Chemical Pioneer Award

Recent recipients

Source: AIC

• 2022 Alison Butler, Chi-Huey Wong
• 2021 Benjamin Cravatt, Veronica Vaida, Jonathan L. Sessler
• 2020 No award
• 2019 William H. Starnes, Jr., Peng Chen, Richard B. Kaner
• 2018 Kenneth S. Suslick (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Vicki H. Grassian (UC San Diego); Mercouri Kanatzidis (Northwestern University)
• 2017 Paul A. Craig (Rochester Institute of Technology); Jeffrey W. Kelly (Scripps Research Institute); Marek W. Urban (Clemson University)
• 2016 Rebecca L. Cann (University of Hawaii at Manoa); Donna Blackmond (The Scripps Research Institute); Michael Wasielewski (Northwestern University)
• 2015 No award
• 2014 Anthony Cheetham (University of Cambridge, England); Ann M. Valentine (Temple University); Robert Langer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• 2013 Henry F. Schaefer, III (University of Georgia); Thomas R. Tritton (Chemical Heritage Foundation)
• 2012 Robert Lochhead; Helen Free
• 2011 James Christner
• 2010 Sossina M. Haile (Caltech)
• 2009 Keith Carron (University of Wyoming); Debashis Mukherjee (IACS)
• 2008 E. Gerald Meyer (University of Wyoming); Barnaby Munson (University of Delaware)
• 2007 Magid Abou-Gharbia; Dennis Y-M Lo; Alan G. Marshall (Florida State University)
• 2006 Glenn Crosby; David Devraj Kumar (Florida Atlantic University)
• 2005 Bassam Shakhashiri; Steven L. Suib; C.N.R. Rao
• 2004 Keki H. Gharda; Eric Jacobsen; Michael Pirrung
• 2002 Gerard Jaouen; Julius Rebek
• 2000 Richard A. Adams; Robert G. Bergman; Larry Dahl; Wilfried Mortier; Kenner Rice