Memorial pages by award

Chemical Pioneer Award

award for chemists or chemical engineers who have made outstanding contributions to advances in chemistry or the chemical profession

Memorial Pages

29 memorial pages of recipients of the Chemical Pioneer Award

Memorial

Edith M. Flanigen

01/28/1929 – 01/06/2026

96 years

American chemist

Buffalo

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Gábor A. Somorjai

05/04/1935 – 07/07/2025

90 years

Palo Alto

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Ray H. Baughman

01/14/1943 – 04/18/2025

82 years

United States

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Roy L. Pruett

11/26/1924 – 01/23/2022

97 years

United States

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Fred McLafferty

05/11/1923 – 12/26/2021

98 years

United States

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James Economy

03/28/1929 – 10/26/2021

92 years

Urbana

Family Tree

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Helen Murray Free

02/20/1923 – 05/01/2021

98 years

American chemist and educator

Elkhart

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Alan Cowley

01/29/1934 – 08/02/2020

86 years

United Kingdom

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Jerrold Meinwald

01/16/1927 – 04/23/2018

91 years

Ithaca

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Owen Webster

03/25/1929 – 04/13/2018

89 years

Glen Mills

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Isabella Karle

12/02/1921 – 10/03/2017

95 years

American physical chemist

Alexandria

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Gregory Choppin

11/09/1927 – 10/21/2015

87 years

Tallahassee

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Stephanie L. Kwolek

07/31/1923 – 06/18/2014

90 years

American chemist, inventor of Kevlar

Wilmington

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William Standish Knowles

06/01/1917 – 06/13/2012

95 years

American chemist

Chesterfield

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Howard E. Zimmerman

07/05/1926 – 02/12/2012

85 years

Middletown

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Barnett Rosenberg

11/16/1926 – 08/08/2009

82 years

Lansing

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Ralph Hirschmann

05/06/1922 – 06/20/2009

87 years

Lansdale

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Alan MacDiarmid

04/14/1927 – 02/07/2007

79 years

New Zealand chemist

Drexel Hill

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Robert Bruce Merrifield

07/15/1921 – 05/14/2006

84 years

American biochemist

Cresskill

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Charles C. Price

07/13/1913 – 02/11/2001

87 years

Haverford

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Alex Golden Oblad

11/26/1909 – 09/19/2000

90 years

Salt Lake City

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Orlando Aloysius Battista

06/20/1917 – 10/03/1995

78 years

Canada

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Roy Plunkett

06/26/1910 – 05/12/1994

83 years

Corpus Christi

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Charles J. Plank

11/08/1915 – 10/23/1989

73 years

Woodbury

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