# Chemical Institute of Canada Medal

The Chemical Institute of Canada Medal or CIC Medal is the highest award that the Chemical Institute of Canada confers. Awarded annually since 1951, it is given to "a person who has made an outstanding contribution to the science of chemistry or chemical engineering in Canada".
The medal is presented at the annual Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition or Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, at which the recipient gives a plenary lecture.
The award commemorates the isolation of nickel by Frederik Cronstedt in 1751. The medals were originally sponsored by the International Nickel Company and consisted of 8 ounces (227g) of pure palladium. The sponsorship ended in 2006, since when the medals have been made of silver plated nickel.

## Winners

Source (recent winners): CIC
| Date | Award Winner | Award Lecture |
| 2024 | Warren Piers |
| 2023 | Janusz Pawliszyn, University of Waterloo |
| 2022 | Chao-Jun Li, McGill University | |
| 2021 | Molly Shoichet, University of Waterloo | |
| 2020 | Jonathan Abbatt, University of Toronto | |
| 2019 | Linda Nazar, University of Waterloo | |
| 2018 | André Charette [Wikidata] | A Journey Into Organic Synthesis: Evolution of Methods and Techniques to Tackle 21st Century Problems |
| 2017 | Eugenia Kumacheva | Nanoparticle Self-assembly Bridging the Gap between Molecules and Nanoparticles |
| 2016 | Stephen G. Withers [Wikidata] | Design and Discovery of Enzyme Inhibitors Towards Therapies for Diabetes and Influenza |
| 2015 | Axel D. Becke | Full Circle, A Career in Density-Functional Theory |
| 2014 | Douglas Stephan | From Frustrated Lewis Pairs to Electrophlic Phosphorium Cations: Metal-free Approaches to Hydrogenation Catalysis |
| 2013 | Mark Lautens | Multicomponent-Multicatalytic Reactions (MC)2R |
| 2012 | Raymond Andersen [Wikidata] | Sponging Off Nature for New Drug Leads |
| 2011 | Adi Eisenberg [Wikidata] | Block Copolymer Vesicles Following Nature's Trail with Bigger Molecules |
| 2010 | Tom Ziegler [de] | Approaching Chemistry from First Principle with Density Functional Theory |
| 2009 | R. J. Dwayne Miller | Making the Molecular Movie: Quest for the Structure-Function Correlation of Biology |
| 2008 | John Vederas [Wikidata] | The Chemistry and Biology of Getting Drugs from Bugs |
| 2007 | Diethard Böhme | Gas-Phase Ions and Chemical Mass Spectrometry |
| 2006 | Ronald Kluger [Wikidata] | Molecular Keystones: Lessons from Bioorganic Reaction Mechanisms |
| 2005 | Peter J. Guthrie [Wikidata] | Computational Chemistry as a Tool for Mechanistic Investigations: Predicting Rate and Equilibrium Constants |
| 2004 | Mitchell A. Winnik [Wikidata] | Nanowires and Nanotubes through Block-Copolymer Self-Assembly |
| 2003 | Raymond E. Kapral [Wikidata] | |
| 2002 | Chris E. Brion [Wikidata] | Experimental Observation of Orbital-Like Behaviour of Valence Electrons: Which Orbital Models are Appropriate For Describing Electron Transfer? |
| 2001 | Geoffrey Ozin | Race for the Photonic Chip |
| 2000 | Brian R. James [Wikidata] | |
| 1999 | Juan Cesar Scaiano | Laser Applications in the Study of Organic Reaction Mechanisms |
| 1998 | Richard J. Puddephatt | Bond Activation by Organoplatinum Compounds |
| 1997 | Howard Alper | Catalysis Today: New Opportunities for Tomorrow |
| 1996 | G. Michael Bancroft | Synchrotron Radiation: the Light Source of the Future |
| 1995 | J. Bryan Jones [Wikidata] | Studies on Enzymes. A Personal Perspective |
