The Chemical Institute of Canada Medal or CIC Medal is the highest award that the Chemical Institute of Canada confers. Awarded annually since 1951, it is given to "a person who has made an outstanding contribution to the science of chemistry or chemical engineering in Canada".

The medal is presented at the annual Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition or Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, at which the recipient gives a plenary lecture.

The award commemorates the isolation of nickel by Frederik Cronstedt in 1751. The medals were originally sponsored by the International Nickel Company and consisted of 8 ounces (227g) of pure palladium. The sponsorship ended in 2006, since when the medals have been made of silver plated nickel.

Winners Source (recent winners): CIC Date Award WinnerAward Lecture2024Warren Piers 2023Janusz Pawliszyn, University of Waterloo 2022Chao-Jun Li, McGill University 2021Molly Shoichet, University of Waterloo 2020Jonathan Abbatt, University of Toronto 2019Linda Nazar, University of Waterloo 2018 A Journey Into Organic Synthesis: Evolution of Methods and Techniques to Tackle 21st Century Problems2017 Eugenia Kumacheva Nanoparticle Self-assembly Bridging the Gap between Molecules and Nanoparticles2016 Design and Discovery of Enzyme Inhibitors Towards Therapies for Diabetes and Influenza2015 Axel D. Becke Full Circle, A Career in Density-Functional Theory2014 Douglas Stephan From Frustrated Lewis Pairs to Electrophlic Phosphorium Cations: Metal-free Approaches to Hydrogenation Catalysis2013 Mark Lautens Multicomponent-Multicatalytic Reactions (MC)2R 2012 Sponging Off Nature for New Drug Leads 2011 Block Copolymer Vesicles Following Nature's Trail with Bigger Molecules 2010 Approaching Chemistry from First Principle with Density Functional Theory 2009 R. J. Dwayne Miller Making the Molecular Movie: Quest for the Structure-Function Correlation of Biology 2008 The Chemistry and Biology of Getting Drugs from Bugs 2007 Diethard Böhme Gas-Phase Ions and Chemical Mass Spectrometry 2006 Molecular Keystones: Lessons from Bioorganic Reaction Mechanisms2005 Computational Chemistry as a Tool for Mechanistic Investigations: Predicting Rate and Equilibrium Constants 2004 Nanowires and Nanotubes through Block-Copolymer Self-Assembly2003 2002 Experimental Observation of Orbital-Like Behaviour of Valence Electrons: Which Orbital Models are Appropriate For Describing Electron Transfer?2001 Geoffrey Ozin Race for the Photonic Chip2000 1999 Juan Cesar Scaiano Laser Applications in the Study of Organic Reaction Mechanisms1998 Richard J. Puddephatt Bond Activation by Organoplatinum Compounds1997 Howard Alper Catalysis Today: New Opportunities for Tomorrow1996 G. Michael Bancroft Synchrotron Radiation: the Light Source of the Future1995 Studies on Enzymes. A Personal Perspective1994 The Rich Potential of Trispyraxolylborate Ligands1993 Paul Brumer Control of Chemical Reactions Using Lasers1992 The Spectra of Free Radicals1991 The Nature of Photohydration Reactivity1990 Ashok Vijh Excursions in Electrochemical Physics1989 Novel Ions, Molecules and Radicals; Mass Spectrometry's Gifts to Chemistry1988 Stephen Hanessian Man, Machine and Heuristics in Synthesis Planning1987 Multiphoton Spectroscopy1986 Energy Changes of Ionic Reactions in the Gas Phase and Solution - Bridging of the Two Fields1985 One Thing Leads to Another - From Silylcarbinols to Silaethylenes1984 Aspects of the Photochemistry of Cyclic Ketones1983 Camille Sandorfy Chemical Spectroscopy in the Far Ultraviolet1982 Superficial Photochemistry1981 Keith U. Ingold Oxidation and Its. Prevention in Petrochemicals, Food and Living Systems1980 Chemistry and Human Welfare1979 Bernard Belleau The Curse of Opium: Requital through Medicinal Organic Chemistry1978 Some Current Trends in Chemical Kinetics1977 Ronald J. Gillespie Structural Chemistry of the Main Group Elements1976 John C. Polanyi Molecular Motions in Chemical Reactions1975 Brian E. Conway Electrochemical Studies in Surface Science1974 Resonance Raman Spectroscopy1973 The Micro-Rheology of Disperse Systems1972 Gerhard Herzberg Spectra of Simple Free Radicals1971 Keith J. Laidler Adventures in Chemical Kinetics1970 The Kinetics of the Simplest Chemical Reactions1969 Photoelectron Spectroscopy1968 The Unexpected Behavior of Solid Methane at Very Low Temperatures1967 Harold E. Gunning Sulphur Atom Chemistry1966 William-Henry Gauvin High Temperature Research1965 Paul-Antoine Giguère Thirty Years of Peroxide Chemistry1964 Raymond U. Lemieux The Chemical Synthesis of Glycosides1963 Karel Wiesner Ten Years of Studies on Basic Terpenes at the University of New Brunswick1962 Natural Phospholipids - Synthesis and Structure1961 William G. Schneider Problem Electrons1960 Locating Substituents in Cellulose - A Review1959 Richard H. F. Manske Fifty Years with Alkaloids1958 Active Nitrogen1957 Henry G. Thode The Geochemistry of the Sulphur Isotopes1956 Leo Marion The Biogenesis of Alkaloids1955 Current Problems in the Field of the Electrolytes1954 Thirty Years in Petroleum Research1953 E. W. R. Steacie Present Status of Radical Mechanisms for Organic Decompositions1952 Otto Maass Some Underlying Factors Involving the Process of Wood Pulp Production1951 T. Thorvaldson The Training of Chemists for Industry

See also

List of chemistry awards

References