 1999 - Jesse L. Beauchamp
  • 1998 - Graham R. Fleming
  • 1997 - Robin M. Hochstrasser
  • 1996 - Ahmed Zewail
  • 1995 - John C. Tully
  • 1994 - William A. Klemperer
  • 1993 - F. Sherwood Rowland
  • 1992 - Frank H. Stillinger
  • 1991 - Richard N. Zare
  • 1990 - Harden M. McConnell
  • 1989 - Gabor A. Somorjai
  • 1988 - Rudolph A. Marcus
  • 1987 - Harry G. Drickamer
  • 1986 - Yuan T. Lee
  • 1985 - Stuart A. Rice
  • 1984 - B. S. Rabinovitch
  • 1983 - George C. Pimentel
  • 1982 - Peter M. Rentzepis
  • 1981 - Richard B. Bernstein
  • 1976 - Robert W. Zwanzig
  • 1975 - H. S. Gutowsky
  • 1974 - Walter H. Stockmayer
  • 1973 - William N. Lipscomb, Jr.
  •  1972 - Clyde A. Hutchison, Jr.
  • 1971 - Norman Davidson
  • 1970 - Oscar K. Rice
  • 1969 - Paul J. Flory
  • 1968 - George B. Kistiakowsky
  • 1967 - Joseph E. Mayer 
  • 1966 - Joseph O. Hirschfelder
  • 1965 - Lars Onsager
  • 1964 - Henry Eyring
  • 1963 - Robert S. Mulliken
  • 1962 - E. Bright Wilson