NAS Award in Chemical Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences is warded for innovative research in the chemical sciences that in the broadest sense contributes to a better understanding of the natural sciences and to the benefit of humanity.

Recipients

• Linus Pauling (1979)
• Frank H. Westheimer (1980)
• Bruno H. Zimm (1981)
• Gilbert Stork (1982)
• Henry Taube (1983)
• Richard B. Bernstein (1985)
• Roald Hoffmann (1986)
• Herbert C. Brown (1987)
• Harden M. McConnell (1988)
• Ronald Breslow (1989)
• F. Albert Cotton (1990)
• Richard N. Zare (1991)
• Donald J. Cram (1992)
• Richard H. Holm (1993)
• Koji Nakanishi (1994)
• Isabella L. Karle (1995)
• Ahmed H. Zewail (1996)
• M. Frederick Hawthorne (1997)
• Allen J. Bard (1998)
• John D. Roberts (1999)
• K. Barry Sharpless (2000)
• John I. Brauman (2001)
• Elias J. Corey (2002)
• Harry B. Gray (2003)
• Robert G. Parr (2004)
• Thomas C. Bruice (2005)
• Samuel J. Danishefsky (2006)