Division of Polymer Chemistry Award

PRESENTATION OF THE DIVISION OF POLYMER CHEMISTRY AWARD TO MAURICE L. HUGGINS... 

On the occasion of the presentation of the Division of Polymer Chemistry Award to Dr. Maurice L. Huggins on November 24, 1980, a number of formal and informal events, which accompanied the award address published in this volume, occurred which added materially to the presentation and we hope tended to enhance the tradition of the award. These events included the presentation ceremonies, the introduction of the awardee, and a panel discussion involving questions and reminiscing about the awardee s career. A special flavor to the ceremony was derived by the presentation of a scroll signed by many of his polymer friends in Japan and an additional gift of a 200-year old Japanese wooden print to Dr. Huggins by the Society of Polymer Science, Japan. 

The Division of Polymer Chemistry Award presented to Maurice L. Huggins November 24, 1980... 

Teiji Tsuruta - Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan, I would like to express my hearty congratulations to Professor Maurice L. Huggins for his receiving the Division of Polymer Chemistry Award. Professor Huggins stayed in Japan for one year from 1955 to 1956 as a Fulbright Lecturer. He was responsible for many lecture courses and seminars in Kyoto University,... 

The highlight of the conference was the presentation of the Third Division of Polymer Chemistry Award to Dr. Maurice L. Huggins for his outstanding contributions to... 

Professor Michael Szwarc has published over four hundred papers, numerous reviews and three books. He has received a number of major awards, including the ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry (1969), the International Award in Plastics Science and Engineering (1972), the Gold Medal of the Benjamin Franklin Society (1978), and, at this Biennial Symposium, the 1990 Division of Polymer Chemistry Award given by the ACS Polymer Division. More recently. Professor Szwarc has been awarded the prestigious Kyoto Prize for 1991. 

Professor Michael Szwarc is truly one of the pioneers of polymer science. The members of the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry recognize his many creative contributions to macromolecular chemistry and his tremendous lasting impact on this field. It is with great pleasure that we honor Professor Szwarc with the Division of Polymer Chemistry award on the occasion of this 1990 Biennial Symposium. 

A particular highlight of the meeting was the presentation to Professor Michael Szwarc of the 1990 Division of Polymer Chemistry Award by Dr. J. L. Benham, Chairman of the /lymer Division. During his Award adi ess. Professor Szwarc described how he had become a polymer chemist and later developed "living polymers." Without a doubt. Professor Szwarc has made a profound contribution to the polymer field, which has yielded many new forms of living polymerization. 

Winner of the 1990 Division of Polymer Chemistry Award American Chemical Society... 

On this occasion Professor Herman F. Mark received the Fourth Division of Polymer Chemistry Award for his outstanding achievements and his unique missionary role in the development of Polymer Chemistry. Professor Mark was the premier organizer of many important firsts in polymer chemistry, to name just a few - the first polymer journal, the pre-eminent Journal of Polymer Science the first U.S. academic center of Polymer Science at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute which led to a long procession of eminent polymer scientists the "High Polymer" Monograph series. In the Division of Polymer Chemistry, he was the first secretary-treasurer and chairman in 1955.. A detailed biography follows along with Professor liark s reminiscences on the Early Days of Polymer Science, the topic of his Award lecture. 

The symposium also marks the occasion when the Second Division of Polymer Chemistry Award was presented to Professor C. S. Marvel for his outstanding achievements in polymer chemistry. The proceedings of this Symposium are recorded in this volume. 

Professor Marvel has been honored on numerous ocasions prior to receiving the Division of Polymer Chemistry Award. 

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. 

The Chairman of the Division of Polymer Chemistry, Bill M. Culbertson in making the formal presentation of the award expressed gratification at the excellent attendance to honor someone that everyone admires, respects and appreciates. He was pleased that Speed s two children, Mary Marvel from Crosse Point, Michigan and Dr. John T. Marvel from Monsanto in St. Louis, could be present to help honor their father. 

Mitsuo Sawamoto, born in Kyoto, Japan (1951), received his B.S. (1974), M.S. (1976), and Ph.D. (1979) degrees in polymer chemistry from Kyoto University under the direction of Toshinobu Higashimura. After postdoctoral research with Joseph P. Kennedy at the Institute of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH (1980-81), he joined the faculty of the Department of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University, in 1981 as a research instructor. He was promoted to Lecturer (1991), to Associate Professor (1993), and to Professor (1994), his current position, of the same department. Sawamoto also serves as one of the three Editors of the Journal of Polymer Science, Part A Polymer Chemistry (1995-present) and as an Editorial Advisory Board member of Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, the Journal of Macromolecular Science, Chemistry, and e-Polymers, and is the recipient of the 1991 Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan, the 1998 Divisional Award of the Chemical Society of Japan, the 2001 Aggarval Lectureship in Polymer Science, Cornell University, and the 2001 Arthur K. Doolittle Award of the ACS PMSE Division. With more than 250 articles and reviews, his research interest covers living radical and cationic polymerizations, precision polymer synthesis, and the chemistry of radical and carbocationic reaction intermediates. 

These were Paul Flory and Carl Marvel. The Division itself now has some additional awards that you will be hearing about. We have established a Creative Polymer Chemistry Award, which will be given every second year to a polymer chemist under the age of 45 and this award too will be supported by the Dow Chemical Company. We are in the... 

Dr. Lattimer is an internationally recognized authority in the analytical characterization and degradation of polymeric materials. His research interests include mechanisms of crosslinking and pyrolysis of polymers, and the mass spectrometric analysis of polymeric systems. He is Editor of the Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis and a past Associate Editor of Rubber Chemistry and Technology. Dr. Lattimer is past Chairman of the Gordon Research Conference on Analytical Pyrolysis, and he received the ACS Rubber Division s Sparks-Thomas Award in 1990. He has won two Rubber Division Best Paper Awards, as well as three Honorable Mentions. 

Axel H. E. Muller obtained his PhD in 1977 from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, for the work on the kinetics of anionic polymerization with G. V. Schulz. Since 1999, he has been professor and chair of macromolecular chemistry at the University of Bayreuth. In 2004, he received the lUPAC MACRO Distinguished Polymer Scientist Award and since 2011, he has been a Fellow of the Polymer Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. He is senior editor of the journal Polymer. His research interests focus on the design of well-defined polymer stmctures by controlled/living polymerization techniques and on self-organized nanostructures and hybrids obtained from them. He has coedited five books and published over 400 research papers. 

He has raieived the following awards Academy of Athens Award for Chemistry (1989), Empirikion Award for Sciences (1994), the Gre Chemists Association Award (2000), the AC, PMSEA. K. Doolittle Award (2003), the/ntenwifionPolymer Science, Japan (SPSJ, 2007), the ACS PMSE Cooperative Research Award (2010) and the ACS, Rubber Division, Chemistry of Thermoplastic Elastomers Award (2011). He was elected as a PMSE Fellow for 2004 and was the "Ralph Milkovich" Memorial Lecturer for 2006 at the University of Akron. He has Honorary D rees Doctorate Honoris Causa) fiom the University Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela (2010) and the University of loannina, Greece (2010). He has dedicate his career primarily to the synthesis and properties of model polymers and has published more than 400 papers in refereed scientific journals, three books ( litor), is the author of one book on Block Copolymers (Wiley 2003) and owns 6 patents,. 

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