Priestley Award Recipients

Congratulations to the past recipients of the Priestley Award, which recognizes distinguished service to chemistry.

  • 2024 - Carolyn R. Bertozzi
  • 2023 - Cato T. Laurencin
  • 2022 - Peter B. Dervan
  • 2021 - A. Paul Alivisatos
  • 2020 - JoAnne Stubbe
  • 2019 - K. Barry Sharpless
  • 2018 - Geraldine Richmond
  • 2017 - Tobin J. Marks
  • 2016 - Mostafa A. El-Sayed
  • 2015 - Jacqueline K. Barton
  • 2014 - Stephen J. Lippard
  • 2013 - Peter J. Stang
  • 2012 - Robert S. Langer
  • 2011 - Ahmed H. Zewail
  • 2010 - Richard N. Zare
  • 2009 - M. Frederick Hawthorne
  • 2008 - Gabor A. Somorjai
  • 2007 - George M. Whitesides
  • 2006 - Paul S. Anderson
  • 2005 - George A. Olah
  • 2004 - Elias J. Corey
  • 2003 - Edwin J. Vandenberg
  • 2002 - Allen J. Bard
  • 2001 - Fred Basolo
  • 2000 - Darleane C. Hoffman
  • 1999 - Ronald Breslow
  • 1998 - F. Albert Cotton
  • 1997 - Mary L. Good
  • 1996 - Ernest L. Eliel
  • 1995 - Sir Derek H. R. Barton
  • 1994 - Howard E. Simmons
  • 1993 - Robert W. Parry
  • 1992 - Carl Djerassi
  • 1991 - Harry B. Gray
  • 1990 - Roald Hoffmann
  • 1989 - George C. Pimentel
  • 1988 - Frank H. Westheimer
  • 1987 - John D. Roberts
  • 1986 - Karl A. Folkers
  • 1985 - Henry Taube
  • 1984 - Linus Pauling
  • 1983 - Robert S. Mulliken
  • 1982 - Bryce Crawford, Jr.
  • 1981 - Herbert C. Brown
  • 1980 - Milton Harris
  • 1979 - Glenn T. Seaborg
  • 1978 - Melvin Calvin
  • 1977 - Henry Gilman
  • 1976 - George S. Hammond
  • 1975 - Henry Eyring
  • 1974 - Paul J. Flory
  • 1973 - Harold C. Urey
  • 1972 - George B. Kistiakowsky
  • 1971 - Frederick D. Rossini
  • 1970 - Max Tishler
  • 1969 - Kenneth S. Pitzer
  • 1968 - William G. Young
  • 1967 - Ralph Connor
  • 1966 - William Oliver Baker
  • 1965 - William J. Sparks
  • 1964 - John C. Bailar, Jr.
  • 1963 - Peter J. W. Debye
  • 1962 - Joel H. Hildebrand
  • 1961 - Louis P. Hammett
  • 1960 - Wallace R. Brode
  • 1959 - H. I. Schlesinger
  • 1958 - Ernest H. Volwiler
  • 1957 - Farrington Daniels
  • 1956 - Carl S. Marvel
  • 1955 - Charles A. Thomas
  • 1954 - W. Albert Noyes, Jr.
  • 1953 - Robert Robinson
  • 1952 - Samuel C. Lind
  • 1951 - E. J. Crane
  • 1950 - Charles A. Kraus
  • 1949 - Arthur B. Lamb
  • 1948 - Edward R. Weidlein
  • 1947 - Warren K. Lewis
  • 1946 - Roger Adams
  • 1945 - Ian Heilbron
  • 1944 - James B. Conant
  • 1941 - Thomas Midgley, Jr.
  • 1938 - Marston T. Bogert
  • 1935 - William A. Noyes
  • 1932 - Charles L. Parsons
  • 1929 - Francis P. Garvan
  • 1926 - Edgar F. Smith
  • 1923 - Ira Remsen