Chemical Pioneer Award

The Chemical Pioneer Award has been presented by the American Institute of Chemists since 1966 for outstanding achievements in chemistry, chemical engineering and for achievements in the chemical profession.

The winners include five previous and six later Nobel Prize winners .

List of award winners

• 1966: Carl Barnes , Johan Bjoksten , Herman A. Bruson , Charles H. Fisher , Robert M. Joyce , Charles C. Price , Eugene G. Rochow
• 1967: Vladimir Haensel , William E. Hanford , Henry B. Hass , Carl S. Marvel , Benjamin Phillips , David W. Young
• 1968: Ralph A. Connor , James D. Idol , Glenn Theodore Seaborg , Max Tishler
• 1969: Orlando A. Battista , Irving E. Levine , Roy Plunkett , William Toland , Harold C. Urey , Hervery H. Voge
• 1970: Gerald J. Cox , Tracy Hall , Foster D. Snell , William J. Sparks
• 1971: C. Kenneth Banks , Oliver W. Burke , Sterling Handricks , Everett C. Huges , Joseph H. Simons
• 1972: Paul Hogan , Hermann F. Mark , Alex G. Oblad , E. Emmett Reid , Lewis Sarett
• 1973: Melvin A. Cook , Carl Djerassi , Paul Flory , Percival C. Keith , Bart Van't Riet
• 1974: Charles C. Hobbs , Samuel E. Home , Charles J. Plank , Paul B. Weisz
• 1975: Herbert Charles Brown , Rachel Fuller Brown , Elizabeth Lee Hazen , Linus Carl Pauling , Christiaan Van Dijk
• 1976: Rowland C. Hansford , Edwin T. Mertz , Wilson C. Reeves , Jerome S. Spevack
• 1977: John Kollar , Henry McGrath , Donald F. Othmer
• 1978: George EF Brewer , Karl Klager , Lewis G. MacDoowell , John Patton
• 1979: Karl P. Cohen , Paul Harteck , Barnett Rosenberg , Leo Sternbach , Alejandro Zaffaroni
• 1980: Paul Hugh Emmett , Denis Forster , Stephanie Kwolek , Robert M. Milton
• 1981: Robert L. Banks , Elias James Corey Jr. , Ralph Landau , Quentin F. Soper
• 1982: Alexander Mills , Herman Pines , Roy L. Pruett , Alfred Saffer
• 1983: Harry George Drickamer , Allen S. Russell , Barry Trost
• 1984: Isabella Karle , Robert MacAllister , Alan MacDiarmid , Ira E. Puddington
• 1985: William Breneman , Alan S. Hay , Raymond Seymour , Otto Vogl
• 1986: Harry W. Cover , Robert D. Lundberg , James F. Rooth , Howard Zimmerman
• 1987: Federick E. Bailey , James Economy , Herbert S. Eleuterio , Daniel W. Fox
• 1988: Frederick J. Karol , George Robert Pettit , Barry Sharpless , John H. Sinfelt , Robert C. West
• 1989: Harry R. Allcock , Herman S. Bloch , David R. Bryant , Burton Christenson
• 1990: Frank Albert Cotton , Michael JS Dewar , James L. Dye , Paul G. Gassman
• 1991: Michel Boudart , Edith M. Flanigen , Herbert S. Gutowsky , Jack Halpern
• 1992: Fred Basolo , Ralph Hirschmann , George W. Parshall , Gilbert Stork
• 1993: Derek HR Barton , Robert Bruce Merrifield , George A. Olah , Jule A. Rabo
• 1994: Norman L. Allinger , Frederick Hawthorne , John D. Roberts , Alan H. Cowley
• 1995: Ray Baughman , Ralph Parson , Gábor A. Somorjai , Owen Webster
• 1996: William Hettinger , George Keller , Fred McLafferty , Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou
• 1997: Gregory Choppin , Attila E. Pavlath , Jerrold Meinwald , Murray Goodman
• 1998: John E. Bercaw , Stephen J. Benkovic , Albert I. Meyers
• 2000: Richard A. Adams , Robert Bergman , Lawrence F. Dahl , Wilfried Mortier , Kenner Rice
• 2002: Gerald Jaouen , Julius Rebek
• 2004: Keki H. Gharda , Eric Jacobsen , Michael Pirrung
• 2005: Bassam Shakhashiri , Steven L. Suib , CNR Rao
• 2006: Glenn Crosby , David Devraj Kumar
• 2007: Magid Abou-Gharbia , Dennis YM Lo , Alan G. Marshall
• 2008: E. Gerald Meyer , Barnaby Munson
• 2009: Keith Carron , Debashsi Mukherjee
• 2010: Sossina M. Haile
• 2011: James Christner
• 2012: Robert Lochhead , Helen Free
• 2013: Henry Schaefer , Tom Tritton
• 2014: Anthony Cheetham , Ann M. Valentine , Robert Langer
• 2015: no prize awarded
• 2016: Rebecca L. Cann , Donna Blackmond , Michael Wasielewski
• 2017: Paul A. Craig , Jeffery W. Kelly , Marek W. Urban
• 2018: Kenneth S. Suslick , Vicki H. Grassian , Mercouri Kanatzidis
• 2019: William H. Starnes , Peng Chen , Richard B. Kaner

Web links

• Chemical Pioneer Award and list of previous winners

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From the official website of the award: for chemists and chemical engineers who have made outstanding contributions advancing the science of chemistry or impacting the chemical industry or the chemical profession