The Chemical Industry Medal is an annual American award given to an industrial chemist by the Society of Chemical Industry America (SCI America). The medal has been awarded since 1933, when it replaced the Grasselli Medal. It was initially given to "a person making a valuable application of chemical research to industry. Primary consideration shall be given to applications in the public interest." As of 1945, the criterion became "a person who ... has rendered conspicuous service to applied chemistry." More recently it has been awarded "for contributions toward the growth of the chemical industry."
Recipients Source: SCI Chemical Industry Medal Past Winners 1933 James G. Vail, Philadelphia Quartz Company 1934 Floyd G. Metzger, Air Reduction 1935 Edward R. Weidlein, Mellon Institute 1936 Walter S. Landis, American Cyanamid 1937 Evan J. Crane, Chemical Abstracts 1938 John V. N. Dorr, Dorr 1939 Robert E. Wilson, Standard Oil of Indiana, PanAmerican Petroleum 1941 Elmer K. Bolton, Dupont 1942 Harrison Howe, ACS 1943 John Grebe, Dow 1944 Bradley Dewey, Dewey & Almy 1945 Sidney Dale Kirkpatrick, Chemical & Metallurgical 1946 Willard H. Dow, Dow Chemical 1947 George W. Merck, Merck 1948 James A. Rafferty, Union Carbide 1949 William B. Bell, American Cyanamid 1950 William M. Rand, Monsanto 1951 Ernest W. Reid, Corn Products 1952 J. R. Donald, Crawford H. Greenewalt, Dupont 1953 Charles S. Munson, Air Reduction 1954 Ernest H. Volwiler, Abbot 1955 Joseph George Davidson, Union Carbide 1956 Robert Lindley Murray, Hooker Electrochemical 1957 Clifford Rassweiler, Johns Manville 1958 Fred J. Emmerich, Allied 1959 Harry B. Mcclure, Union Carbide 1960 Hans Stauffer, Stauffer 1961 William Edward Hanford, Olin Mathieson 1962 Kenneth H. Klipstein, American Cyanamid 1963 Max Tishler, Merck 1964 Leland I. Doan, Dow 1965 Ralph Connor, Rohm and Haas 1966 Monroe E. Spaght, Shell 1967 Chester M. Brown, Allied 1968 Harold W. Fisher, Standard Oil of New Jersey 1969 Charles B. McCoy, Dupont 1970 William H. Lycan, Johnson & Johnson 1971 Carroll A. Hochwalt, Thomas & Hochwalt, Monsanto 1972 Jesse Werner, Gaf 1973 Ralph Landau, Scientific Design 1974 Carl Gerstacker, Dow 1975 Leonard P. Pool, Air Products & Chemicals 1976 Harold E. Thayer, Mallinckrodt 1977 F. Perry Wilson, Union Carbide 1978 Jack B. St. Clair, Shell 1979 Irving S. Shapiro, Dupont 1980 Edward Donley, Air Products 1981 Thomas W. Mastin, Lubrizol 1982 H. Barclay Morley, Stauffer 1983 Paul Oreffice, Dow 1984 James Affleck, American Cyanamid 1985 Louis Fernandez, Monsanto 1986 Edward G. Jefferson, Dupont 1987 Edwin C. Holmer, Exxon 1988 Vincent L. Gregory Jr., Rohm and Haas 1989 Richard E. Heckert, Dupont 1990 George J. Sella Jr., American Cyanamid 1991 Dexter F. Baker, Air Products 1992 H. Eugene McBrayer, Exxon 1993 W. H. Clark, Nalco 1994 Keith R. McKennon, Dow Corning 1995 Robert D. Kennedy, Union Carbide 1996 John W. Johnstone Jr., Olin 1997 J. Roger Hirl, Occidental Chemical 1998 Edgar S. Woolard, Jr., Dupont 1999 J. Lawrence Wilson, Rohm and Haas 2000 Vincent A. Calarco, Crompton 2001 William S. Stavropoulos, Dow Chemical 2002 Earnest W. Deavenport Jr., Eastman Chemical 2003 Whitson Sadler, Solvay 2004 Thomas E. Reilly, Reilly Industries 2005 Daniel S. Sanders, ExxonMobil & Company 2006 Jon Huntsman, Sr., Huntsman Corporation 2007 Raj Gupta, Rohm and Haas 2008 Dennis H. Reilley, Praxair 2009 Jeffrey M. Lipton, Nova Chemicals 2010 Michael E. Campbell, Arch Chemicals, Inc 2011 J. Brian Ferguson, Eastman Chemical 2012 David N. Weidman, Celanese 2013 Andrew Liveris, Dow Chemical 2014 Sunil Kumar, International Speciality Products 2015 Stephen D. Pryor, President of ExxonMobil Chemical 2016 James L. Gallogly, LyondellBasell 2017 Andreas C. Kramvis, Honeywell 2018, Cal Dooley, American Chemistry Council 2019, Neil A. Chapman, Exxon Mobil Corporation 2020, Christopher D. Pappas, Trinseo 2021, Craig Rogerson, Hexion 2022, Mark Vergnano, Chemours 2023, Bhavesh (Bob) Patel, W.R. Grace & Co. 2024, John J. Paro, Hallstar 2025, Albert Chao and James Chao, Westlake Corporation 2026, Karen T. McKee, Exxon Mobil Corporation
See also List of chemistry awards
External links SCI Chemical Industry Medal Past Winners Society of Chemical Industry
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