Chandler Medal

Williams accomplishments earned him many honors, including the Mead-Johnson Award (American Institute of Nutrition, 1941) the Chandler Medal (Columbia University, 1942, received jointly with his brother, Robert) election to the National Academy of Sciences (1946) presidency of the American Chemical Society (1957, the first biochemist elected to this post) D.Sc. degrees from the University of Redlands (1934), Columbia University (1942), and Oregon State University (1956) and the Nutrition Award of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation (1983). 

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). 

Paul is one of the few American polymer chemist to receive the Nobel Prize (1974). He was also the recipient of the following awards Baekeland Award (1947), Colwyn Medal (1954), Hi Polymer Physics Award (I960), Nichols Medal (1947), International SPE Award (1967), Goodyear Medal (1968), Peter Debye Award (1968), Chandler Medal... 

Charles Frederick Chandler Medal, Colixmbia University, 1970. 

Milton C. Whitaker, On Our Opportunities, JIEC 6 (October 1914) 794. At the turn of the century, Whitaker (1870-1963) received his M.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado and then joined the faculty at Columbia University. When he left the journal, he also left academia, first taking a position at U.S. Industrial Alcohol Company and eventually becoming an executive at American Cyanamid. He won both the Perkin Medal (1923) and Chandler Medal (1950) from the ACS he also worked on the Manhattan Project. M. C. Whitaker, Retired Chemist, [obituary] New York Times, April 4, 1963, p. 47. Until 1919, the industrial division s name was the Division of Industrial Chemists and Chemical Engineers. 

Quoting H. L. McBain, Columbia University dean, Chandler Lecture, lEC 25 (May 1933) 582. When Curme won the Perkin Medal two years later, Weidlein liked McBain s words enough to use them verbatim (and unattributed) E. R. Weidlein, Accomplishments of the Medalist, lEC 27 (February 1935) 221-22. 

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