Franklin Medal

Grubbs (Fig. 8.7) was named Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at Caltech in 1990 and, apart from the Nobel Prize, has received a long list of awards including the ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry, the ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry, the ACS Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic... 

In 1987 he received, together with Hansjorg Sinn, the European Research Prize for the development of the Hamburg process for pyrolysis of polymers. In 1997 he received the Carothers Award of the American Chemical Society (Delaware Section), and in the same year the Walter Ahlstrom Prize in Helsinki, Finland. Since 1998 he has been an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry in London, and Honorary Professor of the Zhejiang University in China. In 1999 he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Chemistry, Philadelphia and in 2003 the Hermann Staudinger Prize of the German Chemical Society (GDCh). 

He was given many awards and honors including Nichols Medal (1915 and 1920) Hughes Medal (1918) Rumford Medal (1921) Cannizzaro Prize (1925) Perkin Medal (1928) School of Mines Medal (Columbia University, 1929) Chardler Medal (1929) Willard Gibbs Medal (1930) Popular Science Monthly Award (1932) Franklin Medal and Holly Medal (1934) John Scott Award (1937) Modern Pioneer of Industry (1940) Faraday Medal (1944) and Mascart Medal (1950). He was a foreign member of the Royal Society of London, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and an honorary member of the British Institute of Metals and the Chemical Society (London). He served as president of the American Chemical Society and as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received over a dozen honorary degrees. 

Baekeland earned many honors and awards, including the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute (1940), and the Perkin Medal (1916) and Messel Medal (1938) of the Society of the Chemical Industry. He was also elected president of the Chemists Club of New York (1904) the American Electrochemical Society (1909) the American Institute of Chemical Engi-... 

The author of the following article is professor of mathematical physics at Princeton University. He has contributed greatly to the development of uranium reactors, being directly involved in the design of the reactors at Hanford. Dr. Wigner recently received the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute for his work in atomic physics. 

Grubbs has received many awards including Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1974-76), Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1975-78), Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (1975), ACS Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry (2000), ACS Herman F. Mark Polymer Chemistry Award (2000), ACS Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods (2001), the Tolman Medal (2002), and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2005). He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989 and a fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994. 

He has received awards and honore such as the European Research Prize, the Heinz Beckurts Prize, the Carothers Award, the Walter Ahlstrdm Prize of the Finnish Academies of Technology, the Benjamin Franklin Medal, the Outstanding Achievement Award of the Society of Plastics Engineers, and the Hermann-Staudinger prize. 

At that time the worldwide production of Bakehte amounted to 175,000 per year, and about 15,000 different articles were produced from this plastic". L. Baekeland was awarded the Franklin medal (in 1940) and he received numerous other honors. In its March issue 1999, the Time Magazin counted L. Baekeland among the 20 most important inventors and think tanks of the twentieth century. 

Rudolf Erich Raspe was bom in 1737 in Hanover and educated in the natural sciences and philology at Gottingen and Leipzig. Benjamin Franklin met both Raspe and Baron von Munchausen on his visit in Hanover (61). Raspe was brilliant and versatile, but extravagant and dishonest. After he had pawned some valuable medals which he had stolen from the museum at Cassel, the police described him as a red-haired man,... 

Sir Hans Sloane, 1660-1753. Founder of the British Museum. Physician, pharmacist, traveler, and collector of books, manuscripts, coins, medals, gems, antiquities, and natural history specimens. His asbestos specimens were purchased from Benjamin Franklin (63). 

The following other activities are part of the Franklin Institute Library, Science Museum, Planetarium, Journal, Medal Awards, Barcol Research Foundation and Institute Education... 

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). 

During his career Debye was awarded the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society, London, the Franklin and Faraday Medals, the Lorentz Medal of the Royal Netherlands Academy, the Max Planck Medal (1950), the Willard Gibbs Medal (1949), the Nichols Medal (1961), the Kendall Award (Miami, 1957), and the Priestley Medal of the American Chemical Society... 

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). 

Madison Marshall Award, Alabama Sect, of A.C.S., 1968 Elliott Cresson Medal, Franklin Institute, 1969 Linus Pauling Medal, Puget Sound ACS Section, 1969... 

Martin David Kruskal obtained the MS degree from University of New York in 1948, and the PhD title in mathematics there in 1952. He was a research scientist in the Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, from 1951 to 1961, from when he took over there as professor of astrophysical sciences, and professor of mathematics in 1981 imtil retirement in 1989. He was then David Hilbert professor of mathematics at Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ. He had been from 1985 to 1991 trustee of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics SIAM, senior fellow of the Weizmaim Institute of Sciences from 1973 to 1974, and 1979 Gibbs Lecturer of the American Mathematical Society AMS. Kruskal was the recipient of the 1983 Dannie Heineman Prize for mathematical physics, the 1986 Potts Gold Medal of the Franklin Institute, and the National Medal of Science of the National Seience Foundation in 1993. He was member AMS, Fellow of the Ameriean Physieal Soeiety APS, and the National Academy of Sciences NAS. 

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