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
See also
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List of chemistry awards
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References
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Awards of the American Chemical Society
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