Chemical Pioneer Award

The Chemical Pioneer Award, established in 1966, is awarded by the American Institute of Chemists to recognize chemists or chemical engineers who have made outstanding contributions to advances in chemistry or the chemical profession.

Recent recipients
Source: AIC
 * 2022 Alison Butler, Chi-Huey Wong
 * 2021 Benjamin Cravatt, Veronica Vaida, Jonathan L. Sessler
 * 2020 No award
 * 2019 William H. Starnes, Jr., Peng Chen, Richard B. Kaner


 * 2018  Kenneth S. Suslick (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Vicki H. Grassian (UC San Diego); Mercouri Kanatzidis (Northwestern University)
 * 2017  Paul A. Craig (Rochester Institute of Technology); Jeffrey W. Kelly (Scripps Research Institute); Marek W. Urban (Clemson University)
 * 2016 	Rebecca L. Cann (University of Hawaii at Manoa) ; Donna Blackmond (The Scripps Research Institute); Michael Wasielewski (Northwestern University)
 * 2015  No award
 * 2014  Anthony Cheetham (University of Cambridge, England) ; Ann M. Valentine (Temple University) ; Robert Langer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
 * 2013  Henry F. Schaefer, III (University of Georgia) ; Thomas R. Tritton (Chemical Heritage Foundation)
 * 2012  Robert Lochhead ; Helen Free
 * 2011  James Christner
 * 2010  Sossina M. Haile (Caltech)
 * 2009  Keith Carron (University of Wyoming) ; Debashis Mukherjee (IACS)
 * 2008  E. Gerald Meyer (University of Wyoming) ; Barnaby Munson (University of Delaware)
 * 2007  Magid Abou-Gharbia ; Dennis Y-M Lo ; Alan G. Marshall (Florida State University)
 * 2006  Glenn Crosby ; David Devraj Kumar (Florida Atlantic University)
 * 2005  Bassam Shakhashiri ; Steven L. Suib ; C.N.R. Rao
 * 2004  Keki H. Gharda ; Eric Jacobsen ; Michael Pirrung
 * 2002  Gerard Jaouen ; Julius Rebek
 * 2000  Richard A. Adams ; Robert G. Bergman ; Larry Dahl ; Wilfried Mortier ; Kenner Rice

Selected earlier recipients

 * 1999  No award
 * 1998  John E. Bercaw ; Stephen J. Benkovic ; Albert Meyers
 * 1997  Jerrold Meinwald
 * 1996  K.C. Nicolaou ; Fred McLafferty
 * 1995  Gabor Somorjai ; Owen Webster
 * 1994  Norman L. Allinger ; M. Frederick Hawthorne ; John D. Roberts
 * 1993  Derek H. R. Barton ; Bruce Merrifield ; George Andrew Olah
 * 1992  Gilbert Stork ; Fred Basolo ; Ralph F. Hirschmann
 * 1991  Michel Boudart ; Edith M. Flanigen ; Herbert S. Gutowsky ; Jack Halpern
 * 1990  Michael J. S. Dewar
 * 1989  Herman S. Bloch ; Harry R. Allcock ; David R. Bryant
 * 1988  K. Barry Sharpless; John H. Sinfelt
 * 1987  Herbert S. Eleuterio
 * 1986  Howard Zimmerman
 * 1985  Otto Vogl
 * 1984  Alan MacDiarmid ; Isabella Karle
 * 1983  Harry G. Drickamer; William S. Knowles ; Barry M. Trost
 * 1981  Elias James Corey
 * 1980  Paul H. Emmett ; Stephanie Kwolek
 * 1979  Paul Harteck ; Barnett Rosenberg ; Leo Sternbach ; Alejandro Zaffaroni
 * 1977  Donald F. Othmer
 * 1976  Edwin T. Mertz
 * 1975  Herbert C. Brown ; Rachel Fuller Brown ; Elizabeth Lee Hazen ; Linus C. Pauling
 * 1973  Melvin A. Cook ; Paul J. Flory ; Carl Djerassi
 * 1972  Herman Francis Mark ; Lewis Sarett
 * 1970  Tracy Hall ; William J. Sparks
 * 1969  Roy J. Plunkett ; Harold C. Urey
 * 1968  Glenn T. Seaborg ; Max Tishler
 * 1966  Eugene G. Rochow, Charles C. Price