Chemical Pioneer Award Explained

The Chemical Pioneer Award, established in 1966, is awarded by the American Institute of Chemists to recognize chemists or chemical engineers who have made outstanding contributions to advances in chemistry or the chemical profession. ^[1]

Recent recipients

Source: AIC

2022 Alison Butler, Chi-Huey Wong
2021 Benjamin Cravatt, Veronica Vaida, Jonathan L. Sessler
2020 No award
2019 William H. Starnes, Jr., Peng Chen, Richard B. Kaner
2018 Kenneth S. Suslick (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Vicki H. Grassian (UC San Diego); Mercouri Kanatzidis (Northwestern University)
2017 Paul A. Craig (Rochester Institute of Technology); Jeffrey W. Kelly (Scripps Research Institute); Marek W. Urban (Clemson University)
2016 Rebecca L. Cann (University of Hawaii at Manoa) ; Donna Blackmond (The Scripps Research Institute); Michael Wasielewski (Northwestern University)
2015 No award
2014 Anthony Cheetham (University of Cambridge, England) ; Ann M. Valentine (Temple University) ; Robert Langer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2013 Henry F. Schaefer, III (University of Georgia) ; Thomas R. Tritton (Chemical Heritage Foundation)
2012 Robert Lochhead ; Helen Free
2011 James Christner
2010 Sossina M. Haile (Caltech)
2009 Keith Carron (University of Wyoming) ; Debashis Mukherjee (IACS)
2008 E. Gerald Meyer (University of Wyoming) ; Barnaby Munson (University of Delaware)
2007 Magid Abou-Gharbia ; Dennis Y-M Lo ; Alan G. Marshall (Florida State University)
2006 Glenn Crosby ; David Devraj Kumar (Florida Atlantic University)
2005 Bassam Shakhashiri ; Steven L. Suib ; C.N.R. Rao
2004 Keki H. Gharda ; Eric Jacobsen ; Michael Pirrung
2002 Gerard Jaouen ; Julius Rebek
2000 Richard A. Adams ; Robert G. Bergman ; Larry Dahl ; Wilfried Mortier ; Kenner Rice

Selected earlier recipients

1999 No award
1998 John E. Bercaw ; Stephen J. Benkovic ; Albert Meyers
1997 Jerrold Meinwald
- 1996 K.C. Nicolaou ; Fred McLafferty 1995 Gabor Somorjai ; Owen Webster
1994 Norman L. Allinger ; M. Frederick Hawthorne ; John D. Roberts
1993 Derek H. R. Barton ; Bruce Merrifield ; George Andrew Olah
1992 Gilbert Stork ; Fred Basolo ; Ralph F. Hirschmann
1991 Michel Boudart ; Edith M. Flanigen ; Herbert S. Gutowsky ; Jack Halpern
1990 Michael J. S. Dewar
1989 Herman S. Bloch ; Harry R. Allcock ; David R. Bryant
1988 K. Barry Sharpless; John H. Sinfelt
1987 Herbert S. Eleuterio
1986 Howard Zimmerman
1985 Otto Vogl
1984 Alan MacDiarmid ; Isabella Karle
1983 Harry G. Drickamer; William S. Knowles ; Barry M. Trost
1981 Elias James Corey
- 1980 Paul H. Emmett ; Stephanie Kwolek 1979 Paul Harteck ; Barnett Rosenberg ; Leo Sternbach ; Alejandro Zaffaroni
1977 Donald F. Othmer
1976 Edwin T. Mertz
1975 Herbert C. Brown ; Rachel Fuller Brown ; Elizabeth Lee Hazen ; Linus C. Pauling
1973 Melvin A. Cook ; Paul J. Flory ; Carl Djerassi
1972 Herman Francis Mark ; Lewis Sarett
1970 Tracy Hall ; William J. Sparks
1969 Roy J. Plunkett ; Harold C. Urey
1968 Glenn T. Seaborg ; Max Tishler
1966 Eugene G. Rochow, Charles C. Price^[2]

See also

List of chemistry awards

Notes and References

Web site: Chemical Pioneer Award. American Institute of Chemists. 16 May 2018.
Reisert. Sarah. Public Understanding of Chemistry - A Look Inside the AIC Awards Program: The Gold Medal & Chemical Pioneer Awards. The Chemist. 2. 88. 2015. 26 January 2018.