Willard Gibbs Medal
The Willard Gibbs Medal (Willard Gibbs Award) is an annual chemistry prize awarded by the American Chemical Society (ACS, Chicago section). The award was initiated (and initially funded) by William A. Converse (1862–1940), secretary and temporary chairman of the Chicago section of the ACS, and named in honor of Josiah Willard Gibbs . It is associated with a gold medal.
Award winners
- 1911: Svante Arrhenius
- 1912: Theodore William Richards
- 1913: Leo Hendrik Baekeland
- 1914: Ira Remsen
- 1915: Arthur Amos Noyes
- 1916: Willis R. Whitney
- 1917: Edward W. Morley
- 1918: William M. Burton
- 1919: William A. Noyes
- 1920: Frederick Gardner Cottrell
- 1921: Marie Curie
- 1922: no price
- 1923: Julius Stieglitz
- 1924: Gilbert Newton Lewis
- 1925: Moses Gomberg
- 1926: James Colquhoun Irvine
- 1927: John Jacob Abel
- 1928: William Draper Harkins
- 1929: Claude Silbert Hudson
- 1930: Irving Langmuir
- 1931: Phoebus Levene
- 1932: Edward Curtis Franklin
- 1933: Richard Willstätter
- 1934: Harold C. Urey
- 1935: Charles August Kraus
- 1936: Roger Adams
- 1937: Herbert Newby McCoy
- 1938: Robert R. Williams
- 1939: Donald Dexter Van Slyke
- 1940: Vladimir Ipatieff
- 1941: Edward Adelbert Doisy
- 1942: Thomas Midgley
- 1943: Conrad A. Elvehjem
- 1944: George O. Curme
- 1945: Frank C. Whitmore
- 1946: Linus Carl Pauling
- 1947: Wendell Meredith Stanley
- 1948: Carl Ferdinand Cori
- 1949: Peter Debye
- 1950: Carl S. Marvel
- 1951: William Francis Giauque
- 1952: William C. Rose
- 1953: Joel H. Hildebrand
- 1954: Elmer K. Bolton
- 1955: Farrington Daniels
- 1956: Vincent du Vigneaud
- 1957: William Albert Noyes junior (the son of William A. Noyes )
- 1958: Willard Frank Libby
- 1959: Hermann Irving Schlesinger
- 1960: George Bogdan Kistiakowsky
- 1961: Louis Plack Hammett
- 1962: Lars Onsager
- 1963: Paul Doughty Bartlett
- 1964: Izaak M. Kolthoff
- 1965: Robert Mulliken
- 1966: Glenn Theodore Seaborg
- 1967: Robert B. Woodward
- 1968: Henry Eyring
- 1969: Gerhard Herzberg
- 1970: Frank Westheimer
- 1971: Henry Taube
- 1972: John T. Edsall
- 1973: Paul Flory
- 1974: Har Gobind Khorana
- 1975: Hermann F. Mark
- 1976: Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer
- 1977: Melvin Calvin
- 1978: William O. Baker
- 1979: Edgar Bright Wilson
- 1980: Frank Albert Cotton
- 1981: Bert Lester Vallee
- 1982: Gilbert Stork
- 1983: John D. Roberts
- 1984: Elias James Corey Jr.
- 1985: Donald J. Cram
- 1986: Jack Halpern
- 1987: Allen J. Bard
- 1988: Rudolph Arthur Marcus
- 1989: Richard Barry Bernstein
- 1990: Richard N. Zare
- 1991: Günther Wilke
- 1992: Harry B. Gray
- 1993: Peter Dervan
- 1994: Frederick Hawthorne
- 1995: John Meurig Thomas
- 1996: Fred Basolo
- 1997: Carl Djerassi
- 1998: Mario J. Molina
- 1999: Lawrence F. Dahl
- 2000: Nicholas Turro
- 2001: Tobin Marks
- 2002: Ralph Hirschmann
- 2003: John I. Brauman
- 2004: Ronald Breslow
- 2005: David Evans
- 2006: Jacqueline K. Barton
- 2007: Sylvia T. Ceyer
- 2008: Carolyn Bertozzi
- 2009: Louis Brus
- 2010: Maurice Brookhart
- 2011: Robert Bergman
- 2012: Mark Ratner
- 2013: Charles M. Lieber
- 2014: John E. Bercaw
- 2015: John F. Hartwig
- 2016: Laura Kiessling
- 2017: Judith Klinman
- 2018: Cynthia J. Burrows
- 2019: Marcetta Darensbourg
- 2020: Zhenan Bao
Web links
- official website
- The Chicago Section - The American Chemical Society: The Willard Gibbs Medal - Founded by William A. Converse ( Memento from February 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 358 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Texas A&M Prof. Marcetta Darensbourg named 2019 Willard Gibbs Medalist. News from December 6, 2018; accessed on February 2, 2019.
- ^ The Chemical Bulletin. (PDF; 3.4 MB) In: chicagoacs.starchapter.com. Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society, February 2020, p. 4 , accessed February 7, 2020 .