The Patterson–Crane Award, previously the Austin M. Patterson Award, is an award for contributions to chemical information and is sponsored by the Columbus and Dayton sections of the American Chemical Society. The Austin M. Patterson award was established in 1949 and its first recipient was Austin M. Patterson, in recognition of his work on chemical nomenclature and as editor of Chemical Abstracts. In 1975 the award was renamed to commemorate also Evan J. Crane, who edited Chemical Abstracts 1915–1958, and who had received the award in 1953. The Patterson-Crane Award acknowledges “meritorious contributions in the field of chemical literature and especially in the documentation of chemistry.” The award, which, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, was presented in odd-numbered years, consists of a personalized commendation and an honorarium of $3,000. An international honor, the Patterson-Crane Award acknowledges outstanding contributions to the field of chemical information science, including the design, development, production or management of chemical information systems or services; electronic access to and retrieval of chemical information; critically evaluated data compilations; information technology applications in chemistry; or other significant chemical documentation, including production of original works, editorial works, or chemical library work. Past recipients of this international award have included research chemists who made major contributions to the information aspects of their specialties, as well as scientists who devoted full time to information activities and their management.
Winners of the award Source: American Chemical Society Archived 2015-01-14 at the Wayback Machine
1949 – Austin M. Patterson 1951 – Arthur B. Lamb 1953 – Evan J. Crane 1955 – Howard S. Nutting 1957 – Melvin G. Mellon 1959 – Leonard T. Capell 1961 – G. Malcolm Dyson 1963 – W. Albert Noyes Jr. 1965 – Elmer Hockett 1967 – Melville L. Wolfrom 1969 – Herman Skolnik 1971 – Charles D. Hurd 1973 – Pieter E. Verkade 1975 – William J. Wiswesser 1977 – Benjamin H. Weil 1979 – Dale B. Baker 1981 – W. Conard Fernelius 1983 – Eugene Garfield 1985 – Bruno J. Zwolinski 1987 – Kurt L. Loening 1989 – George E. Vladutz 1991 – David R. Lide, Jr. 1993 – Hideaki Chihara 1995 – Arthur E. Martell 1997 – Derek Horton 1999 – Stephen E. Stein 2001 – Gerard P. Moss 2003 – Robert J. Massie 2005 – Gilles Klopman 2007 – Gary D. Wiggins 2010 – Peter Willett 2015 – Stephen Heller 2018 – Paul Weiss
See also List of computer science awards List of chemistry awards List of prizes named after people
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