The Glenn T. Seaborg Medal was first awarded in 1987 by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry to Nobel Prize–winning chemist Glenn T. Seaborg, a UCLA alumnus. The purpose of the award is to honor persons who have made exceptional scientific contributions in the fields of chemistry or biochemistry. It is awarded annually by an executive committee of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry.
| Year[1] [2] | Awardee | Institution | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Glenn T. Seaborg (Nobel Laureate) | UC Berkeley | |
| 1988 | Mobil Chemical | ||
| 1989 | Donald J. Cram (Nobel Laureate) | UCLA | |
| 1990 | Products Research and Chemical Corp. | ||
| 1991 | Caltech | ||
| 1992 | Ralph H. Bauer | Bauer Investments | |
| 1993 | R. Bruce Merrifield (Nobel Laureate) | Rockefeller University | |
| 1994 | Allied Signal Corporation | ||
| 1995 | ICOS Corporation | ||
| 1996 | US Dept of Commerce | ||
| 1997 | UCLA | ||
| 1998 | Paul D. Boyer (Nobel Laureate) | UCLA | |
| 1999 | Ford Research Laboratory | ||
| 2000 | UC Berkeley | ||
| 2001 | Specialty Laboratories | ||
| 2002 | Richard E. Smalley (Nobel Laureate) | Rice University | |
| 2003 | UC Berkeley | ||
| 2004 | UCLA | ||
| 2005 | Salk Institute | ||
| 2006 | Harvard University | ||
| 2007 | Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | ||
| 2008 | UCLA | ||
| 2009 | Georgia Institute of Technology | ||
| 2010 | UC Berkeley | ||
| 2011 | Richard F. Heck (Nobel Laureate) | University of Delaware | |
| 2012 | Harold E. Varmus (Nobel Laureate) | National Cancer Institute | |
| 2013 | UCLA | ||
| 2014 | University of California, Santa Barbara | ||
| 2015 | Stefan W. Hell (Nobel Laureate) | Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences | |
| 2016 | UCLA | ||
| 2017 | UCLA | ||
| 2018 | Robert Glaeser & Richard Henderson (Nobel Laureate) | UC Berkeley &MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | |
| 2019 | UC Berkeley | ||
| 2022 | Carolyn R. Bertozzi (Nobel Laureate) | Stanford University | |
| 2024 | Juli Feigon | UCLA |