The Herman Skolnik Award is awarded annually by the Division of Chemical Information of the American Chemical Society, "to recognize outstanding contributions to and achievements in the theory and practice of chemical information science". the award is of 3,000 US dollars.
It is named for Herman Skolnik (1914-1994), who was a co-founder of the then ACS Division of Chemical Literature in 1948 and a key figure in the Division. The first award was made to him.
Recipients
Source:
1970s 1976: Herman Skolnik 1977: Eugene Garfield 1978: Fred A. Tate
1980s 1980: William J. Wiswesser 1981: Ben H. Weil 1982: Robert Fugmann 1983: Russell J. Rowlett, Jr. 1984: Montagu Hyams 1986: Dale B. Baker 1987: William Theilheimer 1988: David R. Lide, Jr. 1989: Michael F. Lynch and Stuart Marson
1990s 1990: Ernst Meyer 1991: Todd Wipke 1992: Jacques-Emile Dubois 1993: Peter Willett 1994: Alexandru T. Balaban 1995: Reiner Luckenbach and Clemens Jochum 1996: Milan Randic 1997: Johann Gasteiger 1998: Gary D. Wiggins 1999: Stuart M. Kaback
2000s 2000: Stephen R. Heller and G. W. A. Milne 2001: Guenter Grethe 2002: Peter Norton 2003: Frank H. Allen 2004: Peter Johnson 2005: Lorrin Garson 2006: Hugo Kubinyi 2007: Robert S. Pearlman 2008: Gerald M. Maggiora 2009: Yvonne Connolly Martin
2010s 2010: Anton J. Hopfinger 2011: Alexander Lawson 2012: Peter Murray-Rust and Henry Rzepa 2013: Richard D. Cramer 2014: Engelbert Zass 2015: Jürgen Bajorath 2016: Stephen H. Bryant and Evan Bolton 2017: David Winkler 2018: Gisbert Schneider 2019: Kimito Funatsu
2020s 2020: Wendy A. Warr 2023 Patrick Walters 2024 Alexandre Varnek 2025 Matthias Rarey 2026 Antony John Williams
See also
List of chemistry awards List of computer science awards
References