NESACS - The Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society

1987	F. Sherwood Rowland, University of California at Irvine, and Mario J. Molina, now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discovery of the Influence of Chlorofluorocarbons on the Ozone Layer.
1988	Alfred P. Wolf and Joanna S. Fowler, Brookhaven National Laboratories, Chemical Procedures to Make Positron Emission Tomography a Practical Method in Medical Diagnosis.
1989	Carl Djerassi, Stanford University. Synthesis and Promotion of the First and Most Common Birth Control Hormone.
1990	Thomas J. Dougherty, Roswell Park Cancer Institute. The Development of Photodynamic Therapy for the Treatment of Malignant Disease.
1991	Jerrold Meinwald and Thomas Eisner, Cornell University. Chemical Responses in the Insect and Plant World.
1992	Bruce N. Ames, University of California at Berkeley. Methods for Detection of Carcinogens and Causes of Aging and Cancer.
1993	James G. Anderson, Harvard University. Experimental Methods for Measuring Global Ozone Loss.
1994	Kary B. Mullis. The Discovery of Polymerase Chain Reactions (PCR) for the Replication of DNA Molecules.
1995	Howard J. Schaeffer, Burroughs Wellcome Company. Nucleosides with Antiviral Activity - The Discovery of Acyclovir (Zovirax®).
1996	Roy G. Gordon, Harvard University. Low Emissivity Glass; Energy Conserving Windows.
1997	Rangaswamy Srinivasan, UVTech Associates. The Widely Used Laser Methodology of Tiny Focused Ablative Photodecomposition.
1998	Kyriacos C. Nicolaou, Scripps Research Institute. Chemical Synthesis and Chemical Biology of Natural Substances.
1999	Robert S. Langer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Development of Unique Polymers for Medical Applications.
2000	William A. Pryor, Louisiana State University. Vitamin E and the Prevention of Heart Disease.
2001	Joseph M. DeSimone, University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University. Green Chemistry for Sustainable Economic Development.
2002	Ronald Breslow, Columbia University. Chemistry Lessons from Biology and vice versa.
2003	Bruce D. Roth, Pfizer Global Research & Development. The Discovery and Development of Lipitor® (Atorvastatin Calcium).
2004	James W. Jorgenson, University of North Carolina. The Magic of Capillaries in Chemical Separations and Analysis.
2005	Jean M. J. Fréchet, University of California at Berkeley, Functional Macromolecules: From Design and Synthesis to Applications. [Bio]
2006	Richard D. DiMarchi, University of Indiana, Chemical Biotechnology as a Means to Optimal Protein Therapeutics. [Bio]
2007	Michael A. Marletta, University of California at Berkeley, Nitric Oxide in Biology: From Discovery to Therapeutics. [Bio]
2008	John A. Katzenellenbogen, Swanlund Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chapaign-Urbana, Estrogens and Estrogen receptors as a Nexus of Chemistry and Biology in Health and Disease. [Bio]
2009	Chad A. Mirkin, Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology, George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Professor of Medicine and Professor of Materials Science and EngineeringNorthwestern University [Bio][his website]
2010	Stephen L. Buchwald, Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, MIT, Palladium- and Copper-Catalyzed Processes for the Synthesis of Pharmaceutically-Relevant Molecules [Bio]