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. President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ...

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)

Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American quantum chemist and biochemist, widely regarded as the premier chemist of the twentieth century. ... Gilbert Stork (born January 1, 1921) is a Belgian-born U.S. organic chemist. ... Professor Henry Taube, Ph. ... Roald Hoffmann (born July 18, 1937 as Roald Safran --- Hoffmann is the surname of his stepfather) is an American theoretical chemist of Polish-Jewish origin. ... Herbert Charles Brown (May 22, 1912 – December 19, 2004) was a chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1979 (along with Georg Wittig) for his work with organoboranes. ... Ronald Breslow is a scientist. ... Richard N. Zare (born November 19, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University. ... Donald James Cram (April 22, 1919 – June 17, 2001) was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “synthesizing three-dimensional molecules that could mimic the functioning of natural molecules. ... Ahmed zewail Ahmed Hassan Zewail (Arabic: أحمد زويل) (born February 26, 1946) is an Egyptian chemist, and the winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. ... Karl Barry Sharpless (born April 28, 1941) is an American chemist renowned for his work on organometallic chemistry. ... Elias James Corey (born July 12, 1928) is an American organic chemist. ... Robert Ghormley Parr (born September 22, 1921) is a theoretical chemist. ...

External links

• NAS Award in Chemical Sciences