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Othmer Gold Medal

Index Othmer Gold Medal

The Othmer Gold Medal recognizes outstanding individuals who contributed to progress in chemistry and science through their activities in areas including innovation, entrepreneurship, research, education, public understanding, legislation, and philanthropy. [1]

30 relations: Ahmed Zewail, American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Arnold Orville Beckman, Carl Djerassi, Donald Othmer, George M. Whitesides, George S. Hammond, Gordon Moore, Harry B. Gray, James Watson, John D. Baldeschwieler, Jon Huntsman Sr., Joshua Boger, Kazuo Inamori, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Mary L. Good, Marye Anne Fox, Mukesh Ambani, P. Roy Vagelos, Phillip Allen Sharp, Ralph Landau, Richard Zare, Robert S. Langer, Ronald Breslow, Science History Institute, Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section), The Chemists' Club, Thomas Cech, Yuan T. Lee.

Ahmed Zewail

Ahmed Hassan Zewail (أحمد حسن زويل,; February 26, 1946 – August 2, 2016) was an Egyptian-American scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry".

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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.

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American Institute of Chemical Engineers

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) is a professional organization for chemical engineers.

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Arnold Orville Beckman

Arnold Orville Beckman (April 10, 1900 – May 18, 2004) was an American chemist, inventor, investor, and philanthropist.

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Carl Djerassi

Carl Djerassi (October 29, 1923 – January 30, 2015) was an Austrian-born Bulgarian-American chemist, novelist, playwright and co-founder of with Diane Wood Middlebrook.

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Donald Othmer

Donald Frederick Othmer (May 11, 1904 – November 1, 1995) was an American professor of chemical engineering, an inventor, multi-millionaire and philanthropist, whose most famous work is the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology.

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George M. Whitesides

George McClelland Whitesides (born August 3, 1939) is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University.

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George S. Hammond

George Simms Hammond (May 22, 1921 – October 5, 2005) was an American scientist and theoretical chemist who developed "Hammond's postulate", and fathered organic photochemistry,–the general theory of the geometric structure of the transition state in an organic chemical reaction.

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Gordon Moore

Gordon Earle Moore (born January 3, 1929) is an American businessman, engineer, co-founder and chairman emeritus of Intel Corporation, and the author of Moore's law.

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Harry B. Gray

Harry Barkus Gray (born 14 November 1935 in Woodburn, Kentucky, U.S.A.) is the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology.

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James Watson

James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin.

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John D. Baldeschwieler

John D. Baldeschwieler is an American chemist who has made significant contributions in Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy.

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Jon Huntsman Sr.

Jon Meade Huntsman Sr. (June 21, 1937 – February 2, 2018) was an American businessman and philanthropist.

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Joshua Boger

Joshua S. Boger (born April 12, 1951) is an organic chemist and the founder of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated.

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Kazuo Inamori

is a Japanese philanthropist, entrepreneur and the founder of Kyocera and KDDI.

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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (born 23 March 1953) is an Indian billionaire entrepreneur.

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Mary L. Good

Mary Lowe Good (born June 20, 1931) is an inorganic chemist who has worked academically, in industrial research and in government.

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Marye Anne Fox

Marye Anne Payne Fox (born 9 December 1947) is a physical organic chemist and university administrator.

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Mukesh Ambani

Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani (born 19 April 1957) is an Indian business magnate who is the chairman, managing director and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), a Fortune Global 500 company and India's most valuable company by market value.

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P. Roy Vagelos

Pindaros Roy Vagelos (born October 8, 1929 in Westfield, New Jersey), better known as P. Roy Vagelos or Roy Vagelos, is an American physician and business executive, who was president and chief executive officer (1985) and chairman (1986) of the American pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. (known as MSD outside the U.S.). He attracted research scientists who developed many major new drugs.

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Phillip Allen Sharp

Phillip Allen Sharp (born June 6, 1944) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing.

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Ralph Landau

Ralph Landau (May 19, 1916 – April 5, 2004) was a chemical engineer and entrepreneur active in the chemical and petrochemical industries.

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Richard Zare

Richard Neil Zare (born November 19, 1939, Cleveland, Ohio) is the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science and a Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.

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Robert S. Langer

Robert Samuel Langer, Jr. FREng (born August 29, 1948 in Albany, New York) is an American chemical engineer, scientist, entrepreneur, inventor and an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Ronald Breslow

Ronald Charles D. Breslow (March 14, 1931 – October 25, 2017) was an American chemist from Rahway, New Jersey.

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Science History Institute

The Science History Institute is an institution that preserves and promotes understanding of the history of science.

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Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section)

The Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) is an independent learned society inspired by the creation of the Société de Chimie Industrielle in Paris in 1917.

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The Chemists' Club

The Chemists' Club is a private club in New York whose membership is open to research and industrial chemists from all areas.

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Thomas Cech

Thomas Robert Cech (born December 8, 1947) is an American chemist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sidney Altman, for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA.

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Yuan T. Lee

Yuan Tseh Lee (born 19 November 1936) is a Taiwanese chemist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othmer_Gold_Medal

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