The Ralph and Helen Oesper Award or Oesper Award was first given in 1981 by the University of Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society. The award recognizes "outstanding chemists for lifetime significant accomplishments in the field of chemistry with long-lasting impact on the chemical sciences". It was established with a bequest from Ralph E. Oesper and his wife, Helen Wilson Oesper.
Awardees 2025, Melanie S. Sanford, University of Michigan 2021, James M. Tour, Rice University 2020, Nicholas A. Peppas, University of Texas at Austin 2019, R. Mark Wightman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2018, Devarajan (Dave) Thirumalai, University of Texas at Austin 2017, Matthew Platz, Ohio State University, 2016, Maurice Brookhart, University of Houston and University of North Carolina 2015, Karen L. Wooley, Texas A&M University 2014, Isiah M. Warner, Louisiana State University 2013, Richard Eisenberg, University of Rochester 2012, Gary M. Hieftje, Indiana University 2011, Charles P. Casey, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2010, Kurt Wüthrich, The Scripps Research Institute, (Nobel, 2002) 2009, Susan Lindquist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2008, Alan G. Marshall, Florida State University 2007, James P. Collman, Stanford University 2006, Richard N. Zare, Stanford University 2005, V. Adrian Parsegian, National Institutes of Health 2004, George M. Whitesides, Harvard University 2003, Alan G. MacDiarmid, University of Pennsylvania and University of Texas at Dallas (Nobel, 2000) 2002, Royce W. Murray, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2001, Harry B. Gray, California Institute of Technology 2000, Mildred Cohn, University of Pennsylvania 1999, George S. Hammond, Bowling Green State University 1998, Jerome A. Berson, Yale University 1997, Rudolph A. Marcus, California Institute of Technology, (Nobel, 1992) 1996, Ralph N. Adams, University of Kansas 1995, Gregory R. Choppin, Florida State University 1994, Klaus Biemann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1993, James D. Winefordner, University of Florida 1992, Walter H. Stockmayer, Dartmouth College 1991, Derek H. R. Barton, Texas A&M University (Nobel, 1969) 1990, Herbert C. Brown, Purdue University, (Nobel, 1979) 1989, Allen J. Bard, University of Texas at Austin 1988, Konrad E. Bloch, Harvard University and Florida State University (Nobel, 1964; Medicine) 1987, George C. Pimentel, University of California, Berkeley 1986, Henry Taube, Stanford University (Nobel, 1983) 1985, Fred McLafferty, Cornell University 1984, John A. Pople, Carnegie Mellon University (Nobel, 1998) 1983, Fred Basolo, Northwestern University 1982, John C. Sheehan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1981, Melvin Calvin, University of California, Berkeley (Nobel, 1961)
See also List of chemistry awards
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