North Jersey Section of the ACS

[ 2009 Registration & Details | 2007 Retrospective ]

The award was established in September 1944 by the North Jersey Section of the American Chemical Society and has been sponsored by the Union Carbide Corporation, a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company. It consists of a gold plated medal and $5,000. It is conferred biennially upon an American chemist under 40 years of age in recognition of accomplishments in pure or industrial chemistry, as characterized by the initiative, creativeness, leadership, and perseverance of the individual and indicated by published or unpublished evidence. The award was established to commemorate the technical and industrial achievements of Baekeland and to encourage younger chemists to emulate his example. The Award is now presented as part of a symposium with other speakers. The result is an excellent symposium that allows industrial scientists, academics and students to come together and enjoy both cutting edge science and an opportunity to interact with leading scientists. (See Past Winners)

Leo Hendrik Baekeland medal - click to enlarge

The 2009 Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award
will be presented at a Symposium & Banquet
on November 13, 2009, to

Professor Colin Nuckolls
Professor Colin Nuckolls

Biological Chemistry Research Group
Department of Chemistry
Columbia University

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Past Winners of the Baekeland Award

Year Awarded To Institution
2009
2007
2005
2003
2002

1999
1997
1995
1993
1991

1989
1987
1985
1983
1981

1979
1977
1975
1973
1971

1969
1967
1965
1963
1961

1959
1957
1955
1953
1951

1949
1947
1945

Colin Nuckolls
John Rogers
Younan Xia
John Hartwig
Chad Mirkin

Eric N. Jacobsen
James A. Cowan
Charles M. Lieber
Stuart Lee Schreiber
Jacqueline K. Barton

David A. Dixon
Ben S. Freiser
Alexander Pines
Henry F. Schaeffer III
Barry M. Trost

Roy G. Gordon
Angelo A. Lamola
Christopher S. Foote
Willis H. Flygare
Stuart Alan Rice

Ronald Breslow
George A. Olah
Eugene Van Tamelen
F. Albert Cotton
Gilbert Stork

Carl Djerassi
Bruno Hasbrouck Zimm
Robert Burns Woodward
Leo Brewer
Lewis Hastings Sarett

Eugene G. Rochow
Paul John Flory
Edwin Richard Gilliland


Columbia University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Washington
Yale University
Northwestern University

Harvard University
Ohio State University
Harvard University
Harvard University
California Institute of Technology

E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.
Purdue University
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
University of Wisconsin

Harvard University
Bell Laboratories
University of California, Berkeley
University of Illinois
University of Chicago

Columbia University
Western Reserve University
Stanford University
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
Columbia University

Wayne University
General Electric Company
Harvard University
University of California
Merck and Co. Inc.

Harvard University
Cornell University
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology