Medal of Honor

Medal of Honor of the Polytechnic Institute of Milano 1954 Golden Medal of Honor of the University of Vienna 1955... 

Company, makers of billiard balls. Previously, billiard balls had been made of ivory obtained from elephant tusks. Because of the devastation of the elephant population in Africa, however, ivory was becoming more difficult to obtain, and Phelan and Collender were looking for an inexpensive substitute. Hyatt discovered that substitute when he found a way (nearly identical to that of Parkes s) to dissolve nitrated cellulose in a mixture of alcohol, ether, and camphor. Hyatt called his product celluloid. Although he was not awarded the 10,000-prize, he was honored later in life for this and other discoveries with the Perkin Medal of Honor from the Society of Chemical Industry. 

He was recipient of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Analytical Chemistry Award for Excellence in Teaching and the ACS Fisher Award in Analytical Chemistry, a top recognition for contributions in analytical chemistry. He was a Fulbright Scholar and received the Talanta Gold Medal, Universite Libre de Bruxelles Medal of Honor, Charles University Commemorative Medal, and University of Ghent Honorary Certificate of Research. He is joint editor-in-chief of Talanta, an international journal of analytical chemistry, and serves on the editorial boards of numerous other journals. He served as Chairman of the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry. 

Sergeant Juliano received the Distinguished Service Cross for his part in the action Lieutenant Waugh that day began a series of heroic exploits for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. 

Up to 1995, the year in which he became Professor emeritus, and even thereafter he was active in different fields of solid state electrochemistry (solid electrolytes, sensors, SOFC). His pioneering work encompasses contributions to solid oxide fuel cells, theoretical considerations regarding electrochemical phenomena in solid electrolyte cells, basic discoveries in solid electrolyte gas cells, and their applications as gas sensors in different branches of industry. Without any doubt, the discovery of the fuel-oxygen titration curve by means of solid electrolyte cells on which the lambda probe is based is his most memorable contribution to electrochemistry. At the Second European Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Forum, which took place in Oslo on May 1996, Prof. Dr. Hans-Heinrich Mobius was awarded the Christian Friedrich Schonbein Medal of Honor in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the fundamentals and the technology of solid electrolyte fuel cells [1]. 

The research efforts of the ChE faculty have been recognized through professional society awards. Professor Octave Levenspiel was a recipient of the R.H. Wilhelm Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the ASEE ChE Division Lecturer. Professor James Vrentas was a recipient of the William Walker Award of AIChE. These awards were made after the two had left IIT. Some of the work cited, however, was conducted by them during their tenure at IIT. Professor Dimitri Gidaspow was a recipient of the Donald Kern Award of the AIChE and the Special Creativity Award of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Professor Darsh Wasan was a recipient of the Hausner Award of the Fine Particle Society and a medal of honor from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria. He has twice been named recipient of the Special Creativity Award of the NSF. 

VOGL Professor Ranby has been a member of a committee whose responsibility was to preserve the famous Vasa ship Professor Ranby has received a medal of honor for his service. Would you please comment on the preservation of the Vasa please tell us what is the Vasa ship, and why was the Vasa ship preserved and how was it preserved ... 

Dr. Mark is acknowledged throughout the scientific community as the father of polymer science. He received the National Medal of Science in 1980, the 1978 Senior U.S. Scientist Award, 29 other medals and awards from various international organizations, and 17 honorary degrees. In 1977, he was appointed as an Honorable Member of the Japan Chemical Society. He has published over 500 original and review articles and some 20 books on topics related to polymer chemistry. Dr. Mark is founder and first editor of the Journal of Polymer Science, the definitive publication in its field, and is currently editor of the Journal of Applied Science and associate editor of the Textile Research Journal. In addition to these duties he serves as Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology. 

Commemorative medal in honor of Marcellin Berthelot. In this design, the chemist is seated in front of apparatus from his laboratory while, behind him, la Verite unveils herself and la Patrie, coiffed in the phrygian bonnet of the Revolution, presents Berthelot with a crown... 

The fields of research of Herbert Budzikiewicz are mass spectrometry and natural products chemistry, in which he specialized in bacterial metabolites. He is the author of over 500 research publications and he authored and co-authored several books on mass spectrometry. In 2008, he received the Honor Medal of the German Mass Spectrometry Society. 

