The Tolman Medal is awarded each year by the Southern California Section 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 ...

(SCALACS) for outstanding contributions to chemistry which include contributions in areas of fundamental studies, chemical technology, and significant contributions to chemical education or outstanding leadership in science on a national level. To be eligible for the Medal, the recipient must have accomplished the majority of his or her work while resident in Southern California. The Medal is named for physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman.

Recipients

Source
SCALACS
* 1960 William G. Young * 1961 Anton Burg * 1962 Ernest H. Swift * 1963 W. Conway Pierce * 1964 Arie J. Haagen-Smit * 1965 Thomas F. Doumani, Union Oil Company * 1966 Arthur Adamson, USC * 1967 Ulric B. Bray, Bray Oil Company * 1968 Francis E. Blacet, UCLA * 1969 Robert D. Vold, USC * 1970 Robert L. Pecsok, UCLA * 1971 Roland C. Hansford, Union Oil Company * 1972 James Bonner, Caltech * 1973 Howard Reiss, UCLA * 1974

John D. Roberts John Dombrowski Roberts (June 8, 1918 – October 29, 2016) was an American chemist. He made contributions to the integration of physical chemistry, spectroscopy, and organic chemistry for the understanding of chemical reaction rates. Ano ...

, Caltech * 1975 Dr.

Corwin Hansch Corwin Herman Hansch (October 6, 1918 – May 8, 2011) was a Professor of Chemistry at Pomona College in California. He became known as the 'father of computer-assisted molecule design.' Education and Career Hansch was born on October 6, 1918 in ...

, Pomona College * 1976

F. Sherwood Rowland Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland (June 28, 1927 – March 10, 2012) was an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research was on atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics. His be ...

, U. C. Irvine * 1977 Sidney W. Benson, USC * 1978 Thomas C. Bruice, UCSB * 1979 Harry B. Gray, Caltech * 1980 Herbert D. Kaesz, UCLA * 1981

Paul D. Boyer Paul Delos Boyer (July 31, 1918 – June 2, 2018) was an American biochemist, analytical chemist, and a professor of chemistry at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on the " enzy ...

, UCLA * 1982 Donald T. Sawyer, UCR * 1983 James N. Pitts, Air Pollution Research Center, UCR * 1984

Donald J. Cram Donald James Cram (April 22, 1919 – June 17, 2001) was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific inter ...

, UCLA * 1985

Arnold O. Beckman Arnold Orville Beckman (April 10, 1900 – May 18, 2004) was an American chemist, inventor, investor, and philanthropist. While a professor at California Institute of Technology, he founded Beckman Instruments based on his 1934 invention of th ...

, Beckman Instruments, Inc. * 1986 M. Frederick Hawthorne, UCLA * 1987 Clifford A. Bunton, UC, Santa Barbara * 1988 John D. Baldeschwieler, Caltech * 1989

Mostafa El-Sayed Mostafa A. El-Sayed (Arabic: مصطفى السيد) is an Egyptian-American physical chemist, a leading nanoscience researcher, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a US National Medal of Science laureate. He was the editor-in-chief ...

, UCLA * 1990

Linus Pauling Linus Carl Pauling (; February 28, 1901August 19, 1994) was an American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific top ...

, Caltech * 1991

George Olah George Andrew Olah (born Oláh András György; May 22, 1927 – March 8, 2017) was a Hungarian-American chemist. His research involved the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids. For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Pr ...

, USC * 1992 Peter C. Ford, UC Santa Barbara * 1993 Charles L. Wilkins, UC Riverside * 1994

Jacqueline K. Barton Jacqueline K. Barton (born May 7, 1952 New York City, NY), is an American chemist. She worked as a Professor of Chemistry at Hunter College (1980–82), and at Columbia University (1983–89) before joining the California Institute of Technology. ...

, Caltech * 1995 Christopher S. Foote, UCLA * 1996 Larry R. Dalton, USC * 1997

Ahmed H. Zewail Ahmed Hassan Zewail ( ar, أحمد حسن زويل, ; February 26, 1946 – August 2, 2016) was an Egyptian-American chemist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry ...

, Caltech * 1998 Kendall N. Houk, UCLA * 1999 Peter B. Dervan, Caltech * 2000 Dr. William Andrew Goddard III, Caltech * 2001 Peter M. Rentzepis, UC Irvine * 2002

Robert H. Grubbs Robert Howard Grubbs ForMemRS (February 27, 1942 – December 19, 2021) was an American chemist and the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He was a co-recipient ...

, Caltech * 2003

Arieh Warshel Arieh Warshel ( he, אריה ורשל; born November 20, 1940) is an Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist. He is a pioneer in computational studies on functional properties of biological molecules, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry ...

, USC * 2004 Christopher Reed, UC Riverside * 2005 Fred Wudl, UCLA * 2006 G. K. Surya Prakash, USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute * 2007 Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, UC Irvine * 2008 Joan S. Valentine, UCLA * 2009 Richard B. Kaner, UCLA * 2010 Dennis A. Dougherty, Caltech * 2011

Karl O. Christe Karl Otto Christe (born July 24, 1936) is an inorganic chemist. He is the best reference in respectful handling of a huge number of extremely reactive components and his extensive experience in fluorine chemistry earned him the title of 'The Fluor ...

, USC * 2012 John Bercaw, Caltech * 2013 Mark E. Thompson, USC * 2014 William J. Evans, UC Irvine * 2015 Michael Jung, UCLA * 2016 Paul S. Weiss, UCLA * 2017 Jeffrey I. Zink, UCLA * 2018 Clifford P. Kubiak, UC San Diego * 2019 A. S. Borovik, UCI * 2020 Pingyun Feng, UCR * 2021 Donald R. Blake, UCI

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