M. Frederick Hawthorne, who directs the International Institute of Nano & Molecular Medicine at the University of Missouri, Columbia, has been awarded the 2009 Priestley Medal, the highest honor from the world's largest scientific society, the American Chemical Society and often the high-point of careers that include even the Nobel Prize.In receiving the annual award, which recognizes distinguished service to the field of chemistry, Hawthorne joins the pantheon of the world's top chemists, including numerous Nobel laureates such as Linus Pauling, Roald Hoffmann, George Olah, and Peter Debye -- many of whom won the Priestley Medal only after they won the Nobel Prize.
"I'm tickled to death to receive this recognition," Hawthorne, 79, told the Chemical and Engineering News. "I am very lucky to have been at the right place at the right time to begin work on clarifying the chemistry of boron, one of the most versatile elements."
The medal is named for the British chemist Joseph Priestley, who discovered oxygen in 1774 and, according to the American Chemistry Society, "answered the age-old questions of why and how things burn. An Englishman by birth, Priestley was deeply involved in politics and religion, as well as science. He emigrated to America when his vocal support for the American and French revolutions made remaining in his homeland untenable."
Hawthorne is considered a giant in the field of "inorganic chemistry," or the chemistry of substances that do not contain carbon.
"Fred has expressed his creativity over and over again in chemistry," J. Fraser Stoddart, a former UCLA colleague who is now at Northwestern University, told Chemical and Engineering News. "To many scientists the world over, he has become Mr. Inorganic Chemistry, a legend in his own lifetime."
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The medal is named for the British chemist Joseph Priestley, who discovered oxygen in 1774 and, according to the American Chemistry Society, "answered the age-old questions of why and how things burn. An Englishman by birth, Priestley was deeply involved in politics and religion, as well as science. He emigrated to America when his vocal support for the American and French revolutions made remaining in his homeland untenable."
Hawthorne is considered a giant in the field of "inorganic chemistry," or the chemistry of substances that do not contain carbon.
"Fred has expressed his creativity over and over again in chemistry," J. Fraser Stoddart, a former UCLA colleague who is now at Northwestern University, told Chemical and Engineering News. "To many scientists the world over, he has become Mr. Inorganic Chemistry, a legend in his own lifetime."
RELATED:
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/86/i25/8625notw1.html
http://nanomed.missouri.edu/
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