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The Esselen Award for Chemistry in
the public interest is one of the most prestigious honors provided
by the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society.
The award annually recognizes a chemist whose scientific and
technical work has contributed to the public well-being, and
has thereby communicated positive values of the chemical profession.
The Awardee should be a living resident of the United States
or Canada at the time of nomination, and the significance of
this work should have become apparent within the five years preceding
nomination.
The Award was established in 1987 to honor the memory of
Gustavus John Esselen, a distinguished member of the Northeastern
Section.
A brief history of the Award as well as a biography of Esselen
can be accessed from this web page.The first awardees were
F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario J. Molina, who subsequently
received
the Nobel Prize. As can be seen by the list of past recipients,
any field of chemistry is valid as long as the scientific
work has clearly contributed to the public well-being and
its value
to society has become apparent within the last five years.
The award consists of a medal and a check for $5,000. Travel
expenses incidental to the conferring of this award will
be reimbursed. The award will usually be held in Cambridge,
Massachusetts at
the April meeting of the Northeastern Section. The Awardee
will deliver an address on the subject of the work for
which the honor
is being conferred, or for work in progress which is also
directed to chemistry in the public interest.
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Northeastern Section
of the American Chemical Society Selects
Stephen L. Buchwald as Their 2010 Esselen
Awardee
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| BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stephen L. Buchwald,
Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
has been selected to receive the 2010 Gustavus
J. Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public
Interest from the Northeastern Section of the
American Chemical Society (NESACS). |
| The Esselen Award is presented annually to
recognize and reward a U.S. or Canadian chemist
whose scientific and technical work has contributed
to the public well being and has thereby communicated
positive values of the chemical profession.
Professor Buchwald’s selection recognizes
his major impact on medicinal chemistry, due
to his development of palladium and copper
catalyzed processes to form carbon-nitrogen
and carbon-oxygen bonds. These catalysts are
used daily by the discovery groups of nearly
every major pharmaceutical company worldwide.
His catalysts have enabled the synthesis of
novel promising small molecule drugs targeting
a very wide range of diseases. His catalysts
have also been instrumental in developing novel
organic semiconductors and a wide range of
other non-medicinal chemical syntheses. Professor
Buchwald joined the MIT Department of Chemistry
in 1984 as an assistant professor after post-doctoral
work at the California Institute of Technology.
He earned a BS in chemistry at Brown University
in 1977, and an AM (1980) and a PhD (1982)
in chemistry from Harvard University. He has
previously received the ACS Award in Organometallic
Chemistry in 2000 and the ACS Award for Creative
Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry in 2006. |
| Professor Buchwald will receive the Esselen
Award medal and a $5000 prize at the Esselen
award dinner and lecture at Harvard University
on Thursday, April 8, 2010. |
| The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit
organization chartered by the U.S. Congress.
With more than 154,000 members, ACS is the
world’s largest scientific society and
a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related
research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed
journals and scientific conferences. Its main
offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus,
Ohio. |
| The Northeastern Section
of the American Chemical Society, which has
nearly 7000 members, sponsors a number of awards,
travel grants and scholarships to honor professional
chemists. NESACS holds more than ten meetings
per year, open to the public, around the Boston
area. More information can be found at our
website, www.nesacs.org. For press inquiries
about NESACS, contact Leland L. Johnson, Jr.,
chair of Public Relations, at ljohnson@creagenbio.com,
public.relations@nesacs.org, or +1.617.304.6474. |
| For further information
about the Esselen Award contact C.E. Kolb,
chair of the 2010 Esselen Award Committee,
atkolb@aerodyne.com or +1.978.663.9500, ext.
290. |
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Call for Nominations |
2011 Gustavus
John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public
Interest |
| The Northeastern Section (NESACS)
is inviting nominations for its prestigious Gustavus
John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest. This
award is given annually to a chemical scientist,
whose scientific and technical work has contributed
to the public well-being and has thereby communicated
the positive values of the chemical profession. The
significance of this work should have become apparent
within the five years preceding nomination. The
awardee shall be a living resident of the United
States or Canada at the time of the nomination. |
| There is no limitation to the
field of chemistry. This award differs from
other ACS awards because the selection committee
focuses on the general public recognition of the
workbut also considersits scientific/technical significance. |
| The Award consists of a bronze
medal and the sum of $5,000. Travel expenses
incidental to the conferring of the award will be
reimbursed. The award will be presented at
the April 2011 meeting of the Section. The
Awardee is expected to deliver an address related
to the work for which the honor is conferred, but
it should be oriented toward why it is in the public
interest and for an audience with limited knowledge
of the specific field. |
| Nominations should be submitted
as a single pdf file including: 1) a letter signed
by the primary sponsor with a description of how
the nominee’s work has been recognized as making
a major contribution to the public welfare and as
communicating positive values of the chemical profession,
plus the names of two co-sponsors; 2) short supporting
co-sponsor statements; 3) the nominee’s professional
biography including a list of no more than ten of
the nominee’s publications selected for their
pertinence to the work nominated for recognition;
and 4) copies of popular and technical press news
or feature articles indicative of public benefit
and interest. Further information is available
at www.nesacs.org. |
Nominations
Are Due October 15, 2010 to obermayer@alum.mit.edu with
cc: to piper281@verizon.net. Award
recipients will be notified by February 1, 2011.
Inquiries may be directed
to the above or to Dr. Arthur Obermayer, Tel. (617)244-0180
or Karen Piper, Tel. (978) 456-8622. Address:
19 Mill Rd., Harvard, MA 01451. |
| Click here to download flyer
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