| 1994 | William A. G. Graham [Wikidata] | The Rich Potential of Trispyraxolylborate Ligands |
| 1993 | Paul Brumer | Control of Chemical Reactions Using Lasers |
| 1992 | Donald Allan Ramsay [ru] | The Spectra of Free Radicals |
| 1991 | Keith C. Yates [Wikidata] | The Nature of Photohydration Reactivity |
| 1990 | Ashok Vijh | Excursions in Electrochemical Physics |
| 1989 | John L. Holmes [Wikidata] | Novel Ions, Molecules and Radicals; Mass Spectrometry's Gifts to Chemistry |
| 1988 | Stephen Hanessian | Man, Machine and Heuristics in Synthesis Planning |
| 1987 | John C. D. Brand [Wikidata] | Multiphoton Spectroscopy |
| 1986 | Paul Kebarle [Wikidata] | Energy Changes of Ionic Reactions in the Gas Phase and Solution - Bridging of the Two Fields |
| 1985 | Adrian G. Brook [Wikidata] | One Thing Leads to Another - From Silylcarbinols to Silaethylenes |
| 1984 | Peter Yates [Wikidata] | Aspects of the Photochemistry of Cyclic Ketones |
| 1983 | Camille Sandorfy | Chemical Spectroscopy in the Far Ultraviolet |
| 1982 | P. de Mayo [Wikidata] | Superficial Photochemistry |
| 1981 | Keith U. Ingold | Oxidation and Its. Prevention in Petrochemicals, Food and Living Systems |
| 1980 | W. Howard Rapson [Wikidata] | Chemistry and Human Welfare |
| 1979 | Bernard Belleau | The Curse of Opium: Requital through Medicinal Organic Chemistry |
| 1978 | R. J. Cvetanović [Wikidata] | Some Current Trends in Chemical Kinetics |
| 1977 | Ronald J. Gillespie | Structural Chemistry of the Main Group Elements |
| 1976 | John C. Polanyi | Molecular Motions in Chemical Reactions |
| 1975 | Brian E. Conway | Electrochemical Studies in Surface Science |
| 1974 | Harold J. Bernstein [Wikidata] | Resonance Raman Spectroscopy |
| 1973 | Stanley Mason [fr; it] | The Micro-Rheology of Disperse Systems |
| 1972 | Gerhard Herzberg | Spectra of Simple Free Radicals |
| 1971 | Keith J. Laidler | Adventures in Chemical Kinetics |
| 1970 | Donald J. Le Roy [Wikidata] | The Kinetics of the Simplest Chemical Reactions |
| 1969 | Charles A. McDowell [Wikidata] | Photoelectron Spectroscopy |
| 1968 | James A. Morrison [Wikidata] | The Unexpected Behavior of Solid Methane at Very Low Temperatures |
| 1967 | Harold E. Gunning | Sulphur Atom Chemistry |
| 1966 | William-Henry Gauvin | High Temperature Research |
| 1965 | Paul-Antoine Giguère | Thirty Years of Peroxide Chemistry |
| 1964 | Raymond U. Lemieux | The Chemical Synthesis of Glycosides |
| 1963 | Karel Wiesner | Ten Years of Studies on Basic Terpenes at the University of New Brunswick |
| 1962 | Erich Baer [de] | Natural Phospholipids - Synthesis and Structure |
| 1961 | William G. Schneider | Problem Electrons |
| 1960 | C. B. Purves [Wikidata] | Locating Substituents in Cellulose - A Review |
| 1959 | Richard H. F. Manske [Wikidata] | Fifty Years with Alkaloids |
| 1958 | Carl A. Winkler [Wikidata] | Active Nitrogen |
| 1957 | Henry G. Thode | The Geochemistry of the Sulphur Isotopes |
| 1956 | Leo Marion | The Biogenesis of Alkaloids |
| 1955 | Alvin R. Gordon [Wikidata] | Current Problems in the Field of the Electrolytes |
| 1954 | R. K. Stratford [Wikidata] | Thirty Years in Petroleum Research |
| 1953 | E. W. R. Steacie | Present Status of Radical Mechanisms for Organic Decompositions |
| 1952 | Otto Maass | Some Underlying Factors Involving the Process of Wood Pulp Production |
| 1951 | T. Thorvaldson | The Training of Chemists for Industry |