Ramanathan has been awarded many honors, including the Volvo Environmental Prize In 1997 and the Rossby Medal of the American Meteorological Society In 2002. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002. 

He is the author of 63 books and monographs, 28 bulletins, 304 chapters in books, 615 journal articles, 309 abstracts, and 137 editorials, book reviews, and congressional testimonies. Cairns has been awarded a number of honors, including election to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Linnean Society of London. He has been awarded the United Stations Environmental Programme Medal, the B. Y. Morrison Medal of the American Chemical Society, the Life Achievement Award in Science of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the Superior Achievement Award of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 

Among his many honors were election to both the American and Russian Academies of Sciences, the Willard Gibbs Medal of the Chicago Section of the ACS, the Berthelot Medal, the Lenin Prize, and honorary doctor s degrees. Out of the income from a trust fund set up by Dr and Mrs Ipatieff the Ipatieff Prize was established several years ago which would encourage work in the field of catalysis and high pressure... 

Kwolek remained with DuPont for the rest of her working life, retiring in 1986. She has remained active in the field of chemistry since her retirement. She serves as a consultant to DuPont and to the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. Kwolek was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1995, only the fourth woman to be so honored, and received the National Medal of Technology in 1996. She was also awarded the Perkin Medal in 1997, only the second woman to receive that award. 

Other honors bestowed on Horace Isbell were The U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal for Meritorious Service in 1950 a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Denver in 1953 and in 1973, the second Sir Norman Haworth Memorial Medal of The Chemical Society (London) for his contributions... 

Professor Jones s outstanding achievements in carbohydrate chemistry were recognized by his receipt of numerous awards and honors. In 1957, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and, in 1959, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada. The Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry of the American Chemical Society presented him with the Claude S. Hudson Award in 1969. He was the 1975 recipient of the Anselme Payen Award from the Cellulose, Paper, and Textile Division. In March 1975, he was awarded the third Sir Norman Haworth Memorial Medal of The Chemical Society (London). 

During the period 1941-1945, Jack served on the NDRC and OSRD research projects connected with the war effort. He, with his collaborators at Cornell, contributed to the anti-malarial program and was a consultant to the penicillin program. He was a co-author with H. T. Clark and Sir Robert Robinson of the monograph The Chemistry of Penicillin. This volume summarized the work in the British and American Laboratories. In 1951 Jack served for a year in West Germany as special consultant to the U.S. State Department. For his wartime services he received the U.S. Medal of Merit and the Medaille d Honneur of France. After his war service, Jack again took up his teaching and research at Cornell until he retired in 1965. A special symposium was held at Cornell in May of 1965 in honor of Jack Johnson s achievements. 

Albert Eschenmoser (b. 1925 in Erstfeld, Uri, Switzerland) is Professor, Emeritus (since 1992) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and a member of the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California (since 1996). He received his Diploma and doctorate at the ETH in 1949 and 1951, respectively, and spent his career at the ETH. I mention only a few of his exceptionally large number of honors. He is a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A., a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (London), and a member of the Academia Europaea. He received the Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry in 1974, the Davy Medal of the Royal Society in 1978, the Arthur C. Cope Award of the American Chemical Society in 1984, the Wolf Prize in Chemistry (Israel) in 1986, and the Paracelsus Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society in 1999. One of Professor Eschenmoser s latest publications reviews his recent interests [Eschenmoser, A. Chemical Etiology of Nucleic Acid Structure. Science 1999, 2S4, 2118-2124]. We recorded our conversation on September 6, 1999 at the ETH. ... 

Honors in steady stream were awarded to Marvel during his career, culminating in the Distinguished Service Award from the U.S. Air Force Materials Laboratory and the National Medal of Science. Other awards included the Nichols, Gibbs, Priestley, and Perkin Medals and election to the Plastics Hall of Fame. 

As a result of his contributions and leadership in aerosol science, Sheldon received many honors throughout his career. For example, he received five awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers the Colburn Award in 1959, the Alpha Chi Sigma Award in 1974, the Walker Award in 1979, the Cecil Award in 1995, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the AIChE Particle Technology Forum in 2001. He also received the Humboldt Senior Scientist Award from the West German Government in 1984-1985. He presented several invited lectures around the world, and more recently he was the first recipient of the Christian Junge Award of the European Aerosol Association in 2000 and the Aurel Stodola Medal of ETH in Zurich in 2004. 

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