Scheele Award Explained

The Scheele Award (Swedish: Scheelepriset) is a scientific award given by the Swedish, an organisation mainly consisting of pharmacists. The award is given to commemorate the pharmacist and chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786) and has been appointed since 1961, in the beginning annually but later biannually. The award is given to "a particularly prominent and internationally renowned pharmaceutical scientist".^[1]

A symposium, the Scheele Symposium, on the topics of interest of the laureate in question is held in November, in connection with the prize ceremony.

List of laureates

• 1961 Frank Rose
• 1962 Peter Doyle
• 1963
• 1964 Lewis H. Sarett
• 1965 Paul Janssen
• 1966 no prize was given
• 1967 Bernard B. Brodie
• 1968 Arnold Beckett
• 1969 Takeru Higuchi
• 1970
• 1971 Albert Hofmann
• 1972 Carl Djerassi
• 1973
• 1974 E.J. Ariens
• 1975 Edward P. Abraham
• 1976
• 1977 Hans W. Kosterlitz
• 1978
• 1979
• 1980
• 1981 George Aghajanian
• 1982 Charles Weissmann
• 1983 James W. Black
• 1984 Malcolm Rowland
• 1985 Stanley S. Davis
• 1986 Luc Montagnier
• 1987
• 1988 David V. Goeddel
• 1989
• 1990
• 1991 K. Barry Sharpless
• 1992 Koji Nakanishi
• 1993
• 1994 Greg Winter
• 1995
• 1996
• 1997 Julian E. Davies
• 1998
• 1999 John W. Daly
• 2000 Douwe Breimer
• 2001 Andrew H. Wyllie
• 2003
• 2005
• 2007 Mathias Uhlén
• 2009 Dennis J. Slamon
• 2011 Kathleen Giacomini
• 2013 Garret A. FitzGerald^[2]
• 2015 Robert S. Langer^[3]
• 2017 Charles Sawyers
• 2019 Emmanuelle Charpentier
• 2021 Craig Crews^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: About . The Scheele Award . 12 November 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141112080556/http://scheeleaward.se/about/ . 12 November 2014 . dead . sv . 28 July 2022.
2. Web site: Former Laureates. Apotekarsocieteten. 29 November 2016.
3. Web site: Robert S. Langer Honored by Scientific Community. Chemical Heritage Foundation. 2 December 2015. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160712030140/http://www.chemheritage.org/about/news-and-press/press-releases/2015-11-24-robert-s-langer-honored-by-scientific-community.aspx. 12 July 2016.
4. Web site: Craig Crews Awarded the Scheele Prize 2021 . Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology . 11 February 2021 . 28 July 2022.