| Date |
Award Winner |
Award Lecture |
|---|
| 2024 |
Warren Piers |
| 2023 |
Janusz Pawliszyn, University of Waterloo |
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| 2022 |
Chao-Jun Li, McGill University | |
| 2021 |
Molly Shoichet, University of Waterloo | |
| 2020 |
Jonathan Abbatt, University of Toronto | |
| 2019 |
Linda Nazar, University of Waterloo | |
| 2018 | André Charette [Wikidata] | A Journey Into Organic Synthesis: Evolution of Methods and Techniques to Tackle 21st Century Problems |
| 2017 | Eugenia Kumacheva | Nanoparticle Self-assembly Bridging the Gap between Molecules and Nanoparticles |
| 2016 | Stephen G. Withers [Wikidata] | Design and Discovery of Enzyme Inhibitors Towards Therapies for Diabetes and Influenza |
| 2015 | Axel D. Becke | Full Circle, A Career in Density-Functional Theory |
| 2014 | Douglas Stephan | From Frustrated Lewis Pairs to Electrophlic Phosphorium Cations: Metal-free Approaches to Hydrogenation Catalysis |
| 2013 | Mark Lautens | Multicomponent-Multicatalytic Reactions (MC)2R |
| 2012 | Raymond Andersen [Wikidata] | Sponging Off Nature for New Drug Leads |
| 2011 | Adi Eisenberg [Wikidata] | Block Copolymer Vesicles Following Nature's Trail with Bigger Molecules |
| 2010 | Tom Ziegler [de] | 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 | John Vederas [Wikidata] | The Chemistry and Biology of Getting Drugs from Bugs |
| 2007 | Diethard Böhme | Gas-Phase Ions and Chemical Mass Spectrometry |
| 2006 | Ronald Kluger [Wikidata] | Molecular Keystones: Lessons from Bioorganic Reaction Mechanisms |
| 2005 | Peter J. Guthrie [Wikidata] | Computational Chemistry as a Tool for Mechanistic Investigations: Predicting Rate and Equilibrium Constants |
| 2004 | Mitchell A. Winnik [Wikidata] | Nanowires and Nanotubes through Block-Copolymer Self-Assembly |
| 2003 | Raymond E. Kapral [Wikidata] | |
| 2002 | Chris E. Brion [Wikidata] | 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 Chip |
| 2000 | Brian R. James [Wikidata] | |
| 1999 | Juan Cesar Scaiano | Laser Applications in the Study of Organic Reaction Mechanisms |
| 1998 | Richard J. Puddephatt | Bond Activation by Organoplatinum Compounds |
| 1997 | Howard Alper | Catalysis Today: New Opportunities for Tomorrow |
| 1996 | G. Michael Bancroft | Synchrotron Radiation: the Light Source of the Future |
| 1995 | J. Bryan Jones [Wikidata] | Studies on Enzymes. A Personal Perspective |
| 1994 | William A. G. Graham [Wikidata] | The Rich Potential of Trispyraxolylborate Ligands |
| 1993 | Paul Brumer | Control of Chemical Reactions Using Lasers |
| 1992 | Donald Allan Ramsay [ru] | The Spectra of Free Radicals |
| 1991 | Keith C. Yates [Wikidata] | The Nature of Photohydration Reactivity |
| 1990 | Ashok Vijh | Excursions in Electrochemical Physics |
| 1989 | John L. Holmes [Wikidata] | Novel Ions, Molecules and Radicals; Mass Spectrometry's Gifts to Chemistry |
| 1988 | Stephen Hanessian | Man, Machine and Heuristics in Synthesis Planning |
| 1987 | John C. D. Brand [Wikidata] | Multiphoton Spectroscopy |
| 1986 | Paul Kebarle [Wikidata] | Energy Changes of Ionic Reactions in the Gas Phase and Solution - Bridging of the Two Fields |
| 1985 | Adrian G. Brook [Wikidata] | One Thing Leads to Another - From Silylcarbinols to Silaethylenes |
| 1984 | Peter Yates [Wikidata] | Aspects of the Photochemistry of Cyclic Ketones |
| 1983 | Camille Sandorfy | Chemical Spectroscopy in the Far Ultraviolet |
| 1982 | P. de Mayo [Wikidata] | Superficial Photochemistry |
| 1981 | Keith U. Ingold | Oxidation and Its. Prevention in Petrochemicals, Food and Living Systems |
| 1980 | W. Howard Rapson [Wikidata] | Chemistry and Human Welfare |
| 1979 | Bernard Belleau | The Curse of Opium: Requital through Medicinal Organic Chemistry |
| 1978 | R. J. Cvetanović [Wikidata] | Some Current Trends in Chemical Kinetics |
| 1977 | Ronald J. Gillespie | Structural Chemistry of the Main Group Elements |
| 1976 | John C. Polanyi | Molecular Motions in Chemical Reactions |
| 1975 | Brian E. Conway | Electrochemical Studies in Surface Science |
| 1974 | Harold J. Bernstein [Wikidata] | Resonance Raman Spectroscopy |
| 1973 | Stanley Mason [fr; it] | The Micro-Rheology of Disperse Systems |
| 1972 | Gerhard Herzberg | Spectra of Simple Free Radicals |
| 1971 | Keith J. Laidler | Adventures in Chemical Kinetics |
| 1970 | Donald J. Le Roy [Wikidata] | The Kinetics of the Simplest Chemical Reactions |
| 1969 | Charles A. McDowell [Wikidata] | Photoelectron Spectroscopy |
| 1968 | James A. Morrison [Wikidata] | The Unexpected Behavior of Solid Methane at Very Low Temperatures |
| 1967 | Harold E. Gunning | Sulphur Atom Chemistry |
| 1966 | William-Henry Gauvin | High Temperature Research |
| 1965 | Paul-Antoine Giguère | Thirty Years of Peroxide Chemistry |
| 1964 | Raymond U. Lemieux | The Chemical Synthesis of Glycosides |
| 1963 | Karel Wiesner | Ten Years of Studies on Basic Terpenes at the University of New Brunswick |
| 1962 | Erich Baer [de] | Natural Phospholipids - Synthesis and Structure |
| 1961 | William G. Schneider | Problem Electrons |
| 1960 | C. B. Purves [Wikidata] | Locating Substituents in Cellulose - A Review |
| 1959 | Richard H. F. Manske [Wikidata] | Fifty Years with Alkaloids |
| 1958 | Carl A. Winkler [Wikidata] | Active Nitrogen |
| 1957 | Henry G. Thode | The Geochemistry of the Sulphur Isotopes |
| 1956 | Leo Marion | The Biogenesis of Alkaloids |
| 1955 | Alvin R. Gordon [Wikidata] | Current Problems in the Field of the Electrolytes |
| 1954 | R. K. Stratford [Wikidata] | Thirty Years in Petroleum Research |
| 1953 | E. W. R. Steacie | Present Status of Radical Mechanisms for Organic Decompositions |
| 1952 | Otto Maass | Some Underlying Factors Involving the Process of Wood Pulp Production |
| 1951 | T. Thorvaldson | The Training of Chemists for Industry |
