The Tolman Medal is awarded each year by the Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society (SCALACS) for outstanding contributions to chemistry which include contributions in areas of fundamental studies, chemical technology, and significant contributions to chemical education or outstanding leadership in science on a national level. To be eligible for the Medal, the recipient must have accomplished the majority of his or her work while resident in Southern California.
The Medal is named for physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman.
Recipients Source: SCALACS 1960 William Gould Young 1961 Anton Burg 1962 Ernest H. Swift 1963 W. Conway Pierce 1964 Arie J. Haagen-Smit 1965 Thomas F. Doumani, Union Oil Company 1966 Arthur Adamson, USC 1967 Ulric B. Bray, Bray Oil Company 1968 Francis E. Blacet, UCLA 1969 Robert D. Vold, USC 1970 Robert L. Pecsok, UCLA 1971 Roland C. Hansford, Union Oil Company 1972 James Bonner, Caltech 1973 Howard Reiss, UCLA 1974 John D. Roberts, Caltech 1975 Dr. Corwin Hansch, Pomona College 1976 F. Sherwood Rowland, U. C. Irvine 1977 Sidney W. Benson, USC 1978 Thomas C. Bruice, UCSB 1979 Harry B. Gray, Caltech 1980 Herbert D. Kaesz, UCLA 1981 Paul D. Boyer, UCLA 1982 Donald T. Sawyer, UCR 1983 James N. Pitts, Air Pollution Research Center, UCR 1984 Donald J. Cram, UCLA 1985 Arnold O. Beckman, Beckman Instruments, Inc. 1986 M. Frederick Hawthorne, UCLA 1987 Clifford A. Bunton, UC, Santa Barbara 1988 John D. Baldeschwieler, Caltech 1989 Mostafa El-Sayed, UCLA 1990 Linus Pauling, Caltech 1991 George Olah, USC 1992 Peter C. Ford, UC Santa Barbara 1993 Charles L. Wilkins, UC Riverside 1994 Jacqueline K. Barton, Caltech 1995 Christopher S. Foote, UCLA 1996 Larry R. Dalton, USC 1997 Ahmed H. Zewail, Caltech 1998 Kendall N. Houk, UCLA 1999 Peter B. Dervan, Caltech 2000 Dr. William Andrew Goddard III, Caltech 2001 Peter M. Rentzepis, UC Irvine 2002 Robert H. Grubbs, Caltech 2003 Arieh Warshel, USC 2004 Christopher Reed, UC Riverside 2005 Fred Wudl, UCLA 2006 G. K. Surya Prakash, USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute 2007 Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, UC Irvine 2008 Joan S. Valentine, UCLA 2009 Richard B. Kaner, UCLA 2010 Dennis A. Dougherty, Caltech 2011 Karl O. Christe, USC 2012 John Bercaw, Caltech 2013 Mark E. Thompson, USC 2014 William J. Evans, UC Irvine 2015 Michael Jung, UCLA 2016 Paul S. Weiss, UCLA 2017 Jeffrey I. Zink, UCLA 2018 Clifford P. Kubiak, UC San Diego 2019 A. S. Borovik, UCI 2020 Pingyun Feng, UCR 2021 Donald R. Blake, UCI 2022 Alison Butler, UCSB 2023 Sarah H. Tolbert, UCLA
See also List of chemistry awards List of prizes named after people
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