# Prêmio Welch de Química

O Prêmio Welch de Química (em inglês: Welch Award in Chemistry) é concedido pela The Welch Foundation. O propósito do prêmio é fomentar e encorajar pesquisa química básica e reconhecer, de forma substancial, o valor das contribuições em pesquisa química para o benefício da humanidade. O prêmio é dotado com US$ 300.000.

## Laureados

| Ano | Recipiente | Motivo |
| 1972 | Karl August Folkers Universidade do Texas em Austin | For his basic research in the area of life sciences. |
| 1974 | Albert Eschenmoser Instituto Federal de Tecnologia de Zurique | For his profound and highly creative contributions to synthetic chemistry. |
| 1976 | Neil Bartlett Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley | For his synthesis of chemical compounds of noble gases and the consequent opening of broad new fields of research in inorganic chemistry. |
| 1978 | Edgar Bright Wilson Universidade Harvard | For his pioneering theoretical and experimental contributions to molecular structure. |
| 1980 | Sune Bergström Instituto Karolinska | For his pioneering studies of the prostaglandins. |
| 1981 | Paul Doughty Bartlett Texas Christian University | For his original investigations of the mechanisms of organic reactions. |
| 1982 | Frank Westheimer Universidade Harvard | For his significant achievements in the field of bioorganic chemistry. |
| 1983 | Henry Taube Universidade Stanford | For his contributions to the field of chemistry, particularly in inorganics. |
| 1984 | Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley | For his theory for the internal rotation of groups within molecules. |
| 1985 | Duilio Arigoni Instituto Federal de Tecnologia de Zurique | For his contributions of founding the field of bioorganic stereochemistry. |
| 1986 | George Claude Pimentel Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley | For his contribution to the field of hydrogen bonding, matrix isolation, and chemical lasers. |
| 1987 | Harry George Drickamer Universidade de Illinois em Urbana-Champaign | For his research on the effects of pressure on optical, electrical magnetic and chemical properties of matter. |
| 1988 | Richard Barry Bernstein Universidade da Califórnia em Los Angeles | For his pioneering research in chemical dynamics, thereby providing a new understanding of chemical reactions. |
| 1989 | Norman Davidson Instituto de Tecnologia da Califórnia | For his pioneering research contributions to the understanding of the structure and function of genetic materials, especially for his novel techniques which had a powerful influence in this field. |
| 1990 | John Dombrowski Roberts Instituto de Tecnologia da Califórnia | For his integration of molecular spectroscopy, quantum mechanics, kinetics and other aspects of physical chemistry with his talent for organic synthesis. In the application of these intertwined disciplines to the study of structure activities of organic molecules. |
| 1990 | William von Eggers Doering Universidade Harvard | For his critical contribution into fundamental aspects of physical organic chemistry. Among his many other important contributions, his work on the carbenes was a pioneering effort which opened a broad field. |
| 1991 | Earl R. Stadtman National Institutes of Health | For his work in demonstrating that covalent interconvertible enzyme cascades provide the cell with a finely tuned regulatory mechanism capable of integrating a vast amount of metabolic information, and that they have a remarkable potential for amplification signals and rates. |
| 1991 | Edwin Krebs Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington | For his part in showing that interconversion of phosphorylase between its active and inactive forms involved phosphorylation/ dephosphorylation, a process fundamental to the regulation of nearly every vital biological function. |
| 1992 | Richard Smalley Universidade de Rice | For his career contributions to physical chemistry, including his development and use of supersonic molecular beam techniques for the study of clusters, ions, and molecules. |
| 1993 | Gilbert Stork Universidade Columbia | For his work in developing new methods in organic synthesis and as a mentor to leading synthetic chemists all over the world. He has profoundly influenced the way scientists think about natural product synthesis in general and stereochemical control in particular. |
| 1994 | Jack Halpern Universidade de Chicago | For his contributions to understanding reaction mechanisms not only of inorganic chemicals but of complex organometallic reactions systems as well; also for his contributions to understanding the field of homogeneous catalysis in solution. |
| 1994 | Frank Albert Cotton Texas A&M University | For his work leading to our current understanding of multiple bonds of metal-metal bonding of transition metal chemistry and for his major impact in the field of inorganic and structural chemistry by virtue of his own work and the numerous individuals who worked in his laboratory as students or postdoctoral fellows. |
| 1995 | Jeremy R. Knowles Universidade Harvard | For his important contributions to mechanistic enzymology. |
