Raymond Lemieux award received Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Raymond Urgel Lemieux, CC, AOE, FRS (June 16, 1920 – July 22, 2000) was a Canadian organic chemist, who pioneered many discoveries in the field of chemistry, his first and most famous being the synthesis of sucrose. His contributions include the discovery of the anomeric effect and the development of general methodologies for the synthesis of saccharides still employed in the area of carbohydrate chemistry. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Society (England), and a recipient of the prestigious Albert Einstein World Award of Science and Wolf Prize in Chemistry.Induction into the Royal Society of Canada (1954)
C.S. Hudson Award of the American Chemical Society (1966)
Became the first western Canadian to be elected a fellow of the Royal Society (England) (1967)
Appointed Officer of the Order of Canada (1968)
Haworth Award and Medal (1983)
The Tishler Award, Harvard University (1983)
Gairdner Foundation International Award (1985)
Made Honorary Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Stockholm (1988)
Induction into the Alberta Order of Excellence (1990)
King Faisal International Prize for Science (first Canadian) (1990)
NSERC Gold Medal in Science (1991)
Albert Einstein World Award of Science (1992)
Made Companion of the Order of Canada (1994)
Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1999)
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