Tetrahedron Prize
The Tetrahedron Prize (completely Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry or Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry ) is a prize in organic chemistry , bioorganic chemistry and medicinal chemistry that has been awarded annually since 1980 by Verlag Elsevier , publisher of the journal Tetrahedron . It is awarded for particularly significant and original achievements in memory of the co-founders of Tetrahedron magazine , Robert Robinson and Robert Burns Woodward .
It is endowed with $ 10,000 and associated with a gold medal. The winner publishes an article in the journals Tetrahedron or Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry as part of a symposium booklet in their honor of the respective journal.
There is also the Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award.
Award winners
- 1981 Albert Eschenmoser
- 1983 Elias J. Corey
- 1985 Gilbert Stork
- 1987 Arthur J. Birch
- 1989 Michael JS Dewar
- 1991 William Summer Johnson
- 1993 Ryoji Noyori and K. Barry Sharpless
- 1995 Alan R. Battersby and A. Ian Scott
- 1996 Samuel Danishefsky
- 1997 Stuart L. Schreiber
- 1998 David A. Evans and Teruaki Mukaiyama
- 1999 Henri B. Kagan
- 2000 Peter B. Dervan
- 2001 Yoshito Kishi
- 2002 Kyriacos C. Nicolaou
- 2003 Robert H. Grubbs and Dieter Seebach
- 2004 Koji Nakanishi
- 2005 Bernd Giese
- 2006 Hisashi Yamamoto
- 2007 J. Fraser Stoddart
- 2008 Larry E. Overman
- 2009 Steven V. Ley
- 2010 Satoshi Ōmura
- 2011 Manfred T. Reetz
- 2012 Paul A. Wender
- 2013 Shankar Balasubramanian
- 2014 Barry Trost and Jiro Tsuji
- 2015 William L. Jorgensen
- 2016 Ben L. Feringa
- 2017 Laura L. Kiessling
- 2018 Stephen L. Buchwald and John Hartwig
- 2019 Peter G. Schultz