Priestley Medal

The Priestley Medal is the highest award of the American Chemical Society.

Recipients

• 1923 Ira Remsen
• 1926 Edgar Fahs Smith
• 1929 Francis P. Garvan
• 1932 Charles L. Parsons
• 1935 William A. Noyes
• 1938 Marston T. Bogert
• 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
• 1950 Charles A. Kraus
• 1951 E. J. Crane
• 1952 Samuel C. Lind
• 1953 Robert Robinson
• 1954 W. Albert Noyes, Jr.
• 1955 Charles A. Thomas
• 1956 Carl S. Marvel
• 1957 Farrington Daniels
• 1958 Ernest H. Volwiler
• 1959 Hermann Irving Schlesinger
• 1960 Wallace R. Brode
• 1961 Louis Plack Hammett
• 1962 Joel H. Hildebrand
• 1963 Peter J. W. 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
• 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
• 1980 Milton Harris
• 1981 Herbert C. Brown
• 1982 Bryce Crawford, Jr.
• 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
• 1990 Roald Hoffmann
• 1991 Harry B. Gray
• 1992 Carl Djerassi
• 1993 Robert W. Parry
• 1994 Howard E. Simmons
• 1995 Derek H. R. Barton
• 1996 Ernest L. Eliel
• 1997 Mary L. Good
• 1998 F. Albert Cotton
• 1999 Ronald Breslow
• 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
• 2010 Richard Zare
• 2011 Ahmed H. Zewail

References

• The Priestley Medalists, 1923–2008. Chem. Eng. News 2008, 86 (14), 60–61, <http://pubs.acs.org/cen/acsnews/86/8614acsnews3.html>.