Robert Robinson Award
The Robert Robinson Award is a prize for organic chemistry awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry since 1964 . It is named after Robert Robinson and was awarded every two years until 2006. It has been awarded annually since 2007. It is awarded for publications after the age of 55. In line with Robinson's research area, the focus of the awards is on organic synthesis.
Award winners
- 1964 Robert B. Woodward
- 1966 Alexander Robert Todd
- 1968 Vladimir Prelog
- 1970 Derek HR Barton
- 1974 Michael Dewar
- 1976 Albert Eschenmoser
- 1978 Ewart Jones
- 1980 Alan Woodworth Johnson
- 1981 Arthur Birch
- 1984 Duilio Arigoni
- 1986 Alan Battersby
- 1988 Elias James Corey
- 1990 Jean-Marie Lehn
- 1992 Gilbert Stork
- 1994 Leslie Crombie
- 1996 Philip D. Magnus
- 1998 Jack Baldwin
- 2000 David A. Evans
- 2002 Jim Staunton
- 2004 Ian Paterson
- 2006 Steven V. Ley
- 2007 Gerald Pattenden
- 2008 Scott Denmark (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- 2009 Alan Katritzky (University of Florida)
- 2010 Dieter Enders (RWTH Aachen University)
- 2011 Lewis N. Mander (Australian National University)
- 2012 Kendall Houk (UCLA)
- 2013 John Michael Brown (Oxford)
- 2014 Robert G. Bergman (Berkeley)
- 2015 Chi-Huey Wong (Academia Sinica)
- 2016 Thomas Hoye (University of Minnesota)
- 2017 Dale Boger (Scripps Research Institute)
- 2018 Tom Simpson (University of Bristol)
- 2019 Bernard Golding (Newcastle University)
- 2020 Anthony Davis (University of Bristol)
Web links
- ↑ Our 2020 prize and award winners. In: rsc.org. Royal Society of Chemistry , June 24, 2020, accessed June 24, 2020 .