Linus Pauling Award

Template:Short description The Linus Pauling Award is an award recognizing outstanding achievement in chemistry. It is awarded annually by the Puget Sound, Oregon, and Portland sections of the American Chemical Society, and is named after the US chemist Linus Pauling (1901–1994), to whom it was first awarded in 1966.

Another Linus Pauling Award is given annually by the Chemistry Department at Buffalo State College.

Oregon Laureates

Source: ACS

1966 – Linus Pauling 1967 – Manfred Eigen 1968 – Herbert C. Brown 1969 – Henry Eyring 1970 – Harold C. Urey 1971 – Gerhard Herzberg 1972 – E. Bright Wilson 1973 – E. J. Corey 1974 – Roald Hoffmann 1975 – Paul Doughty Bartlett 1976 – F. Albert Cotton 1977 – John A. Pople 1978 – Dudley Herschbach 1979 – Daniel E. Koshland 1980 – John D. Roberts 1981 – Henry Taube 1982 – George C. Pimentel

1983 – Gilbert Stork 1984 – John S. Waugh 1985 – Harold A. Scheraga 1986 – Harry B. Gray 1987 – Harden M. McConnell 1988 – Keith Ingold 1989 – Neil Bartlett 1990 – James P. Collman 1991 – Rudolph Marcus 1992 – Kenneth B. Wiberg 1993 – Richard N. Zare 1994 – James A. Ibers 1995 – Alexander Rich 1996 – Kyriacos C. Nicolaou 1997 – Ahmed H. Zewail 1998 – Allen J. Bard 1999 – Peter B. Dervan

2000 – Gabor A. Somorjai 2001 – Tobin J. Marks 2002 – John I. Brauman 2003 – Robert H. Grubbs 2004 – Martin Karplus 2005 – George Whitesides 2006 – Peter J. Stang 2007 – Jacqueline K. Barton 2008 – Thomas C. Bruice 2009 – Stephen J. Lippard 2010 – Armand Paul Alivisatos 2011 – Larry R. Dalton 2012 – Robert Cava 2013 – Chad Mirkin 2014 – Stephen Buchwald 2015 – Barry M. Trost 2016 – Timothy M. Swager

2017 – Christopher C. Cummins 2018 – Geraldine Richmond 2019 – Catherine Murphy 2020 – Paul Chirik 2021 – No Medal Awarded (COVID) 2022 – Cynthia J. Burrows 2023 – Laura Gagliardi 2024 - Younan Xia

See also

• List of chemistry awards

Sources

• Linus Pauling Medalists, Portland State University Chemistry Department
• Linus Pauling Award, Buffalo State University Chemistry Department
• Linus Pauling Award, University Washington
• Linus Pauling Medal Award 2010
• Linus Pauling Award 2011
• Linus Pauling Award 2018