The Herman Skolnik Award is awarded annually by the Division of Chemical Information of 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 ...

, "to recognize outstanding contributions to and achievements in the theory and practice of chemical information science". the award is of 3,000 US dollars. It is named for Herman Skolnik (1914-1994), who was a co-founder of the then ACS Division of Chemical Literature in 1948 and a key figure in the Division. The first award was made to him.

Recipients

1970s

*1976: Herman Skolnik *1977:

Eugene Garfield Eugene Eli Garfield (September 16, 1925 – February 26, 2017) was an American linguist and businessman, one of the founders of bibliometrics and scientometrics. He helped to create ''Current Contents'', ''Science Citation Index'' (SCI), ''Journ ...

*1978:

Fred A. Tate Fred may refer to: People * Fred (name), including a list of people and characters with the name Mononym * Fred (cartoonist) (1931–2013), pen name of Fred Othon Aristidès, French * Fred (footballer, born 1949) (1949–2022), Frederico Rodr ...

1980s

*1980: William J. Wiswesser *1981: Ben H. Weil *1982:

Robert Fugmann The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

*1983: Russell J. Rowlett, Jr. *1984: Montagu Hyams *1986: Dale B. Baker *1987: William Theilheimer *1988: David R. Lide, Jr. *1989: Michael F. Lynch and Stuart Marson

1990s

*1990: Ernst Meyer *1991: Todd Wipke *1992: Jacques-Emile Dubois *1993:

Peter Willett Peter Willett is an Emeritus Professor of Information Science at the University of Sheffield, England. Life and education Willett was born 20 April 1953, obtained an Honors degree in Chemistry from Exeter College, Oxford in 1975 and then went to ...

*1994: Alexandru T. Balaban *1995: Reiner Luckenbach and Clemens Jochum *1996: Milan Randic *1997: Johann Gasteiger *1998:

Gary D. Wiggins Gary may refer to: *Gary (given name), a common masculine given name, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name *Gary, Indiana, the largest city named Gary Places ;Iran * Gary, Iran, Sistan and Baluchestan Province ;Uni ...

*1999: Stuart M. Kaback

2000s

*2000: Stephen R. Heller and G. W. A. Milne *2001: Guenter Grethe *2002:

Peter Norton Peter Norton (born November 14, 1943) is an American programmer, software publisher, author, and philanthropist. He is best known for the computer programs and books that bear his name and portrait. Norton sold his software business to Symantec ...

*2003: Frank H. Allen *2004: Peter Johnson *2005: Lorrin Garson *2006:

Hugo Kubinyi Hugo or HUGO may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Hugo'' (film), a 2011 film directed by Martin Scorsese * Hugo Award, a science fiction and fantasy award named after Hugo Gernsback * Hugo (franchise), a children's media franchise based on a ...

*2007: Robert S. Pearlman *2008: Gerald M. Maggiora *2009: Yvonne Connolly Martin

2010s

*2010: Anton J. Hopfinger *2011:

Alexander Lawson Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...

*2012:

Peter Murray-Rust Peter Murray-Rust (born 1941) is a chemist currently working at the University of Cambridge. As well as his work in chemistry, Murray-Rust is also known for his support of open access and open data. Education He was educated at Bootham School ...

and

Henry Rzepa Henry Stephen Rzepa (born 1950) is a chemist and Emeritus Professor of Computational chemistry at Imperial College London. Education Rzepa was born in London in 1950, was educated at Wandsworth Comprehensive School, and then entered the chemi ...

*2013: Richard D. Cramer *2014: Engelbert Zass *2015: Jürgen Bajorath *2016: Steve Bryant and Evan Bolton *2017: David Winkler *2018: Gisbert Schneider *2019:

Kimito Funatsu is a Japanese chemist specializing in chemoinformatics and data-driven chemistry, a Professor Emeritus at University of Tokyo, and the research director of the Data Science Center at Nara Institute of Science and Technology. Biography He gra ...

*2020: Wendy A. Warr

Recipients

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

See also

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