DEXTER AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY

The award recognized an outstanding career of contributions to the history of chemistry.
The award consisted of a monetary award and a plaque.
The award was international in scope, and was presented annually at the fall national ACS meeting.
The Dexter Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry was established in 1956 and ended in 2001.
It was sponsored by the Dexter Chemical Corporation (1956-1999), and by the Mildred and Sidney Edelstein Foundation (2000-2001). Sidney Edelstein founded the Dexter Chemical Corporation of New York in 1945. He was an extremely active HIST member, being Secretary/Treasurer from 1948 - 1965. For more information on Dr. Edestein, see the Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine - Founder and Biographical Information on Sidney M. Edelstein. In 2002, the award was re-named the Sidney M. Edelstein Award for Outstanding Acheivement in the History of Chemistry and sponsored by Ruth E. [Edelstein] Barish and the Chemical Heritage Foundation with additional support from HIST.

Year	Awardee	Affiliation at Time of Award	Award Address	Reference
2001	William A. Smeaton	(posthumously presented)	NO PAPER PUBLISHED	Bull. Hist. Chem. 27 ( 2002), 1.
2000	Alan J. Rocke	Case Western University	Celebrity Culture in Parisian Chemistry	Bull. Hist. Chem. 26 ( 2001), 81-91.
1999	Mary Jo Nye	Oregon State University	Was Linus Pauling a Revolutionary Chemist?	Bull. Hist. Chem. 25 ( 2000), 73-82.
1998	Seymour H. Mauskopf	Duke University	"From an Instrument of War to an Instrument of the Laboratory" The Affinities Certainly do not Change Chemists and the Development of Munitions, 1785-1885	Bull. Hist. Chem. No. 24 ( 1999), 1-15.
1997	Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent	Universite Paris X	A Language to Order the Chaos	Bull. Hist. Chem. No. 23 ( 1999), 1-10.
1996	Keith J. Laidler	University of Ottawa	Contrast in Chemical Style: Sidgwick and Eyring	Bull. Hist. Chem. No. 22 ( 1998), 1-9.
1995	William H. Brock	University of Leicester	The Chemical Origins of Practical Physics	Bull. Hist. Chem. No. 21 ( 1998), 1-11.
1994	Frederic L. Holmes	Yale University	What was the Chemical Revolution About?	Bull. Hist. Chem. No. 20 ( 1997), 1-9.
1993	Jospeh S. Fruton	Yale University	Thomas Burr Osborne and Chemistry	Bull. Hist. Chem. Nos. 17 & 18 ( 1995), 1-8.
1992	John T. Stock	University of Connecticut	Historical Chemical Instrumentation	Bull. Hist. Chem. Nos. 15 & 16 ( 1994), 1-8.
1991	Owen Hannaway	Johns Hopkins University	Herbert Hoover and Georgius Agricola: The Distorting Mirrors of History	Bull. Hist. Chem. No. 12 ( 1992), 3-10.
1990	Colin A. Russell	Open University, Milton Keynes	Records of Chemistry: Combustion or Conservation?	Bull. Hist. Chem. No.9 ( 1991), 3-7.
1989	D. Stanley Tarbell	Vanderbilt University	Ways of Writing the History of Science	Bull. Hist. Chem. No. 6 (1990), 3-7.
1988	Lutz F. Haber	Bath, England	Historians and the Chemical Industry	Bull. Hist. Chem. No. 3 (1989), 4-6.
1987	Allen Debus	University of Chicago	Quantification and Medical Motivation: Factors in the Interpretation of Early Modern Chemistry	Bull. Hist. Chem. No. 1 (1988), 4-5.
1986	Robert Anderson	Dept. of Technology, Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh	NO PAPER PUBLISHED
1985	Robert Multhauf		Some Observations on the State of the History of Chemistry	HIST Newsletter Number 16 (Spring 1986), 4-6.
1984	Maurice Crosland	University of Kent, Canterbury	NO PAPER PUBLISHED
1983	Arnold Thackray	University of Pennsylvania	NO PAPER PUBLISHED
1982	John H. Wotiz	Southern Illinois University	NO PAPER PUBLISHED
1981	Cyril Stanley Smith	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	NO PAPER PUBLISHED
1980	Maurice Daumas	National Museum of Arts and Commerce, France	NO PAPER PUBLISHED
1979	Joseph Needham	Cambridge University	NO PAPER PUBLISHED
1978	George B. Kauffman	California State University, Fresno	"Alfred Werner's Views of Valence"	J. Chem. Ed. 56 (1979) 496-498.
1977	Modesto Bargallo	National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City	NO PAPER PUBLISHED
1976	Trevor I. Williams		NO PAPER PUBLISHED
1975	Jan W. van Spronsen	University of Utrecht	NO PAPER PUBLISHED
1974	No Award
1973	Bernard Jaffe		NO PAPER PUBLISHED
1972	Henry Guerlac	Cornell University	NO PAPER PUBLISHED
1971	Wyndham D. Miles		NO PAPER PUBLISHED
1970	Ferenc Szabadvary	Technical University, Budapest	"Reflections on the Present and Future of the History of Science"	J. Chem. Ed. 48 (1971) 282-284. Chem. Eng. News Nov. 9 (1970) 65.
1969	Walter Pagel		NO PAPER PUBLISHED
1968	Aaron J. Ihde	University of Wisconsin-Madison	"An Inquiry into the Origins of Hybrid Sciences: Astrophysics and Biochemistry"	J. Chem. Ed. 46 (1969) 193-196.
1967	Mary Elvira Weeks	Wayne State University	NO PAPER PUBLISHED	Chem. Eng. News Feb. 26 (1968) 71.
1966	Earle R. Caley	Ohio State University	"The Early History of Chemistry in the Service of Archeology"	J. Chem. Ed. 44 (1967) 120-123. Chem. Eng. News Sept. 26 (1966) 113.
1965	Martin Levey	SUNY Albany	"Chemical Technology and Medieval Arabic Mining"	Chymia 12 (1967) 3-14. Chem. Eng. News Oct. 4 (1965) 72.
1964	Eduard Farber		"Historiography of Chemistry"	J. Chem. Ed. 42 (1965) 120-126. Chem. Eng. News Sept. 14 (1964) 145.
1963	Douglas McKie	University College, London	NO PAPER PUBLISHED	Chem. Eng. News Nov. 18 (1963) 108.
1962	Henry M. Leicester	College of Physicians & Surgeons San Francisco	"Some Aspects of the History of Chemistry in Russia"	J. Chem. Ed. 40 (1963) 108-109.
1961	James R. Partington	Queen Mary College, London	"The Discovery of Oxygen"	J. Chem. Ed. 39 (1962) 123-125.
1960	Denis Duveen		"Personalized Bibliography: An Approach to the History of Chemistry"	J. Chem. Ed. 38 (1961) 418-420; Chem. Eng. News Sept. 26 (1960) 140.
1959	John Read	University of St. Andrews, Scotland	"Science, Literature, and Human Thought"	J. Chem. Ed. 37 (1960) 110-117. Chem. Eng. News Nov. 2 (1954) 114.
1958	Eva Armstrong	University of Pennsylvania	NO PAPER PUBLISHED	No published coverage of the award.
1957	Williams Haynes		NO PAPER PUBLISHED	Chem. Eng. News Sept. 23 (1957) 24; J. Chem. Ed. 34 (1957) 488.
1956	Ralph E. Oesper	University of Cincinnati	NO PAPER PUBLISHED	J. Chem. Ed. 34 (1957) 106

American Chemical Society Division of the History of Chemistry

DEXTER AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY

American Chemical Society

Division of the History of Chemistry