Linus Pauling Award

Not to be confused with the Linus Pauling Award of the Institute for Functional Medicine.

The Linus Pauling Award is an award recognizing outstanding achievement in chemistry. It is awarded annually by the Puget Sound, Oregon, and Portland sections of the American Chemical Society, and is named after the US chemist Linus Pauling (1901–1994), to whom it was first awarded in 1966.

Another Linus Pauling Award is given annually by the Chemistry Department at Buffalo State College.^[1]

Oregon Laureates

Source: ACS

• 1966 – Linus Pauling
• 1967 – Manfred Eigen
• 1968 – Herbert C. Brown
• 1969 – Henry Eyring
• 1970 – Harold C. Urey
• 1971 – Gerhard Herzberg
• 1972 – E. Bright Wilson
• 1973 – E. J. Corey
• 1974 – Roald Hoffmann
• 1975 – Paul Doughty Bartlett
• 1976 – F. Albert Cotton
• 1977 – John A. Pople
• 1978 – Dudley Herschbach
• 1979 – Daniel E. Koshland
• 1980 – John D. Roberts
• 1981 – Henry Taube
• 1982 – George C. Pimentel
• 1983 – Gilbert Stork
• 1984 – John S. Waugh
• 1985 – Harold A. Scheraga
• 1986 – Harry B. Gray
• 1987 – Harden M. McConnell
• 1988 – Keith Ingold
• 1989 – Neil Bartlett
• 1990 – James P. Collman
• 1991 – Rudolph Marcus
• 1992 – Kenneth B. Wiberg
• 1993 – Richard N. Zare
• 1994 – James A. Ibers
• 1995 – Alexander Rich
• 1996 – Kyriacos C. Nicolaou
• 1997 – Ahmed H. Zewail
• 1998 – Allen J. Bard
• 1999 – Peter B. Dervan
• 2000 – Gabor A. Somorjai
• 2001 – Tobin J. Marks
• 2002 – John I. Brauman
• 2003 – Robert H. Grubbs
• 2004 – Martin Karplus
• 2005 – George Whitesides
• 2006 – Peter J. Stang
• 2007 – Jacqueline K. Barton
• 2008 – Thomas C. Bruice
• 2009 – Stephen J. Lippard
• 2010 – Armand Paul Alivisatos
• 2011 – Larry R. Dalton
• 2012 – Robert Cava
• 2013 – Chad Mirkin
• 2014 – Stephen Buchwald
• 2015 – Barry M. Trost
• 2016 – Timothy M. Swager
• 2017 – Christopher C. Cummins
• 2018 – Geraldine Richmond
• 2019 – Catherine Murphy
• 2020 – Paul Chirik
• 2021 – No Medal Awarded (COVID)
• 2022 – Cynthia J. Burrows
• 2023 – Laura Gagliardi
• 2024 – Younan Xia
• 2025 – Joseph S. Francisco

See also

• List of chemistry awards