Perkin Medal

The Perkin Medal is an award given annually by the American section of the Society of Chemical Industry to a scientist residing in America for an "innovation in applied chemistry resulting in outstanding commercial development." It is considered the highest honor given in the US industrial chemical industry.

The Perkin Medal was first granted in 1906 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of mauveine, the world's first synthetic aniline dye, by Sir William Henry Perkin, an English chemist. The award was given to Sir William on the occasion of his famous visit to the United States in the year before he died. It was next given in 1908 and has been given every year since then.

Recipients

1906 Sir William H. Perkin
1908 John Brown Francis Herreshoff
1909 Arno Behr
1910 Edward G. Acheson
1911 Charles M. Hall
1912 Herman Frasch
1913 James Gayley
1914 John W. Hyatt
1915 Edward Weston
1916 Leo H. Baekeland
1917 Ernst Twitchell
1918 Auguste J. Rossi
1919 Frederick G. Cottrell
1920 Charles F. Chandler
1921 Willis R. Whitney
1922 William M. Burton
1923 Milton C. Whitaker
1924 Frederick M. Becket
1925 Hugh K. Moore
1926 Richard B. Moore
1927 John E. Teeple
1928 Irving Langmuir
1929 Eugene C. Sullivan
1930 Herbert H. Dow[1]
1931 Arthur D. Little
1932 Charles F. Burgess
1933 George Oenslager
1934 Colin G. Fink
1935 George O. Curme, Jr.
1936 Warren K. Lewis[2]
1937 Thomas Midgley, Jr.[3]
1938 Frank J. Tone
1939 Walter S. Landis
1940 Charles M. A. Stine
1941 John V. N. Dorr
1942 Martin Ittner
1943 Robert E. Wilson
1944 Gaston F. Dubois
1945 Elmer K. Bolton
1946 Francis C. Frary
1947 Robert R. Williams
1948 Clarence W. Balke
1949 Carl S. Miner
1950 Eger V. Murphree
1951 Henry Howard
1952 Robert M. Burns
1953 Charles A. Thomas
1954 Roger Adams
1955 Roger Williams
1956 Edgar C. Britton
1957 Glenn T. Seaborg
1958 William J. Kroll
1959 Eugene J. Houdry
1960 Karl Folkers
1961 Carl F. Prutton
1962 Eugene G. Rochow
1963 William O. Baker
1964 William J. Sparks
1965 Carl S. Marvel
1966 Manson Benedict
1967 Vladimir Haensel
1968 Henry B. Hass
1969 Robert W. Cairns
1970 Milton Harris
1971 James F. Hyde
1972 Robert Burns MacMullin
1973 Theodore L. Cairns
1974 Edwin H. Land
1975 Carl Djerassi
1976 Lewis H. Sarett
1977 Paul J. Flory
1978 Donald F. Othmer
1979 James D. Idol Jr.
1980 Herman F. Mark
1981 Ralph Landau
1982 Herbert C. Brown
1983 N. Bruce Hannay
1984 John H. Sinfelt
1985 Paul B. Weisz
1986 Peter Regna
1987 J. Paul Hogan and Robert L. Banks
1988 James F. Roth
1989 Frederick J. Karol
1990 John E. Franz
1991 Miguel A. Ondetti
1992 Edith M. Flanigen
1993 Lubomyr T. Romankiw
1994 Marinus Los
1995 Delbert H. Meyer
1996 Marion D. Francis
1997 Stephanie Kwolek
1998 David R. Bryant
1999 Albert A. Carr
2000 Norman N. Li
2001 Elsa Reichmanis
2002 Paul S. Anderson
2003 William H. Joyce
2004 Gordon E. Moore
2005 Robert W. Gore
2006 James C. Stevens
2007 Herbert Boyer
2008 Ian Shankland
2009 Richard B. Silverman
2010 Ronald Breslow
2011 Rodney H. Banks
2012 Robert S. Langer[4][5]
2013 Bruce Roth
2014 John C. Warner[6][4]
2015 Cynthia A. Maryanoff[7]
2016 Peter Trefonas[8]
2017 Ann E. Weber[9]

Recipients

References

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"Perkin Medal -Warren K. Lewis". Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. 28 (2): 256–256. February 1936. doi:10.1021/ie50314a028. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
"Perkin Medal". Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. 29 (2): 239–239. February 1937. doi:10.1021/ie50326a030. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
"SCI Perkin Medal". Chemical Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
"Biopolymer innovator Robert Langer receives 2012 Perkin Medal". SCI. 8 Nov 2012. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
"Perkin Medal Awarded for the First Time for Green Chemistry". Warner Babcock. September 22, 2014.
Wang, Linda (March 10, 2015). "2015 Perkin Medal To Cynthia Maryanoff". Chemical & Engineering News. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
"SCI Awards Perkin Medal To Dow's Peter Trefonas". Chemical Processing. May 10, 2016. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
"SCI Perkin Medal". Chemical Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 9 October 2017.

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