Gold Medal Award Winners:
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.
2029
2028
2027
2026
| Dr. Timothy M. Swager |
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
2025
| Dr. Peter G. Schultz |
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| Scripps Research |
2024
| Dr. K. Barry Sharpless |
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| Scripps Research |
2023
| Dr. Brian M. Hoffman |
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| Chatt Award: 2012, Cotton Medal: 2013 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
2022
| Dr. Peter J. Stang |
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| Priestley Medal: 2013 |
| University of Utah |
2021
None
2020
| Dr. Henry F. Schafer, III |
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| University of Georgia |
2019
| Dr. E. Gerald Meyer |
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| University of Wyoming |
2018
| Dr. Stephen J. Lippard |
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
2017
| Dr. Chad Mirkin |
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| Northwestern University |
2016
| Dr. Jacqueline K. Barton |
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| California Institute of Technology |
2015
| Dr. Ronald C. D. Breslow* |
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| Columbia University |
2014
| Dr. John Roberts* |
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| California Institute of Technology |
2013
| Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn |
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| Nobel Prize: 2009 Physiology or Medicine |
| University of California, San Francisco |
2012
| Dr. Dudley Herschbach |
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| Nobel Prize: 1986 Chemistry |
| Harvard University |
2011
| Dr. Robert Grubbs* |
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| Nobel Prize: 2005 Chemistry |
2010
| Dr. Oliver Smithies* |
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| Nobel Prize: 2007 Medicine |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
2009
| Dr. Walter Gilbert |
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| Nobel Prize: 1980 Chemistry |
| Harvard University |
2008
| Dr. Paul Berg |
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| Nobel Prize: 1980 Chemistry |
| Stanford University |
| Dr. George Whitesides |
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| Harvard University |
2007
| Dr. Roald Hoffman |
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| Cornell University |
2006
Mr. Robert L. McNeil,
Jr.*
2005
Dr. Carl Djerassi*
2004
Dr. Ralph Hirschmann*
2003
Dr.
Tobin Marks
2002
Dr.
Yie W. Chien
2000
| Dr. Elias J. Corey |
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| Nobel Prize: 1990 Chemistry |
1989
Dr. George C. Pimentel*
1988
Dr. Arnold O. Beckman*
1987
Dr. N. Bruce Hannay
1986
| Dr. Herbert C. Brown* |
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| Nobel Prize: 1979 Chemistry |
1985
Dr. John H. Sinfelt*
1984
Dr. Mary L. Good
1983
Dr.
Milton Harris*
1982
Dr.
Lewis Sarett
1981
Dr.
Arthur M. Bueche*
1980
| Dr. Melvin Calvin |
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| Nobel Prize: 1961 Chemistry |
1979
Dr. Norman Hackerman
1978
Dr. Max Tishler*
1977
Dr. Kenneth S. Pitzer*
1976
Dr. William O. Baker*
1975
Dr. W. E. "Butch" Hanford*
1974
| Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg* |
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| Nobel Prize: 1951 Chemistry |
1973
Dr.
Harold C. Urey*
1972
Dr.
Emmett B. Carmichael*
1971
| Dr. Willard F. Libby* |
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| Nobel Prize: 1960 Chemistry |
1970
Dr. Warren
K. Lewis*
1949
Dr. Charles A. Thomas*
1948
Dr. Moses Leverock
Crossley*
1947
Mr. Robert Price
Russell*
1946
Dr. John W. Thomas*
1945
Dr. Willard H. Dow*
1944
Dr. Walter S. Landis*
1943
Dr.
William Lloyd Evans*
1942
Dr.
Henry G. Knight*
1941
Dr.
Gustav Egloff*
1940
Dr. Frederick
G. Cottrell*
1938
Dr. James F. Norris*
1937
Dr. Marston Taylor
Bogert*
1936
Dr. Julius A. Nieuwland*
1935
Dr. James Bryant
Conant*
1934
Dr. Henry C. Sherman*
1933
Dr.
Charles H. Herty*
1932
Mr.
Andrew W. & Mr. Richard B. Mellon*
1931
Mr.
George Eastman*
1930
