Nakanishi Prize

The Nakanishi Prize, named after Japanese chemist Koji Nakanishi, is an award in chemistry given alternately by the Chemical Society of Japan and the American Chemical Society.

Purpose

"To recognize and stimulate significant work that extends chemical and spectroscopic methods to the study of important biological phenomena."[1]

History

In 1995, friends and colleagues of Nakanishi established the Nakanishi Prize. It was decided that the Chemical Society of Japan and the American Chemical Society would alternate years awarding the prize. There are two separate endowments for the prize for each society, but the prize is the same for both awards: a medallion in presentation box, $5,000 prize money, and $2,500 travel reimbursements.

Recipients

Source: American Chemical Society

Year Recipient Insititution Rationale Awarded by
1996 Yoshimasa Hirata Nagoya University Chemical Society of Japan
1997 Frank H. Westheimer Harvard University American Chemical Society
1998 Albert J. Eschenmoser ETH Zurich Chemical Society of Japan
1999 Jeremy R. Knowles Harvard University American Chemical Society
2000 Satoshi Ōmura Kitasato University Chemical Society of Japan
2001 John D. Roberts California Institute of Technology American Chemical Society
2002 Sir Jack Baldwin University of Oxford Chemical Society of Japan
2003 A. Ian Scott Texas A&M University American Chemical Society
2004 Isao Kitagawa Kyoritsu College of Pharmacy

Osaka University

 Chemical Society of Japan
2005 Stephen J. Benkovic Pennsylvania State University American Chemical Society
2006 Takeshi Yasumoto Tohoku University

Okinawa Science and Technology Promotion Center

 For his "contribution to the chemistry of seafood poisonings and analytical study on dynamism of the causative toxic molecules among marine ecology"[2] Chemical Society of Japan
2007 Hung-wen Liu University of Texas at Austin American Chemical Society
2008 Michel Rohmer Louis Pasteur University Chemical Society of Japan
2009 JoAnne Stubbe Massachusetts Institute of Technology For identifying the role of radical intermediates in ribonucleotide reductase functions American Chemical Society
2010 Shosuke Yamamura Keio University Chemical Society of Japan
2011 C. Dale Poulter University of Utah American Chemical Society
2012 Daisuke Uemura Kanagawa University Chemical Society of Japan
2013 Arthur G. Palmer III Columbia University American Chemical Society
2014 Jerrold Meinwald Cornell University Chemical Society of Japan
2015 Fred W. McLafferty Cornell University For developing “top-down proteomics” for characterizing a protein’s sequence and modifications[3] American Chemical Society
2016 Shoichi Kusumoto Chemical Society of Japan
2017 Martin Gruebele American Chemical Society
2018 Nobuyuki Harada Chemical Society of Japan
2019 Lewis E. Kay University of Toronto American Chemical Society
2020 Mei Hong Massachusetts Institute of Technology American Chemical Society

See also

References
  1. "Nakanishi Prize". American Chemical Society. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  2. "Nakanishi Prize Awarded To Takeshi Yasumoto | Chemical & Engineering News". cen.acs.org. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  3. "Coates, McLafferty win national chemistry awards | Cornell Chronicle". news.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
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