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Gold Medal Awards

 

Call for Nominations
Deadline - 10/5/11
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gold Medal Awards:

The Gold Medal is The Institute's highest award. It is given annually to a person who has stimulated activities of service to the science of chemistry or the profession of chemist or chemical engineer in the United States of America. In recognition of their achievements, Gold Medallists are given Life Fellowship in The Institute.

The nominations for the 2010 AIC Gold Medal Award is now closed. The winner is Dr. Robert Grubbs.

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2011 Gold Medal Award.

Previous Gold Medal Award Winners

 

Call for Nominations
2012 Gold Medal Award

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2012 The American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal Award.  First presented by the AIC in 1926, the Gold Medal is the AIC’s highest award.  It recognizes service to the science of chemistry and to the profession of chemistry or chemical engineering in the United States. Previous winners include Nobel laureates Glenn T. Seaborg and Herbert C. Brown, as well as other renowned researchers and scientists representing the many facets of the world of chemistry. Recent medalists include Arnold O. Beckman, Harry B. Gray, Ralph F. Hirschmann, Robert L. McNeil, Jr., George Whitesides, Roald Hoffman, and Oliver Smithies.

Nominations should consist of a nominating letter with the individual's curriculum vita plus two letters of support. All nomination materials are due by October 5, 2011, and should be mailed to:
Ms. Sarah Reisert

Attn: Gold Medal Nomination

Chemical Heritage Foundation
315 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
OR you may email completed nomination materials to SReisert@chemheritage.org
It is the responsibility of the person making the nomination to collect and submit all the required nomination materials – letter of nomination, two letters of support and the nominees CV.  No late nominations will be accepted.

The award winner is expected to deliver a formal lecture on a topic relevant to the basis for winning the award at the award ceremony during the Chemical Heritage Day in April 2012.

The American Institute of Chemists: Founded in 1923, The AIC advances the chemical sciences by establishing high professional standards of practice and emphasizing the professional, ethical, economic, and social status of its members for the benefit of society as a whole. The AIC engages in a broad range of programs for professional enhancement through the prestigious Fellow membership category, an awards program, certification programs, and meetings.
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Dr. Dudley Herschbach Named 2011 AIC Gold Medal Awardee
Dr. Dudley Herschbach was awarded the 2011 American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal at the Chemical Heritage Foundation on April 7, 2011. Dr. Herschbach is the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, Emeritus, Harvard University and Professor of Physics and Chemistry, Texas A&M University. He shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John Polanyi and Yuan T. Lee for their contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes paving way for a better understanding of how chemical reactions take place. He has published more than 400 publications. He is a strong proponent of science education and science among the general public, and is engaged in several efforts to improve K-16 science education.
Dr. Herschbach is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Besides the Nobel Prize, his awards include the National Medal of Science (1991), the Pure Chemistry Prize of the American Chemical Society (1965), the Linus Pauling Medal (1978), the Michael Polanyi Medal (1981), the Irving Langmuir Prize of the American Physical Society (1983), the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1986), jointly with Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi, the Jaroslav Heyrovsky Medal (1992), the Sierra Nevada Distinguished Chemist Award (1993), the Kosolapoff Award of the ACS (1994), and the William Walker Prize (1994). The Chemical & Engineering News named him among the 75 leading contributors to the chemical enterprise in the past 75 years (1998). Dr. Herschbach received his B.S. degree in Mathematics (1954) and M.S. in Chemistry (1955) at Stanford University, followed by an A.M. degree in Physics (1956) and Ph.D. in Chemical Physics (1958) at Harvard University.