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General Guide for Chemists and Chemical Engineers

Awards, Honors, & Prizes

The Albert Einstein World Award of Science
The “Albert Einstein” World Award of Science was created as a means of recognition, and as an incentive to scientific and technological research and development. It takes into special consideration those researches which have brought true benefit and well being to mankind. The recipient of the award is elected by the Interdisciplinary Committee, which is constituted of world-renowned scientists, among them 25 Nobel laureates. The award consists of a Diploma, a Commemorative medal, and $10,000 dollars (US).
American Association for the Advancement of Science: Awards
American Chemical Society: Funding and Awards
- Browse Awards
- Awards Granted to Younger Chemists!
American Institute of Chemical Engineers: Awards
Baylor University — Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching
The Cherry Award program is designed to honor great teachers, to stimulate discussion in the academy about the value of teaching, and to encourage departments and institutions to value their own great teachers. The winner of the Cherry Award will receive a prize of $200,000 and will teach in residence at Baylor University during the 2006 fall or 2007 spring semester; travel expenses and a furnished apartment will be provided. To further Baylor University’s commitment to great teaching, the winner’s home department will receive $25,000.
The Enrico Fermi Award
The Enrico Fermi Award is a Presidential award — one of the oldest and most prestigious science and technology awards given by the U.S. Government. It recognizes scientists of international stature for their lifetimes of exceptional achievement in the development, use, or production of energy (broadly defined to include the science and technology of nuclear, atomic, molecular, and particle interactions and effects). Fermi Award winners receive a citation signed by the President and the Secretary of Energy, a gold medal bearing the likeness of Enrico Fermi, and a $100,000 honorarium. In the event the Award is given to more than one individual in the same year, the recipients share $200,000.
Essays on the Nobel Prize (Eugene Garfield)
FECS: 100 Distinguished European Chemists
Fritz Pregl Prize
Fritz Pregl Prize is awarded annually since 1931 by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, from the funds left at its disposal by the Nobel prize-winning chemist Fritz Pregl, to an Austrian scientist for distinguished achievements in chemistry.
Hertz Foundation Graduate Student Fellowship Awards
Ig Nobel Prizes
The MacArthur Fellows Program
The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. There are three criteria for selection of Fellows: exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work. The MacArthur Fellows Program is intended to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations. In keeping with this purpose, the Foundation awards fellowships directly to individuals rather than through institutions. Recipients may be writers, scientists, artists, social scientists, humanists, teachers, entrepreneurs, or those in other fields, with or without institutional affiliations. They may use their fellowship to advance their expertise, engage in bold new work, or, if they wish, to change fields or alter the direction of their careers.
National Academy of Engineering Awards
National Academy of Sciences Awards
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation
National Science Foundation (NSF) — Alan T. Waterman Award
The annual award recognizes an outstanding young researcher in any field of science or engineering supported by the National Science Foundation. In addition to a medal, the awardee receives a grant of $500,000 over a three year period for scientific research or advanced study in the mathematical, physical, medical, biological, engineering, social, or other sciences at the institution of the recipient’s choice.
National Science Foundation (NSF) — The National Medal of Science
The National Medal of Science was established by the 86th Congress in 1959 as a Presidential Award to be given to individuals “deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences.”
Nobelprize.org: The Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation
The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
Royal Society of Chemistry. Prizes and Awards
Stanford University. School of Humanities and Sciences. Awards and Honors | Facts: A Renowned Faculty
Stanford University — Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry
For a junior with a demonstrated aptitude in analytical chemistry; sponsored by the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. Award: 8-month subscription to Analytical Chemistry and an honorary membership in the Division of Analytical Chemistry for a like period.
Stanford University — Awards for Graduating Seniors
- S.S. & I.M.F. Marsden Memorial Prize in Chemistry
  for an outstanding undergraduate student who has been involved in significant research in the Chemistry Department, and preferably is going on to graduate school in chemistry. Chemistry’s most prestigious award. Prize: certificate and $1,000.
- Merck Index Award
  for an outstanding student in chemistry. Award: Merck Index (engraved with name of student).
- Firestone Medal
  for the best honors thesis (chemistry is pooled with several other departments and programs each with fewer than ten honors theses). Note: honors in chemistry does not require a thesis. Award: engraved bronze medal and $200.
The Welch Foundation — Welch Award in Chemistry
Any person can be considered for the award who has made important chemical research contributions which have had a significant, positive influence on mankind. The award is intended to recognize contributions that have not previously been rewarded in a similar manner.
The Welch Foundation — Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research
The Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research was established by the Foundation to honor Scientific Advisory Board Chairman, Norman Hackerman, and to encourage and recognize young chemical scientists in Texas for their past research endeavors. The award will be made on an annual basis, when warranted, to a younger scientist who is age 40 or younger on June 30 for the year in which nominated and should have spent the most recent three (3) years doing chemical research in Texas.
The Wolf Prize in Chemistry