American Chemical Society Awards

In the summer of 1963, I learned that I had won the American Chemical Society Award in Petroleum Chemistry for my work on Friedel-Crafts chemistry. It was a most welcome recognition for someone who only a few years earlier had fled his native country and started all over on a far-away continent. Although I have received numerous other awards and recognitions over the years, with the exception of the Nobel Prize, no other award touched me as much. 1 remember that my first ACS award carried with it a check for 5,000. My research director for some reason believed that a company employee was not... 

John Sheehan s major research achievements are described in some 150 synthetic papers which cover not only penicillin, but peptides, antibiotics, alkaloids and steroids. For these scientific contributions John received several high honors including the American Chemical Society award in Pure Chemistry (1951), the American Chemical Society award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry... 

The scope and depth of his work is reflected by the numerous awards he received, among them the Eugene H. Houdry Award in Applied Catalysis, the Chemical Pioneer Award, and the following American Chemical Society awards The Fritzsche Award for his contributions to terpene chemistry, the Petroleum Chemistry Award, and the E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. 

Ken s research has been recognized by many major awards. Among these some of the most significant are an Alexander von Humboldt U.S. Senior Scientist Award from Germany, the Schrodinger Medal of the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists, the UCLA Faculty Research Lectureship, a Cope Scholar Award and the James Flack Norris Award of the American Chemical Society, the Tolman Award of the Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society, and an Honorary Degree ( Dr. honoris causa ) from the University of Essen, Germany in 1999. In 2000, he was named a Lady Davis Professor at the Technion in Israel and received a Fellowship from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. Last year Ken was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he has won the 2003 American Chemical Society Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research. 

The importance of Chatt s work was recognized by many awards including the Tilden, Liversidge and Nyholm Lectureships of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Chemical Society Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry, and the Wolf Prize for Chemistry, the first to be awarded to someone resident outside North America. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1961, received its Davy Metal in 1979, and was appointed Commander of the British Empire in 1978. After his retirement from the Unit, he continued to participate in research in the School of Molecular Science and went to the university regularly. He died on the 19th of May 1994. 

Ted s contributions to science and technology were recognized by several awards The American Chemical Society award for creative work in synthetic organic chemistry (1968) the Perkin medal of the British Society of Chemical Industry (1973) and the Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute (1974). 

He also received the Research Corporation Award for 1951 for the radiocarbon dating technique the Chandler Medal of Columbia University for outstanding achievement in the field of chemistry (1954) the American Chemical Society Award for Nuclear Applications in Chemistry (1956) the Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute (1957) the American Chemical Society s Willard Gibbs Medal Award (1958) the Albert Einstein Medal Award (1959) and the Day Medal of the Geological Society of America (1961). 

As an analytical chemist, Fauikner pubiished more than 120 papers. He and Bard are co-authors of the textbook Electrochemical Methods Fundamentals and Applications, now in its second edition. He is also a co-inventor of the cybernetic potentiostat, an instrument for electrochemical research and analysis. Among Faulkner s research awards are the American Chemical Society Award in Analytical Chemistry, the U.S. Department of Energy Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement in Materials Chemistry, and the Charles N. Reilly Award from the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry. 

Many awards and honors attest to Dr. Bovey s contributions to polymer science. He received the Union Carbide Award of the Minnesota Section of the ACS in 1962. In 1969 he received the Witco Award in Polymer Chemistry of the ACS and the Outstanding Achievement Award of the University of Minnesota. In 1974 he was awarded the Ford High Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society. In 1978 he received the Nichols Medal Award of the New York Section of the ACS and delivered the Whitby Memorial Lectures at the University of Akron. His receipt in 1983 of the American Chemical Society Award in Applied Polymer Science, sponsored by Phillips Petroleum Company, was the occasion for the symposium in his honor on which this book is based. 

This book presents to the polymer chemist illustrations of the most recent advances in NMR characterization of polymers while at the same time honoring Frank A. Bovey of Bell Laboratories. Dr. Bovey received the 1983 American Chemical Society Award in Applied Polymer Science, which was sponsored by the Phillips Petroleum Company and presented at the ACS National Meeting in Seattle in March 1983. Dr. Bovey is certainly the... 

This book is dedicated to Frank A. Bovey, a pioneer researcher in NMR studies of polymers, on the occasion of his receipt of the American Chemical Society award in Applied Polymer Science, sponsored by the Phillips Petroleum Company, March 22, 1983. 

Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder (1975-1982). Castleman is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was a Fulbright senior scholar in 1989. He received the 1988 American Chemical Society Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology and was awarded a Doktors Honoris Causa from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, in 1987. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. 

David A. Dixon is a Battelle fellow in the Fundamental Science Directorate at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), where he previously served as associate director for theory, modeling, and simulation at the William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory. His main research interest is the use of numerical simulation to solve complex chemical problems with a primary focus on the quantitative prediction of molecular behavior. He uses numerical simulation methods to obtain quantitative results for molecular systems of interest to experimental chemists and engineers with a specific focus on the design of new materials and production processes. Before moving to PNNL, he was research fellow and research leader in computational chemistry at DuPont Central Research and Development (1983-1995) and a member of the Chemistry Department at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1977-1983). He earned his B.S. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Harvard University, where he served as a junior fellow of the Society of Fellows, Harvard University. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a fellow of the American Physical Society. He is a recipient of the 1989 Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award presented by the American Chemical Society, the Federal Laboratory Consortium Technology Transfer Award (2000), and the 2003 American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry. 

