The Pittcon Heritage Award recognizes "outstanding individuals whose entrepreneurial careers shaped the instrumentation and laboratory supplies community." The award is jointly sponsored by the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon) and the Science History Institute (formerly the Chemical Heritage Foundation). The award is presented annually at a special ceremony during Pittcon.
Recipients The award is given yearly and was first presented in 2002.
2025 Jeanette Grasselli Brown, director of corporate research of Standard Oil of Ohio (now BP America) 2020 Stan Stearns, founder and director of research of VICI Valco Instruments and related companies 2019 Nicholas Pelick and Walter Supina, Supelco 2018 Michael Morris, SpectrEcology and Ocean Optics 2017 Robert J. Warren, LECO 2016 Kenji Kazato and Kazuo Ito, JEOL 2015 A. Blaine Bowman, Dionex (later acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific) 2014 Lynwood W. Swanson, FEI Company, USA 2013 Günther Laukien, Bruker Physik AG, Germany; (Bruker Corporation), USA 2012 Genzo Shimadzu, Sr., and Genzo Shimadzu, Jr., Shimadzu Corporation, Japan 2011 George Hatsopoulos, John Hatsopoulos, and Arvin Smith, Thermo Electron, USA 2010 Walter Jennings, University of California, Davis, J&W Scientific, USA 2009 Alfred R. Bader, Aldrich Chemical Company (Sigma-Aldrich Corporation), USA 2008 Leroy Hood, Institute for Systems Biology, USA 2007 David Schwartz, Bio-Rad Laboratories, USA 2006 Masao Horiba, Horiba, Japan 2005 Robert W. Allington, Instrumentation Specialties Co. (Teledyne ISCO), USA 2004 Paul A. Wilks, Jr., Wilks Enterprises, USA 2003 Kathryn Hach-Darrow, Hach Company, USA 2002 David Nelson, Nelson Analytical Systems, USA
Photo gallery
See also
List of chemistry awards
References