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 201 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 |
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Nominations are now being accepted
for the 2013 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, 2012, and should be mailed to: |
Ms.
Sarah Reisert |
Attn: Gold Medal Nomination
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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 2013. |
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. Elizabeth
Blackburn was awarded The AIC Gold Medal for her outstanding contributions
to the understanding of molecular nature of telomeres. Dr. Elizabeth
H. Blackburn, Morris Herztein Professor of Biology and Physiology
in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University
of California, San Francisco, is a leader in the area of telomere
and telomerase research. She discovered the molecular nature of
telomeres - the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes that serve as protective
caps essential for preserving the genetic information - and the
ribonucleoprotein enzyme, telomerase. Blackburn and her research
team at the University of California, San Francisco are working
with various cells including human cells, with the goal of understanding
telomerase and telomere biology. |
| Dr. Blackburn is the
first woman Nobel Laureate to receive The AIC Gold Medal. "The
AIC Gold Medal was the first major prize in chemistry awarded to
a woman, Mabel Garvan in 1929," said David Manuta, AIC president. "It
is a great honor for us to add the name Elizabeth Blackburn to
the roll of 87 great chemists who have received the AIC Gold Medal
over the past eight decades." In 1978, Blackburn joined the faculty
at the University of California at Berkeley in the Department of
Molecular Biology. In 1990, she joined the Department of Microbiology
and Immunology at UC San Francisco, where she served as Department
Chair from 1993 to 1999. Blackburn is currently a faculty member
in Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF. She is also
a Non-Resident Fellow of the Salk Institute. |
| Throughout her career,
Blackburn has been honored by her peers as the recipient of many
prestigious awards. She was elected President of the American Society
for Cell Biology for the year 1998. Blackburn is an elected Fellow
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991), the Royal
Society of London (1992), the American Academy of Microbiology
(1993), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science
(2000). She was elected Foreign Associate of the National Academy
of Sciences in 1993, and was elected as a Member of the Institute
of Medicine in 2000. She was awarded the Albert Lasker Medical
Research Award in Basic Medical Research (2006). In 2007 she was
named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most influential People and she
is the 2008 North American Laureate for L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women
in Science. In 2009, Dr. Blackburn was awarded the Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine. |
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