It can only help if your thesis results advance lus or her research or if your postdoctoral synthetic work does. All the better for you if this chemist won the Nobel Prize, as did G. Olah, E. J. Corey, D. J. Cram, and H. C. Brown, or received another award (Appendix A). To track prize wiimers, look at the free annual issues of American Chemical Society Awards. Each edition names the following year s recipients. 

American Chemical Society Awards, Bulletin 7, 1999 ed., Washington, DC. 

A sketch of Herman Pines would not be complete without reviewing some of his awards After the A. C. S Fritzsche Award, Herman Pines received the Midwest Award of the St. Louis Section of the American Chemical Society in 1963. In 1981 he received the American Chemical Society Award in Petroleum Chemistry In 1981 he also received the Eugene J. Houdry Award in Applied Catalysis of the Catalysis Society At its recent meeting in Las Vegas, he received the 1982 Chemical Pioneer Award of the American Institute of Chemists Space limitations prevent elaboration of all of his honors ... 

Langmuir Award (American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry for chemists 1933... 

LEO MANDELKERN received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 1942. After serving with the armed forces, he returned to Cornell and received his Ph.D. in 1949. He remained at Cornell in a postdoctoral capacity until 1952. Since 1962 he has been Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics at the Florida State University. In 1984 he was named R. O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Chemistry. Other honors include the Arthur S. Fleming Award (1958), the American Chemical Society Award in Polymer Chemistry (1975), the Mettler Award in Thermal Analysis (1984) the Florida Award of the Florida Section of the American Chemical Society (1984). 

She is the recipient of the Howard Potts Medal (1976), the ASM International award (1978), the Chemist Pioneer Award from the American Institute of Chemists (1980), the American Chemical Society award for creative inventions (1981), the Society of Plastics Engineers Technol( award... 

American Chemical Society Award for creative work in synthetic organic chemistry (1972), Nichols Medal (1973), Instrument special award (1977) and the Alan E. Preda award. He was named a Pioneer in Polymer Sdence by Polymer News in 1983 and received the Nobel prize in 1984. 

Dr. Morgan is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the recipient of the Delaware Section Award and the Witco American Chemical Society Award (1976), the Swinburne Medal (1978), the Howard Potts MedgJ (1976) and the ASM International award (1978). He was named a Pioneer in Polymer Science by Polymer News in 1981. 

In addition to receiving the John R. Kuebler Award of Alpha Chi Sigma, Professor Bailar has also received the American Chemical Society Award in Chemical Education sponsored by the Scientific Apparatus Makers Association (1964), the Priestley Medal of the American Chemical Society (1964), the Francis P. Dwyer Medal of the Chemical Society of New South Wales (1965), the Alfred Werner Gold Medal of the Swiss Chemical Society (1966), and the Synthetic Chemical Manufacturers Association Award in the Teaching of Chemistry (1968), and has also received Honorary Membership in Phi Lambda Upsilon—the national honorary chemistry fraternity (1959). 

His awards included, among others, being named a Fellow of the ACS Polymer Chemistry Division and also Fellow of the ACS Polymer Materials Science and Engineering Division. He received the Southwest American Chemical Society Award and the Texas State University President s Award for Excellence in Research. During his tenure, he was awarded nine patents, mostly concerning fluoropolymer materials. 

He received many professional awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the Royal Society of Chemistry Ludwig Mond Medal, the Materials Research Society Medal, and the American Chemical Society Award for Distinguished Service in Inorganic Chemistry. He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

FIGURE 2.4 William J. MacKnight is an American polymer scientist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has received the Ford Prize in High Polymer Physics, the American Chemical Society Award in Polymer Chemistry (Mobil Award), the Distinguished Service Award in Advancement of Polymer Science from the Society of Polymer Science, Japan, and the Herman F. Mark Award from the Division of Polymer Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. 

FIGURE 17.4 Prof. Henry F. Schaefer III, Director of the Center for Computational Chemistry at the University of Georgia. Professor Schaefer s major awards include the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry (1979), the American Chemical Society Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award (1983) the Schrddinger Medal (1990) the Centenary Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (London, 1992) the American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry (2003). In 2003, he also received the annual American Chemical Society Ira Remsen Award. The Journal of Physical Chemistry published a special issue in honor of Dr. Schaefer on April 15, 2004. In 2009, the journal Molecular Physics published five consecutive issues in honor of Fh-ofessor Schaefer. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. He was the recipient of the prestigious Joseph O. Htrschfelder Prize of the University of Wisconsin for the academic year 2005-2006. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) in 2005. He was also among the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society, chosen in 2009. (With the permission of Prof. Schaefer.)... 

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