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Sir John Meurig Thomas, 2011 Elizabeth Blackburn with AIC Gold Medal, 2012. This list of chemistry awards is an index to articles about notable awards for chemistry.It includes awards by the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Chemical Society, the Society of Chemical Industry and awards by other organizations.
The ACS national awards program began in 1922 with the establishment of the Priestley Medal, the highest award offered by the ACS. [1] As of 2016, the ACS offers a 64 national awards, medals and prizes based on scientific and professional contributions in chemistry. [2] A category of ACS awards is available on Wikipedia.
At least 25 laureates have received the Nobel Prize for contributions in the field of organic chemistry, more than any other field of chemistry. [5] Two Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry, Germans Richard Kuhn (1938) and Adolf Butenandt (1939), were not allowed by their government to accept the prize. They would later receive a medal and ...
Description: This book explained Dalton's theory of atoms and its applications to chemistry. Importance: The book was one of the first to describe a modern atomic theory, a theory that lies at the basis of modern chemistry. [3]: 251 It is the first to introduce a table of atomic and molecular weights.
The HIST Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry (2013–present) is given by the Division of the History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The award was originally known as the Dexter Award (1956–2001) and then briefly as the Sidney M. Edelstein Award (2002–2009), both given by the ACS.
John W. Cahn of the National Institute of Standards and Technology receives the Kyoto Prize in 2011. This list of academic awards is an index to articles about notable awards given for academic contributions. It does not include professorships, fellowships or student awards other than awards to students who have made an original contribution to ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -U.S. scientists David Baker and John Jumper and Briton Demis Hassabis won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for work on decoding the structure of proteins and ...
Robert Howard Grubbs ForMemRS (February 27, 1942 – December 19, 2021) was an American chemist and the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. [7] He was a co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on olefin metathesis. [8]