Anselme Payen Award
Encyclopedia
The Anselme Payen Award is an annual prize presented by the American Chemical Society
's Cellulose and Renewable
Materials Division to honor "outstanding professional contributions to the science and chemical technology of cellulose and its allied products".
It is named in honor of Anselme Payen
, the French
chemist
who first discovered cellulose
.
American Chemical Society
The American Chemical Society is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 161,000 members at all degree-levels and in all fields of chemistry, chemical...
's Cellulose and Renewable
Materials Division to honor "outstanding professional contributions to the science and chemical technology of cellulose and its allied products".
It is named in honor of Anselme Payen
Anselme Payen
Anselme Payen was a French chemist known for discovering the enzyme diastase, and the carbohydrate cellulose.Payen was born in Paris...
, the French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
chemist
Chemist
A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...
who first discovered cellulose
Cellulose
Cellulose is an organic compound with the formula , a polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to over ten thousand β linked D-glucose units....
.
Recipients
- 1962 - Louis Wise
- 1963 - Clifford Purves
- 1964 - Harold Spurlin
- 1965 - Carl Malm
- 1966 - Wayne Sisson
- 1967 - Roy Whistler
- 1968 - Alfred Stamm
- 1969 - Stanley Mason
- 1970 - Wilson Reeves
- 1971 - Tore Timell
- 1972 - Conrad Schuerch
- 1973 - D. Goring
- 1974 - V. Stannett
- 1975 - J. Jones
- 1976 - Robert Marchessault
- 1977 - Kyle Ward
- 1978 - Howard Rapson
- 1979 - Kyosti Sarkanen
- 1980 - Olof Chalmers
- 1981 - Stanley Rowland
- 1982 - Erich Adler
- 1983 - Reginald Preston
- 1984 - Jett Arthur
- 1985 - Orlando Battista
- 1986 - Malcolm Brown
- 1987 - Takayoshi Higuchi
- 1988 - Bengt Ranby
- 1989 - Anatole Sarko
- 1990 - Junzo Nakano
- 1991 - Henri Chanzy
- 1992 - Josef Geier
- 1993 - Derek Gray
- 1994 - Geoffrey Richards
- 1995 - Josef Gratzl
- 1996 - Haig Zeronian
- 1997 - Joseph McCarthy
- 1998 - Rajai Atalla
- 1999 - John Blackwell
- 2000 - Wolfgang Glasser
- 2001 - Liisa Viikari
- 2002 - John Manley
- 2003 - Deborah Delmer
- 2004 - Dieter Klemm
- 2005 - Peter Zugenmaier
- 2006 - Charles Buchanan
- 2007 - Fumitaka Horii
- 2008 - Fumiaki Nakatsubo
- 2009 - Alfred French
- 2010 - Thomas Heinze
- 2011 - Lina Zhang