| 1995 | Robert Abeles Universidade Brandeis | For his contributions to our understanding of the mechanisms of catalysis by enzymes and to the rational development of compounds that inactivate enzymes. |
| 1996 | Koji Nakanishi Universidade Columbia | For his major contribution to our greater understanding of and our capacity to use many of the bioactive compounds found in nature. |
| 1997 | Ahmed Zewail Instituto de Tecnologia da Califórnia | For his leadership and pioneering contribution to all phases of femtosecond chemistry. |
| 1998 | Pierre Chambon Collège de France | For his achievements in the field of nuclear receptors which have paved the way to a molecular understanding of vertebrate fundamental processes as well as their pathological disorders. |
| 1999 | Richard Zare Universidade Stanford | For his seminal contributions in the area of chemical reaction dynamics and in the general field of molecular spectroscopy. |
| 2000 | A. Ian Scott Texas A&M University | For his great contributions to organic chemistry and biochemistry, especially the elegant use of every physical and biological tool available to solve complex structural and mechanistic problems in natural product chemistry and biosynthesis, e.g., vitamin B$_{12}$. He has provided concepts and methodologies which have been fruitful to many others. |
| 2000 | Alan Battersby Universidade de Cambridge | For his work which is well described as the biosynthesis of the pigments of life. It represents one of the major and most significant enterprises in contemporary chemistry and has transformed knowledge of the biosynthesis of such vital substances as vitamin B$_{12}$. |
| 2001 | Roger Kornberg Universidade Stanford | For his seminal contributions in biological and structural chemistry: (1) the discovery, basic structure and function of nucleosome; (2) the discovery of the multiprotein Mediator of transcriptional regulation; and (3) the structures of the giant RNA polymerase II transcription initiation and elongation complexes. |
| 2002 | Harden McConnell Universidade Stanford | For his thorough understanding of magnetic resonance and its use in achieving greater insight into chemical systems including reaction dynamics, magnetic resonance imaging and membrane phenomenon. |
| 2003 | Ronald Breslow Universidade Columbia | For his pioneering contributions to the field of biomimetic chemistry and catalysis by design. |
| 2004 | Allen Joseph Bard Universidade do Texas em Austin | For his major accomplishments in the field of electrochemistry and the effect of these on the discipline of chemistry itself. |
| 2005 | George Whitesides Universidade Harvard | For the breadth and depth of his insight into chemical processes and his astute use of this understanding in approaching and solving many difficult problems in organic chemistry, biochemistry, biology, material science and surface science. |
| 2006 | Daniel Edward Koshland Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley | For his consistent and highly effective use of basic chemical principles to bring to greater clarity chemical processes in complex biological systems. |
| 2007 | William Hughes Miller Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley | For pioneering development of the modern theory of chemical reaction dynamics and rates. |
| 2007 | Noel Hush Universidade de Sydney | For fundamental work on the theory of homogeneous and heterogeneous electron transfer and contributions in the area of molecular electronics. |
| 2008 | Alexander Rich Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts | For outstanding contributions to the understanding of the chemical and biochemical mechanisms in maintaining a living cell. |
| 2009 | Harry Barkus Gray Instituto de Tecnologia da Califórnia | For definitive contributions to the field of inorganic chemistry. |
| 2010 | JoAnne Stubbe Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts; Christopher Thomas Walsh, Harvard Medical School | For their insights into the chemistry of enzymes in biological systems. |
| 2011 | John Waugh Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts | For ground-breaking research in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. |
| 2012 | David A. Evans Universidade Harvard | For his contributions to organic reaction design, in particular stereocontrol in carbon-carbon bond formation, which advanced the field of complex molecule synthesis. |
| 2013 | Louis Brus Universidade Columbia | For creating the field of colloidal quantum dots (semiconductor nanocrystals). |
| 2014 | Robert G. Bergman Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley | For pioneering work in alkane activation and mechanisms of organometallic reactions. |
| 2015 | Stephen Coplan Harrison Harvard Medical School | For outstanding contributions to the x-ray crystallography of viruses and protein nucleic aid complexes. |
| 2016 | Richard Hadley Holm Universidade Harvard; Stephen Lippard Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts | For their important research contributions in the fields of inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry. |
| 2017 | John Bannister Goodenough Universidade do Texas em Austin | |