American Chemical Society (ACS)
The Pure Chemistry Award of the American Chemical Society (ACS) was established at the sum of $1,000 per year to recognize outstanding chemists not older than 35 years of age. It was financed from 1931 to 1937 by Drs. A.C. and Irving Langmuir. In 1938, Professor James Kendall, Alpha Alpha 1923, was the sponsor. But there was no award in 1939 due to the lack of a donor.
Recipients from 1931 to 1938 were:
| Year |
Awardee |
Chapter and Year Initiated |
| 1931 |
Linus Pauling |
Sigma 1940 |
| 1932 |
Oscar Rice |
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| 1933 |
F.H. Spedding |
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| 1934 |
C. Fredrick Koelsch |
Alpha 1926 |
| 1935 |
Raymond M. Fuoss |
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| 1936 |
John Gramble Kirkwood |
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| 1937 |
E. Bright Wilson |
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| 1938 |
Paul D. Bartlett |
Omicron 1929 |
After two or more years of thought and argument, it was decided at the Tenth Professional Conference luncheon in Baltimore in the spring of 1939 to support the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry. William Higberg, Beta 1914, and Stewart S. Kurtz, Omicron 1921, insistently advocated support of the award. Brother Kurtz later contributed largely to the success of the program as chairman of the Alpha Chi Sigma Pure Chemistry Award Committee from 1940 to 1944. Currently, the award consists of $5,000 plus a travel stipend of $1,000.
The award is announced at the fall meeting of the American Chemical Society and is presented at the following spring meeting, at which a symposium honoring the recipient is usually held.
Awards granted under Alpha Chi Sigma sponsorship include:
| Year |
Awardee |
Chapter and Year Initiated |
| 1940 |
Olin Brockway |
Alpha Beta 1941 |
| 1941 |
Karl A. Folkers |
Zeta 1942 |
| 1942 |
John L. Oncley |
Alpha 1929 |
| 1943 |
Kenneth S. Pitzer |
Sigma 1940 |
| 1944 |
Arthur C. Cope |
Chi 1945 |
| 1945 |
Frederick Wall |
Zeta 1938 |
| 1946 |
C.C. Price |
Zeta 1941 |
| 1947 |
Glenn T. Seaborg |
Beta Gamma 1935 |
| 1948 |
Saul Winstein |
Beta Gamma 1951 |
| 1949 |
Richard T. Arnold |
Zeta 1935 |
| 1950 |
Verner Schomaker |
Theta 1932 |
| 1951 |
John C. Sheehan |
Alpha Zeta 1948 |
| 1952 |
Harrison S. Brown |
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| 1953 |
William von E. Doering |
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| 1954 |
John D. Roberts |
Beta Gamma 1939 |
| 1955 |
Paul Delahay |
Psi 1951 |
| 1956 |
Paul M. Doty |
Nu 1939 |
| 1957 |
Gilbert Stork |
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| 1958 |
Carl Djerassi |
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| 1959 |
Ernest M. Grunwald |
Beta Iota 1960 |
| 1960 |
Elias J. Corey |
Zeta 1952 |
| 1961 |
Eugene E. Van Tamelen |
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| 1962 |
Harden M. McConnell |
Alpha Pi 1945 |
| 1963 |
Stuart A. Rice |
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| 1964 |
Marshal Fixman |
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| 1965 |
Dudley Herschbach |
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| 1966 |
Ronald Breslow |
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| 1967 |
John D. Baldeschweiler |
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| 1968 |
Orville L. Chapman |
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| 1969 |
Roald Hoffmann |
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| 1970 |
Harry B. Gray |
Upsilon 1958 |
| 1971 |
R. Bruce King |
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| 1972 |
Roy G. Gordon |
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| 1973 |
John I. Brauman |
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| 1974 |
Nicholas J. Turro |
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| 1975 |
George M. Whitesides |
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| 1976 |
Karl S. Freed |
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| 1977 |
Barry M. Trost |
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| 1978 |
Jesse L. Beauchamp |
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| 1979 |
Henry F. Schaefer III |
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| 1980 |
John E. Bercaw |
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| 1981 |
Mark S. Wrighton |
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| 1982 |
Stephen R. Leone |
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| 1983 |
Michael J. Berry |
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| 1984 |
Eric Oldfield |
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| 1985 |
Ben Freiser |
Gamma Beta 1985 |
| 1986 |
Peter Wolynes |
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| 1987 |
George McLendon |
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| 1988 |
Jacqueline K. Barton |
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| 1989 |
Stuart L. Schreiber |
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| 1990 |
Peter G. Schultz |
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| 1991 |
Nathan S. Lewis |
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| 1992 |
Charles M. Lieber |
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| 1993 |
Jeremy M. Berg |
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| 1994 |
Gerard F.R. Parkin |
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| 1995 |
M. Reza Ghadiri |
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| 1996 |
Ann McDermott |
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| 1997 |
Erick M. Carreira |
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| 1998 |
Christopher C. Cummins |
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| 1999 |
Chad A. Mirkin |
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| 2000 |
Chaitan Khosla |
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| 2001 |
Carolyn Bertozzi |
Sigma 2001 |
| 2002 |
Hongjie Dai |
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| 2003 |
Jillian M. Buriak |
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| 2004 |
Mei Hong |
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| 2005 |
Peidong Yang |
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| 2006 |
David R. Liu |
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| 2007 |
Xiaowei Zhuang |
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| 2008 |
Rustem F. Ismagilov |
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| 2009 |
Garnet K.L. Chan |
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| 2010 |
Phillippe S. Baran |
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| 2011 |
Melanie S. Sanford |
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| 2012 |
Oleg V. Ozerov |
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| 2013 |
Theodor Agapie |
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| 2014 |
Sara E. Skrabalak |
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| 2015 |
Adam Ezra Cohen |
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| 2016 |
Jonathan S. Owen |
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| 2017 |
Dr. Neal K. Devaraj |
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| 2018 |
Nircea Dinca |
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| 2019 |
Danna Freedman |
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| 2020 |
Corinna Schindler |
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| 2021 |
Rebekka S. Klausen |
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| 2022 |
Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen |
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| 2023 |
Julia Ann Kalow |
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