HONOR

Named for Joseph Priestley, awarded annually since 1923 by the American Chemical Society "to recognize distinguished services to chemistry."

1923	Ira Remsen
1926	Edgar F. Smith
1929	Francis P. Garvan
1932	Charles L. Parsons
1935	William A. Noyes
1938	Marston T. Bogert
1941	Thomas Midgley
1944	James B. Conant
1945	Ian Heilbron
1946	Roger Adams
1947	Warren K. Lewis
1948	Edward R. Weidlein
1949	Arthur B. Lamb
1950	Charles A. Kraus
1951	E. J. Crane
1952	Samuel C. Lind
1953	Sir Robert Robinson
1954	W. Albert Noyes, Jr.
1955	Charles A. Thomas
1956	Carl S. Marvel
1957	Farrington Daniels
1958	Ernest H. Volwiler
1959	H. I. Schlesinger
1960	Wallace R. Brode
1961	Louis P. Hammett
1962	Joel H. Hildebrand
1963	Peter Debye
1964	John C. Bailar, Jr.
1965	William J. Sparks
1966	William Oliver Baker
1967	Ralph Connor
1968	William G. Young
1969	Kenneth S. Pitzer
1970	Max Tishler
1971	Frederick D. Rossini
1972	George B. Kistiakowsky
1973	Harold C. Urey
1974	Paul J. Flory
1975	Henry Eyring
1976	George S. Hammond
1977	Henry Gilman
1978	Melvin Calvin
1979	Glenn Seaborg
1980	Milton Harris
1981	Herbert C. Brown
1982	Bryce Crawford, Jr.
1983	Robert S. Mulliken
1984	Linus Pauling
1985	Henry Taube
1986	Karl A. Folkers
1987	John D. Roberts
1988	Frank H. Westheimer
1989	George C. Pimentel
1990	Roald Hoffmann
1991	Harry B. Gray
1992	Carl Djerassi
1993	Robert W. Parry
1994	Howard E. Simmons
1995	Derek Barton
1996	Ernest L. Eliel
1997	Mary L. Good
1998	F. Albert Cotton
1999	Ronald Breslow
2000	Darleane C. Hoffman
2001	Fred Basolo
2002	Allen J. Bard
2003	Edwin J. Vandenberg
2004	Elias J. Corey
2005	George A. Olah
2006	Paul S. Anderson
2007	George M. Whitesides

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