# William H. Nichols Medal

The William H. Nichols Medal is awarded annually for original research in chemistry. Nominees must have made a "significant and original contribution in any field of chemistry" during the five years preceding the presentation date. The medallist receives a gold medal, a bronze replica and a cash award. The award was established in 1902 by the New York Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) through a gift from chemist and businessman William H. Nichols. It was the first award to be approved by the ACS. The medal was first awarded in 1903.

## Recipients

The award is given yearly and was first presented in 1903.
* 1903 Edward B. Voorhees
* 1904 (no award given)
* 1905 Charles L. Parsons
* 1906 Marston T. Bogert
* 1907 Howard B. Bishop
* 1908 William Hultz Walker
* 1909 H. H. C. P. Weber
* 1909 William A. Noyes
* 1910 L. H. Baekeland
* 1911 C. W. Easley
* 1911 M. A. Rosanof
* 1912 Charles James
* 1913 (no award given)
* 1914 Moses Gomberg
* 1915 Irving Langmuir
* 1916 Claude S. Hudson
* 1917 (no award given)
* 1918 Treat Baldwin Johnson
* 1919 (no award given)
* 1920 Irving Langmuir
* 1921 Gilbert N. Lewis
* 1922 (no award given)
* 1923 Thomas Midgley Jr.
* 1924 Charles A. Kraus
* 1925 Edward Curtis Franklin
* 1926 S. C. Lind
* 1927 Roger Adams
* 1928 Hugh S. Taylor
* 1929 William L. Evans
* 1930 Samuel E. Sheppard [Wikidata]
* 1931 John A. Wilson
* 1932 James B. Conant
* 1933 (no award given)
* 1934 Henry C. Sherman
* 1935 Julius A. Nieuwland
* 1936 William M. Clark
* 1937 Frank C. Whitmore
* 1938 P. A. Levene
* 1939 Joel H. Hildebrand
* 1940 John M. Nelson
* 1941 Linus Pauling
* 1942 Duncan A. MacInnes
* 1943 Arthur B. Lamb [de]
* 1944 Carl S. Marvel
* 1945 Vincent du Vigneaud
* 1946 Wendell M. Stanley
* 1947 George B. Kistiakowski
* 1948 Glenn T. Seaborg
* 1949 I. M. Kolthoff
* 1950 Oskar Wintersteiner [de]
* 1951 Henry Eyring
* 1952 Frank H. Spedding
* 1953 Reynold C. Fuson
* 1954 Charles P. Smyth
* 1955 Wendell M. Latimer
* 1956 Robert Burns Woodward
* 1957 Louis P. Hammett
* 1958 Melvin Calvin
* 1959 Herbert C. Brown
* 1960 Herman F. Mark
* 1961 Peter J. W. Debye
* 1962 Paul J. Flory
* 1963 Louis F. Fieser
* 1964 Arthur C. Cope
* 1965 Herbert E. Carter
* 1966 Frederick D. Rossini
* 1967 Karl Folkers
* 1968 William S. Johnson
* 1969 Marshall Nirenberg
* 1970 Britton Chance
* 1971 Henry Taube
* 1972 John D. Roberts
* 1973 R. Bruce Merrifield
* 1974 Harold A. Scheraga
* 1975 F. Albert Cotton
* 1976 Paul D. Bartlett
* 1977 Elias J. Corey
* 1978 Frank Alden Bovey [de]
* 1979 Choh Hao Li
* 1980 Gilbert Stork
* 1981 Roald Hoffmann
* 1982 Frank H. Westheimer
* 1983 Neil Bartlett
* 1984 Fred W. McLafferty
* 1985 Jerome A. Berson
* 1986 Michael J. S. Dewar
* 1987 Kurt Mislow
* 1988 Ralph F. Hirschmann
* 1989 Ronald Breslow
* 1990 John D. Baldeschwieler
* 1991 J. Calvin Giddings
* 1992 Koji Nakanishi
* 1993 Richard E. Smalley
* 1994 Peter B. Dervan
* 1995 Stephen J. Lippard
* 1996 K. C. Nicolaou
* 1997 Jacqueline K. Barton
* 1998 Ahmed H. Zewail
* 1999 Samuel J. Danishefsky
* 2000 Barry M. Trost
* 2001 Stuart L. Schreiber
* 2002 Alan G. MacDiarmid
* 2003 Harry Gray
* 2004 Allen J. Bard
* 2005 Richard N. Zare
* 2006 K. Barry Sharpless
* 2007 Nicholas J. Turro
* 2008 Nadrian C. Seeman
* 2009 Carolyn R. Bertozzi
* 2010 Tobin J. Marks
* 2011 Julius Rebek (Jr.)
* 2012 Alan G. Marshall
* 2013 Richard Eisenberg
* 2014 Amos Smith (III)
* 2015 Gabor A. Somorjai
* 2016 Stephen L. Buchwald
* 2017 Chad Mirkin
* 2018 Debra R. Rolison
* 2019 Vicki Grassian
* 2020 Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
* 2021 (No award given)
* 2022 Alison Butler
* 2023 Karen Goldberg
* 2024 Emily A. Carter
* 2025 Benjamin Cravatt III