Awards for Organic Chemists
Below, we have listed a variety of awards for organic chemists that are given to recognize achievements in the field. While the ACS Organic Division is not involved in selecting the awardees for the vast number of awards listed below, it has a canvassing committee that helps nominate individuals for various awards especially the ACS Awards–any individual may submit a nomination for each ACS Award (See ACS’ Award Nomination page). Additionally, the Division helps host, advertise, and organize the award symposia given at ACS National Meetings (Awardees choose the division for their symposium). To help ENSURE all candidates that YOU feel are worthy are nominated, please Contact Us.
Award Programs run and selected by the Organic Division leadership/committees
- Paul G. Gassman Distinguished Service Award
- Edward Leete Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching and Research in Organic Chemistry
- Early Career Investigator Award
- Mid-Career Investigator Award
- Technical Achievements in Organic Chemistry (TAOC) (for both Early and Mid Career Chemists)
- Academic Young Investigator’s Symposium (YAS)
Awards the Division supports by making nominations and hosting symposia
- Organometallics Distinguished Author Award (hosting symposia)
- Organic Letters Outstanding Publication of the Year Lectureship Award (hosting symposia)
- JOC Publication of the Year Lectureship Award (hosting symposia)
- ACS Catalysis Lectureship Award
- Organic Process Research & Development Outstanding Publication of the Year Lectureship Award (hosting talk at NOS)
- Tetrahedron Prize (hosting symposia)
- Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award (nominations)
- ACS Fellows (nominations)
- National Fresenius Award (National award given by Phi Lambda Upsilon) (nominations)
ACS National Awards the Division supports by making nominations and often hosting symposia
- Cope Award (See the: DOC’s Cope Award Page)
- Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards
- Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry (Given at NOS, See the: DOC’s Adams Award Page)
- George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry
- Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods
- Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Original Contribution in Organic Synthesis by a Young Investigator
- Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products
- James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry
- ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
ACS National Awards the Division supports by making nominations and ones recently hosted in ORGN
- ACS Award for Affordable Green Chemistry
- ACS Award for Creative Invention
- ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry
- ACS Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution
- ACS Award for Team Innovation
- ACS Award in Industrial Chemistry
- ACS Award in Pure Chemistry
- ACS Award in Separations Science and Technology
- E. B. Hershberg Award for Important Discoveries in Medicinally Active Substances
- E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
- Earle B. Barnes Award for Leadership in Chemical Research Management
- Fredric Stanley Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry
- Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis
- Ipatieff Prize
- Josef Michl ACS Award in Photochemistry
- Kathryn C. Hach Award for Entrepreneurial Success
- Nakanishi Prize
- Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry
- Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide chemistry
- Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry
- The Garvan-Olin Medal
- David A. Evans Award for the Advancement and Education of Organic Synthesis