Priestley Medal

During his lifetime, Hammett was awarded the Priestley Medal of the American Chemical Society (1961) and the National Medal of Science (1967). In 1997, he was selected by readers of the chemical journal Chemical Engineering News as one of the 75 most distinguished contributors to the field of science in the preceding 75 years. He served as chairman of the National Research Council s chemistry and chemical technology division from 1946 to 1947 and was chair of the board of the American Chemical Society for 1961. 

Dr. Tishler was very active in the American Chemical Society, serving for many years on the Board of Directors and as President in 1972. He received the Priestley Medal of the ACS in 1970. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Tishler received an honorary Sc.D. from Tufts University in 1956 and a D.Eng. from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1966. In 1987, he received the National Medal of Science. 

Fig. 2.14 Fred Basolo (1920-2007) was the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University in Evanston in the US. He worked for his Ph.D. with one of the founders of coordination chemistry in the US, John C. Bailar, and received a doctorate from the University of Illinois in 1943. After working on then-classified projects for the war effort, he joined the chemistry department at Northwestern in 1946, where he was a force to be reckoned with for more than 60 years. Together with Ralph Pearson, he was one of the pioneers in the field of inorganic reaction mechanisms and one of the first studying the kinetics of substitution reactions of metal carbonyls. He coauthored two text books Mechanisms of Inorganic Reactions (with R. G. Pearson) and Coordination Chemistry (with R. C. Johnson). Fred was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1979, was the President of the American Chemical Society in 1983, and received the Priestley Medal, the highest award of the ACS, in 2001 (photo by courtesy from Professor Jim Ibers, Northwestern University)...

Henry Taube (b. 1915 in Canada) is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry of the Department of Chemistry, Stanford University. He received the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes. His other distinctions include the National Medal of Science (1977), the Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry (1983), and the Priestley Medal of the American Chemical Society (1985). Our conversation was recorded in Dr. Taube s office at Stanford University on February 28, 1996. ... 

National Medal of Science, which he received from President Bush in 1989 the Priestley Medal from the American Chemical Society the Davy Medal from the Royal Society of London and the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Chemists. 

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... 

Adams, Roger (1889-1971). Noted educator and contributor to industrial research in catalysis and structural analysis. Priestley Medal. 

The Priestley Medal, considered the highest award in chemistry, was established by the ACS in 1923. The Society also administers or sponsors many other awards. 

The Solubility of Non-electrolytes [1]. He was famous at Berkeley for his lectures, especially to freshman classes. His scientific work was recognized by many awards during his long career, including the Priestley Medal of the American Chemical Society in 1962. Hildebrand was also an avid sportsman and was particularly fond of skiing in the Sierra Nevada mountains. One of his last papers was published in the Annual Review of Physical Chemistry in 1981 at the age of 100. He died in 1983. 

The authors of this issue of Inorganic Chemistry were a distinguished group, including five recipients of the Priestley Medal, the highest hone- conferred by the American Chemical Society, and 1983 Nobel Laureate Henry Taube. 

The Priestley Medal is the highest honor given by the American Chemical Society. 

Chemistry and the world of tomorrow (Priestley Medal Award Address, 9 April 1984). Chem. Eng. News (16 April 1984) pp. 54—56. 

Gibbs Medal (1973), American Institute of Chemist Pioneer Award (1973), Cresson Award (1973), Priestley Medal (1974), National Medal of Science (1971), ACS Polymer Division Award (1976), Perkin Award (1977) and the Carl-Dietrich-Harries Medal (1978). He was named a pioneer in polymer science by Polymer News (1979). 

Dr. Sparks gave generously of his time to the American Chemical Society and the American Institute of Chemists. He held many positions in these organizations, and received their highest honors (ACS Priestley Medal, 1965 Charles Goodyear Medal, 1963 AIC Gold Medal Award, 1954 Chemical Pioneer Award, 1970 and Honorary Membership, 1954). He was President of the... 

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). 

John C. Bailar, Jr., The Expanding Universe of Chemistry, (The Priestley Medal Address), Chem. Eng. News 42 110 (1964). 

Figure 2.1 The Priestley Medal is the highest honor given by the American Chemical Society, it is named for Joseph Priestley, who was born in England on March 13,1733. He performed many important scientific experiments, among them the discovery that a gas later identified as carbon dioxide could be dissolved in water to produce seltzer. Also, as a result of meeting Benjamin Franklin in London in 1766, Priestley became interested in electricity and was the first to observe that graphite was an electrical conductor. However, his greatest discovery occurred in 1774 when he isolated oxygen by heating mercuric oxide.

Priestley Medal, American Chemical Society, 197lf. 

He is the recipient of the Nichols Medal, Willard Gibbs Medal, American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal, Priestley Medal, SPE International Award, Witco Award, Perkin Medal, Madison Marshall Award, American Institute of Chemists Pioneer Award, John Kuebler Award, and Borden Award. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences as well as the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. Speed has received honorary degrees from the Illinois Wesleyan University, University of Illinois, and the University of Louvain. 

The Priestley Medal, the top award of the ACS, is also given without respect to field however, a large fraction of earlier awards (up to 1960 or so) went to industrial chemists and chemical engineers, blurring any easily detectable change over the crucial time period. 

Flory s published work comprises more than 400 papers in addition to the aforementioned books. In 1985 Stanford University Press published the book Selected Works of Paul J. Flory. Among the numerous awards and honors he received (e.g., Priestley Medal 1974, Perkin Medal 1977, Elliot H. Cresson Medal 1971), the Nobel Prize awarded in 1974 was the most prestigious one. Flory used his prestige and this award to campaign for international human rights, mainly with regard to the treatment of scientists in the former Soviet block. 

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