The Anselme Payen Award is an annual prize named in honor of

Anselme Payen Anselme Payen (; 6 January 1795 – 12 May 1871) was a French chemist known for discovering the enzyme diastase, and the carbohydrate cellulose. Biography Payen was born in Paris. He began studying science with his father when he was a 13-yea ...

, the French scientist who discovered cellulose, and was a pioneer in the chemistry of both cellulose and lignin. In 1838, he discovered that treating successively wood with nitric acid and an alkaline solution yielded a major insoluble residue that he called "cellulose", while dissolved incrustants were later called "lignin" by Frank Schulze. He was the first to attempt separation of wood into its component parts. After treating different woods with

nitric acid Nitric acid is the inorganic compound with the formula . It is a highly corrosive mineral acid. The compound is colorless, but older samples tend to be yellow cast due to decomposition into oxides of nitrogen. Most commercially available nitri ...

he obtained a fibrous substance common to all which he also found in cotton and other plants. His analysis revealed the chemical formula of the substance to be C₆H₁₀O₅. He reported the discovery and the first results of this classic work in 1838 in ''Comptes Rendus''. The name "cellulose" was coined and introduced into the scientific literature next year, in 1839. Anselme Payen Award Recipients
The Anselme Payen Award, which includes a medal and an honorarium given by the

American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 155,000 members at all d ...

's Cellulose and Renewable Materials Division, to honor and encourage "outstanding professional contributions to the science and chemical technology of cellulose and its allied products".
The Anselme Payen Award is an international award and any scientist conducting cellulose and cellulose related research is eligible for nomination. Selection of the awardee is based upon an evaluation of the nomination packages submitted on behalf of potential awardees. These documents are individually ranked by a panel of nine judges who are appointed by the current Chair-Elect and are unknown to each other. Three judges rotate off the panel each year. The identity of all members is known only to the Chair of the awards committee who compiles the results. After the awardee accepts, the Chair of the Awards Committee announces the winner at the next Spring ACS meeting. The awardee for that year is honored at the following Spring ACS meeting at a Symposium and Banquet. The award bears the year the winner was announced. It is presented the following year to allow time for organization of the Symposium and Banquet.

Recipients

{, class="wikitable" , - ! Year !! Awardee !! Institution , - , 1962 , , Louis Elsberg Wise , , The Institute of Paper Chemistry , - , 1963 , , Clifford Burroughs Purves , , McGill University , - , 1964 , , Harold Morton Spurlin , , Hercules , - , 1965 , , Carl Johan Malm , , Eastman Kodak , - , 1966 , , Wayne A. Sisson , , American Viscose , - , 1967 , , Roy L. Whistler , , Purdue University , - , 1968 , , Alfred J. Stamm , , USDA Forest Products Lab , - , 1969 , , Stanley Mason , , McGill University , - , 1970 , , Wilson A. Reeves , , USDA, ARS,

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, - , 1971 , , Tore E. Timell , , SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry , - , 1972 , , Conrad Schuerch , , SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry , - , 1973 , , D. A. I. Goring , , McGill University , - , 1974 , , Vivian Thomas Stannett , , North Carolina State University , - , 1975 , , J. K. N. Jones , , Queens University , - , 1976 , , Robert H. Marchessault , , University of Montreal , - , 1977 , , W. Kyle Ward, Jr. , , The Institute of Paper Chemistry , - , 1978 , , W. Howard Rapson , , University of Toronto , - , 1979 , , Kyosti V. Sarkanen , , University of Washington , - , 1980 , , Olof Samuelson , , Chalmers University of Technology , - , 1981 , , Stanley P. Rowland , , USDA, ARS,

, - , 1982 , , Erich Adler , , Chalmers University of Technology , - , 1983 , , Reginald D. Preston , , Leeds University , - , 1984 , , Jett C. Arthur, Jr. , , USDA, ARS,

, - , 1985 , , Orlando A. Battista , , The O. A. Battista Research Institute , - , 1986 , , R. Malcolm Brown, Jr. , , The University of Texas at Austin , - , 1987 , , Takayoshi Higuchi , ,

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, - , 1988 , , Bengt Ranby , , Royal Institute of Technology , - , 1989 , , Anatole Sarko , ,

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) is a public research university in Syracuse, New York focused on the environment and natural resources. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) sys ...

, - , 1990 , , Junzo Nakano , ,

University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...

, - , 1991 , , Henri Chanzy , , CERMAV, Grenoble , - , 1992 , , Josef Geier , , Royal Institute of Technology , - , 1993 , , Derek Gray , , Paprican, McGill University , - , 1994 , , Geoffrey N. Richards , , University of Montana , - , 1995 , , Josef Gratzl , , North Carolina State University , - , 1996 , , S. Haig Zeronian , , University of California, Davis , - , 1997 , , Joseph L. McCarthy , , University of Washington , - , 1998 , , Rajai H. Atalla , , USDA Forest Products Laboratory , - , 1999 , , John Blackwell Case , , Western Reserve University , - , 2000 , , Wolfgang G. Glasser , , Virginia Tech , - , 2001 , , Liisa Viikari , , VTT Biotechnology , - , 2002 , , R. St. John Manley , , McGill University , - , 2003 , , Deborah P. Delmer , , The Rockefeller Foundation , - , 2004 , , Dieter Klemm , ,

Friedrich Schiller University Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The un ...

, - , 2005 , , Peter Zugenmaier , , Clausthal University of Technology , - , 2006 , , Charles Buchanan , , Eastman Chemical Company , - , 2007 , , Fumitaka Horii , ,

, - , 2008 , , Fumiaki Nakatsubo , ,

, - , 2009 , , Alfred D. French , , USDA, ARS,

, - , 2010 , , J. Thomas Heinze , ,

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, - , 2011 , , Lina Zhang , ,

Wuhan University Wuhan University (WHU; ) is a public research university in Wuhan, Hubei. The university is sponsored by the Ministry of Education. Wuhan university was founded as one of the four elite universities in the early republican period of China and i ...

, - , 2012 , , Hans-Peter Fink , , Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research , - , 2013 , , John Ralph , ,

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, - , 2014 , , Thomas Rosenau , ,

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, - , 2016 , , Kevin Edgar, ,

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, - , 2017 , , Junji Sugiyama , ,

, - , 2018 , , Orlando J. Rojas , ,

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, - , 2019 , , Ann-Christine Albertsson , ,

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, - , 2020 , , Run-Cang Sun , ,

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, - , 2021 , , Yoshiharu Nishiyama , ,

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Grenoble Alpes University The Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA, French: meaning "''Grenoble Alps University''") is a public research university in Grenoble, France. Founded in 1339, it is the third largest university in France with about 60,000 students and over 3,000 resea ...

, - , 2022 , , Christoph Weder , ,

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, - , 2023 , , Lars Berglund , ,

References

Chemistry awards American science and technology awards Awards established in 1962