Dexter Award
The Dexter Award was an honor given out by the American Chemical Society from 1956 until 2001. It was sponsored by the Dexter Chemical Corporation except for the final two years, when it was sponsored by the Mildred and Sidney Edelstein Foundation.
The award was established to recognize an "outstanding career of contributions to the history of chemistry".
Award winners
- 1956 Ralph E. Oesper
- 1957 Williams Haynes
- 1958 Eva Armstrong
- 1959 John Read
- 1960 Denis Duveen
- 1961 James R. Partington
- 1962 Henry M. Leicester
- 1963 Douglas McKie
- 1964 Eduard Farber
- 1965 Martin Levey
- 1966 Earle R. Caley
- 1967 Mary Elvira Weeks
- 1968 Aaron J. Ihde
- 1969 Walter Pagel
- 1970 Ferenc Szabadváry
- 1971 Wyndham D. Miles
- 1972 Henry Guerlac
- 1973 Bernard Jaffe
- 1974 No Award
- 1975 Jan W. van Spronsen
- 1976 Trevor I. Williams
- 1977 Modesto Bargallo
- 1978 George B. Kauffman
- 1979 Joseph Needham
- 1980 Maurice Daumas
- 1981 Cyril Stanley Smith
- 1982 John H. Wotiz
- 1983 Arnold Thackray
- 1984 Maurice Crosland
- 1985 Robert Multhauf
- 1986 Robert G. W. Anderson
- 1987 Allen Debus
- 1988 Lutz F. Haber
- 1989 D. Stanley Tarbell
- 1990 Colin A. Russell
- 1991 Owen Hannaway
- 1992 John T. Stock
- 1993 Joseph S. Fruton
- 1994 Frederic L. Holmes
- 1995 William H. Brock
- 1996 Keith J. Laidler
- 1997 Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
- 1998 Seymour H. Mauskopf
- 1999 Mary Jo Nye
- 2000 Alan J. Rocke
- 2001 William A. Smeaton
External links
- ACS HIST Dexter Award, with list of winners
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/6/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.