William H. Nichols Medal

The William H. Nichols Medal is awarded annually for original research in chemistry. Nominees must have made a "significant and original contribution in any field of chemistry" during the five years preceding the presentation date. The medallist receives a gold medal, a bronze replica and a cash award. The award was established in 1902 by the New York Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) through a gift from chemist and businessman William H. Nichols. It was the first award to be approved by the ACS. The medal was first awarded in 1903.

Recipients
The award is given yearly and was first presented in 1903.


 * 1903 Edward B. Voorhees
 * 1904 (no award given)
 * 1905 Charles L. Parsons
 * 1906 Marston T. Bogert
 * 1907 Howard B. Bishop
 * 1908 William Hultz Walker
 * 1909 H. H. C. P. Weber
 * 1909 William A. Noyes
 * 1910 L. H. Baekeland
 * 1911 C. W. Easley
 * 1911 M. A. Rosanof
 * 1912 Charles James
 * 1913 (no award given)
 * 1914 Moses Gomberg
 * 1915 Irving Langmuir
 * 1916 Claude S. Hudson
 * 1917 (no award given)
 * 1918 Treat Baldwin Johnson
 * 1919 (no award given)
 * 1920 Irving Langmuir
 * 1921 Gilbert N. Lewis
 * 1922 (no award given)
 * 1923 Thomas Midgley Jr.
 * 1924 Charles A. Kraus
 * 1925 Edward Curtis Franklin
 * 1926 S. C. Lind
 * 1927 Roger Adams
 * 1928 Hugh S. Taylor
 * 1929 William L. Evans
 * 1930 Samuel E. Sheppard
 * 1931 John A. Wilson
 * 1932 James B. Conant
 * 1933 (no award given)
 * 1934 Henry C. Sherman
 * 1935 Julius A. Nieuwland
 * 1936 William M. Clark
 * 1937 Frank C. Whitmore
 * 1938 P. A. Levene
 * 1939 Joel H. Hildebrand
 * 1940 John M. Nelson
 * 1941 Linus Pauling
 * 1942 Duncan A. MacInnes
 * 1943 Arthur B. Lamb
 * 1944 Carl S. Marvel
 * 1945 Vincent du Vigneaud
 * 1946 Wendell M. Stanley
 * 1947 George B. Kistiakowski
 * 1948 Glenn T. Seaborg
 * 1949 I. M. Kolthoff
 * 1950 Oskar Wintersteiner
 * 1951 Henry Eyring
 * 1952 Frank H. Spedding
 * 1953 Reynold C. Fuson
 * 1954 Charles P. Smyth
 * 1955 Wendell M. Latimer
 * 1956 Robert Burns Woodward
 * 1957 Louis P. Hammett
 * 1958 Melvin Calvin
 * 1959 Herbert C. Brown
 * 1960 Herman F. Mark
 * 1961 Peter J. W. Debye
 * 1962 Paul J. Flory
 * 1963 Louis F. Fieser
 * 1964 Arthur C. Cope
 * 1965 Herbert E. Carter
 * 1966 Frederick D. Rossini
 * 1967 Karl Folkers
 * 1968 William S. Johnson
 * 1969 Marshall Nirenberg
 * 1970 Britton Chance
 * 1971 Henry Taube
 * 1972 John D. Roberts
 * 1973 R. Bruce Merrifield
 * 1974 Harold A. Scheraga
 * 1975 F. Albert Cotton
 * 1976 Paul D. Bartlett
 * 1977 Elias J. Corey
 * 1978 Frank Alden Bovey
 * 1979 Choh Hao Li
 * 1980 Gilbert Stork
 * 1981 Roald Hoffmann
 * 1982 Frank H. Westheimer
 * 1983 Neil Bartlett
 * 1984 Fred W. McLafferty
 * 1985 Jerome A. Berson
 * 1986 Michael J. S. Dewar
 * 1987 Kurt Mislow
 * 1988 Ralph F. Hirschmann
 * 1989 Ronald Breslow
 * 1990 John D. Baldeschwieler
 * 1991 J. Calvin Giddings
 * 1992 Koji Nakanishi
 * 1993 Richard E. Smalley
 * 1994 Peter B. Dervan
 * 1995 Stephen J. Lippard
 * 1996 K. C. Nicolaou
 * 1997 Jacqueline K. Barton
 * 1998 Ahmed H. Zewail
 * 1999 Samuel J. Danishefsky
 * 2000 Barry M. Trost
 * 2001 Stuart L. Schreiber
 * 2002 Alan G. MacDiarmid
 * 2003 Harry Gray
 * 2004 Allen J. Bard
 * 2005 Richard N. Zare
 * 2006 K. Barry Sharpless
 * 2007 Nicholas J. Turro
 * 2008 Nadrian C. Seeman
 * 2009 Carolyn R. Bertozzi
 * 2010 Tobin J. Marks
 * 2011 Julius Rebek (Jr.)
 * 2012 Alan G. Marshall
 * 2013 Richard Eisenberg
 * 2014 Amos Smith (III)
 * 2015 Gabor A. Somorjai
 * 2016 Stephen L. Buchwald
 * 2017 Chad Mirkin
 * 2018 Debra R. Rolison
 * 2019 Vicki Grassian
 * 2020 Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
 * 2021 (No award given)