The Nakanishi Prize, named after Japanese chemist Koji Nakanishi, is an award in chemistry given alternately by the Chemical Society of Japan and the American Chemical Society.
Purpose "To recognize and stimulate significant work that extends chemical and spectroscopic methods to the study of important biological phenomena."
History In 1995, friends and colleagues of Nakanishi established the Nakanishi Prize. It was decided that the Chemical Society of Japan and the American Chemical Society would alternate years awarding the prize. There are two separate endowments for the prize for each society, but the prize is the same for both awards: a medallion in presentation box, $5,000 prize money, and $2,500 travel reimbursements.
Recipients Source: American Chemical Society YearRecipientInstitutionRationaleAwarded by1996Yoshimasa HirataNagoya UniversityChemical Society of Japan1997Frank H. WestheimerHarvard UniversityAmerican Chemical Society1998Albert J. EschenmoserETH ZurichChemical Society of Japan1999Jeremy R. KnowlesHarvard UniversityAmerican Chemical Society2000Satoshi ŌmuraKitasato UniversityChemical Society of Japan2001John D. RobertsCalifornia Institute of TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society2002Sir Jack BaldwinUniversity of OxfordChemical Society of Japan2003A. Ian ScottTexas A&M UniversityAmerican Chemical Society2004Isao KitagawaKyoritsu College of Pharmacy Osaka UniversityChemical Society of Japan2005Stephen J. BenkovicPennsylvania State UniversityAmerican Chemical Society2006Takeshi YasumotoTohoku University Okinawa Science and Technology Promotion CenterFor his "contribution to the chemistry of seafood poisonings and analytical study on dynamism of the causative toxic molecules among marine ecology"Chemical Society of Japan2007Hung-wen LiuUniversity of Texas at AustinAmerican Chemical Society2008Michel RohmerLouis Pasteur UniversityChemical Society of Japan2009JoAnne StubbeMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyFor identifying the role of radical intermediates in ribonucleotide reductase functionsAmerican Chemical Society2010Shosuke YamamuraKeio UniversityChemical Society of Japan2011C. Dale PoulterUniversity of UtahAmerican Chemical Society2012Daisuke UemuraKanagawa UniversityChemical Society of Japan2013Arthur G. Palmer IIIColumbia UniversityAmerican Chemical Society2014Jerrold MeinwaldCornell UniversityChemical Society of Japan2015Fred W. McLaffertyCornell UniversityFor developing “top-down proteomics” for characterizing a protein's sequence and modificationsAmerican Chemical Society2016 Shoichi KusumotoChemical Society of Japan2017Martin GruebeleAmerican Chemical Society2018Nobuyuki Harada Tohoku UniversityChemical Society of Japan2019 Lewis E. Kay University of TorontoAmerican Chemical Society2020Yoshito KishiHarvard UniversityChemical Society of Japan2021Mei HongMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society2022Takenori KusumiTokushima UniversityChemical Society of Japan2023Gilad HaranWeizmann Institute of ScienceAmerican Chemical Society2024Minoru Isobe
See also List of chemistry awards
References
External links Nakanishi Prize Homepage