The Tolman Medal is awarded each year by the Southern California Section of the
American Chemical Society (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 Baccalau ...
* 1961
Anton Burg
Anton Behme Burg (October 18, 1904 – November 18, 2003) was an American chemist. He was chairman of the University of Southern California chemistry department and an expert on boron.
Burg joined USC in 1939 as an assistant professor. He buil ...
* 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 ga ...
* 1964
Arie J. Haagen-Smit
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* 1965
Thomas F. Doumani
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, Union Oil Company
* 1966
Arthur Adamson, USC
* 1967
Ulric B. Bray Ulric was originally a form of the Old English male name Wulfric but is now seen as a form of Ulrich. Ulric may refer to:
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, Bray Oil Company
* 1968
Francis E. Blacet
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, UCLA
* 1969
Robert D. Vold
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, USC
* 1970
Robert L. Pecsok
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, UCLA
* 1971 Roland C. Hansford, Union Oil Company
* 1972 James Bonner (chemist), James Bonner, Caltech
* 1973 Howard Reiss, UCLA
* 1974 John D. Roberts, Caltech
* 1975 Dr. Corwin Hansch, Pomona College
* 1976 F. Sherwood Rowland, 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, 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, UCLA
* 1990 Linus Pauling, 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, Caltech
* 2001 Peter M. Rentzepis, UC Irvine
* 2002 Robert H. Grubbs, Caltech
* 2003 Arieh Warshel, USC
* 2004 Christopher Reed (chemist), 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 (Chemist), William J. Evans, UC Irvine
* 2015 Michael E. Jung, Michael Jung, UCLA
* 2016 Paul S. Weiss, UCLA
* 2017 Jeffrey Zink, Jeffrey I. Zink, UCLA
* 2018 Clifford Kubiak, Clifford P. Kubiak, UC San Diego
* 2019 A. S. Borovik, UCI
* 2020 Pingyun Feng, UCR
* 2021 Donald R. Blake, UCI
See also
*List of chemistry awards
*List of prizes named after people
References
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Awards of the American Chemical Society
American science and technology awards
Awards established in 1961
Science and technology in California
Southern California