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The Priestley Medal is the highest honor conferred by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and is awarded for distinguished service in the field of chemistry. Established in 1922, the award is named after Joseph Priestley, one of the discoverers of oxygen, who immigrated to the United States of America in 1794. The ACS formed in 1876, spearheaded by a group of chemists who had met two years previously in Priestley's home.
The Priestley Medal is among the most distinguished awards in the chemical sciences, behind the Wolf Prize in Chemistry and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Consequently, it is commonly awarded to scientists who are advanced in their fields, as it is intended to commemorate lifetime achievement. When the ACS started presenting the Priestley Medal in 1923, they intended to award it every three years. This continued until 1944, when it became an annual award.




Recipients



1920s
1923 Ira Remsen
1926 Edgar Fahs Smith
1929 Francis P. Garvan
1930s
1932 Charles L. Parsons
1935 William A. Noyes
1938 Marston T. Bogert
1940s
1941 Thomas Midgley Jr.
1944 James Bryant Conant
1945 Ian Heilbron
1946 Roger Adams
1947 Warren K. Lewis
1948 Edward R. Weidlein
1949 Arthur B. Lamb
1950s
1950 Charles A. Kraus
1951 E. J. Crane
1952 Samuel C. Lind
1953 Sir Robert Robinson
1954 W. Albert Noyes Jr. (son of William A. Noyes)
1955 Charles A. Thomas
1956 Carl S. Marvel
1957 Farrington Daniels
1958 Ernest H. Volwiler
1959 Hermann Irving Schlesinger
1960s
1960 Wallace R. Brode
1961 Louis Plack Hammett
1962 Joel H. Hildebrand
1963 Peter Debye
1964 John C. Bailar Jr.
1965 William J. Sparks
1966 William O. Baker
1967 Ralph Connor
1968 William G. Young
1969 Kenneth S. Pitzer
1970s
1970 Max Tishler
1971 Frederick D. Rossini
1972 George B. Kistiakowsky
1973 Harold C. Urey
1974 Paul J. Flory
1975 Henry Eyring
1976 George S. Hammond
1977 Henry Gilman
1978 Melvin Calvin
1979 Glenn T. Seaborg
1980s
1980 Milton Harris
1981 Herbert C. Brown
1982 Bryce Crawford
1983 Robert S. Mulliken
1984 Linus Pauling
1985 Henry Taube
1986 Karl A. Folkers
1987 John D. Roberts
1988 Frank H. Westheimer
1989 George C. Pimentel
1990s
1990 Roald Hoffmann
1991 Harry B. Gray
1992 Carl Djerassi
1993 Robert W. Parry
1994 Howard E. Simmons
1995 Sir Derek H. R. Barton
1996 Ernest L. Eliel
1997 Mary L. Good
1998 F. Albert Cotton
1999 Ronald Breslow
2000s
2000 Darleane C. Hoffman
2001 Fred Basolo
2002 Allen J. Bard
2003 Edwin J. Vandenberg
2004 Elias J. Corey
2005 George A. Olah
2006 Paul S. Anderson
2007 George M. Whitesides
2008 Gabor A. Somorjai
2009 M. Frederick Hawthorne
2010s
2010 Richard Zare
2011 Ahmed H. Zewail
2012 Robert S. Langer
2013 Peter J. Stang
2014 Stephen J. Lippard
2015 Jacqueline Barton
2016 Mostafa El-Sayed
2017 Tobin J. Marks
2018 Geraldine L. Richmond
2019 Karl Barry Sharpless
2020s
2020 JoAnne Stubbe
2021 A. Paul Alivisatos
2022 Peter B. Dervan
2023 Cato T. Laurencin
2024 Carolyn Bertozzi




See also


List of chemistry awards




References






Further reading


Charles L. Parsons (1932). "Priestley memorial and medal". Journal of Chemical Education. 9 (4): 643. Bibcode:1932JChEd...9..643P. doi:10.1021/ed009p643.




External links


The Priestley Society

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• Kenneth Pitzer
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• Ernest Marsden
• Priestley Medal
• George Andrew Olah
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• Jacqueline Barton
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