Arthur C. Cope Award
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The Arthur C. Cope Award is a prize awarded for achievement in the field of organic chemistry
Organic chemistry
Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation of carbon-based compounds, hydrocarbons, and their derivatives...

 research. It is generally considered one of the highest honors in the field. It is sponsored by the Arthur C. Cope
Arthur C. Cope
Arthur C. Cope was a highly successful and influential organic chemist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is credited with the development of several important chemical reactions which bear his name including the Cope elimination and the Cope rearrangement.Cope was born on June...

 Fund, and has been awarded since 1973 by the American Chemical Society
American Chemical Society
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Recipients include:
  • 1973 Roald Hoffmann
    Roald Hoffmann
    Roald Hoffmann is an American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He currently teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.-Escape from the Holocaust:...

     and Robert B. Woodward
  • 1974 Donald J. Cram
    Donald J. Cram
    Donald James Cram was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J...

  • 1976 Elias J. Corey
  • 1978 Orville L. Chapman
  • 1980 Gilbert J. Stork
  • 1982 Frank H. Westheimer
  • 1984 Albert J. Eschenmoser
  • 1986 Duilio Arigoni
    Duilio Arigoni
    Duilio Arigoni is a Swiss chemist and Emeritus Professor at ETH Zurich. He has worked on the biosynthetic pathways of many organic natural substances.- Birth and education :...

  • 1987 Ronald Breslow
    Ronald Breslow
    Ronald C. D. Breslow is an American chemist from Rahway, New Jersey. He is currently University Professor at Columbia University, where he is based in the Department of Chemistry and affiliated with the Departments of Biological Sciences and Pharmacology; he has also been on the faculty of its...

  • 1988 Kenneth B. Wiberg
  • 1989 William S. Johnson
    William Summer Johnson
    William Summer Johnson was an American chemist and teacher. From 1940 to 1958, Dr. Johnson was an instructor and then professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 1958, he moved to Stanford University in California where he spent the remainder of his scientific career...

  • 1990 Koji Nakanishi
    Koji Nakanishi
    a bioorganic and natural products chemist, is Centennial Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and former Chairman of the Chemistry Department, Columbia University....

  • 1991 Gerhard L. Closs
  • 1992 K. Barry Sharpless
    K. Barry Sharpless
    Karl Barry Sharpless is an American chemist known for his work on stereoselective reactions.-Early years:Sharpless was born in Philadelphia. He graduated from Friends' Central School in 1959. He continued his studies at Dartmouth College and earned his Ph.D from Stanford University in 1968...

  • 1993 Peter B. Dervan
  • 1994 John D. Roberts
    John D. Roberts
    John Dombrowski Roberts is an American chemist. He has made contributions to the integration of physical chemistry, spectroscopy and organic chemistry for the understanding of chemical reaction rates....

  • 1995 George M. Whitesides
    George M. Whitesides
    George M. Whitesides is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University. He is best known for his work in the areas of NMR spectroscopy, organometallic chemistry, molecular self-assembly, soft lithography, microfabrication, microfluidics, and nanotechnology...

  • 1996 Robert G. Bergman
  • 1997 Ryōji Noyori
    Ryoji Noyori
    is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001. Noyori shared half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second half of the Prize went to K. Barry Sharpless for his study in chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions...

  • 1998 Samuel J. Danishefsky
    Samuel J. Danishefsky
    Samuel J. Danishefsky is an American chemist working as a professor at both Columbia University and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.- Birth and education :...

  • 1999 Ralph F. Hirschmann
    Ralph F. Hirschmann
    Ralph Franz Hirschmann was a German American biochemist who led a team that was responsible for the first organic synthesis of an enzyme, a ribonuclease.-Early life and education:...

  • 2000 David A. Evans
    David A. Evans
    David A. Evans is the Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University...

  • 2001 George A. Olah
  • 2002 Robert H. Grubbs
    Robert H. Grubbs
    Robert Howard Grubbs is an American chemist and Nobel laureate.As he noted in his official Nobel Prize autobiography, "In some places, my birthplace is listed as Calvert City and in others Possum Trot [NB: both in Marshall County]...

  • 2003 Larry E. Overman
    Larry E. Overman
    Larry E. Overman is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. He was born in Chicago in 1943. Overman obtained a B.A. degree from Earlham College in 1965. and he completed his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1969, under Howard...

  • 2004 Barry M. Trost
  • 2005 K.C. Nicolaou
  • 2006 Peter G. Schultz
  • 2007 Jean Fréchet
    Jean Frechet
    Professor Jean M.J. Fréchet is the Henry Rapoport Chair of Organic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley...

  • 2008 J. Fraser Stoddart
  • 2009 Manfred T. Reetz
  • 2010 Kendall N. Houk
  • 2011 Nicholas Turro
    Nicholas Turro
    Nicholas J. Turro is an American chemist, Wm. P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. He is the recipient of the 2011 Arthur C...

  • 2012 Chi-Huey Wong
    Chi-Huey Wong
    Chi-Huey Wong is a Taiwanese-born biochemist and professor of chemistry and chemical biology at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. His expertise is bioorganic chemistry, especially in carbohydrate biochemistry and chemical proteomics...

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