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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 ...
(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 Richard Chace Tolman (March 4, 1881 – September 5, 1948) was an American mathematical physicist and physical chemist who made many contributions to statistical mechanics. He also made important contributions to theoretical cosmology in t ...
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Recipients

Source
SCALACS
* 1960
William G. Young William Glover Young (born September 23, 1940) is a Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Education and career Born in Huntington, New York, Young received an Artium Baccalaur ...
* 1961 Anton Burg * 1962 Ernest H. Swift * 1963
W. Conway Pierce Willis Conway Pierce (December 2, 1895 – December 23, 1974) was an American chemist and professor at Pomona College and in the University of California system. Career Pierce left Georgetown College as a sophomore for New York to serve in the ...
* 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. Another ...
, 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 i ...
, 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 bes ...
, 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, UCLA * 1985 Arnold O. Beckman, 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 topi ...
, Caltech * 1991 George Olah, USC * 1992 Peter C. Ford, UC Santa Barbara * 1993 Charles L. Wilkins, UC Riverside * 1994 Jacqueline K. Barton, Caltech * 1995 Christopher S. Foote, UCLA * 1996 Larry R. Dalton, USC * 1997 Ahmed H. Zewail, Caltech * 1998 Kendall N. Houk, UCLA * 1999 Peter B. Dervan, Caltech * 2000 Dr.
William Andrew Goddard III William Andrew Goddard III (born March 29, 1937) is the Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry and Applied Physics, and Director of the Materials and Process Simulation Center at the California Institute of Technology. He obtained his B. ...
, 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, 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 This list of chemistry awards is an index to articles about notable awards for chemistry. It includes awards by the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Chemical Society, the Society of Chemical Industry and awards by other organizations. ...
* List of prizes named after people


References

{{Reflist Awards of the American Chemical Society American science and technology awards Awards established in 1961 Science and technology in California Southern California