JOSEPH B. LAMBERT
HIST AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT
IN THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY
- The award recognizes an outstanding career of contributions to the history of chemistry.
- The award consists of a monetary award and a plaque.
- The award is international in scope, and is presented annually at the Fall National ACS meeting.
- This award was formerly known as the Dexter Award, the Sidney M. Edelstein Award, the HIST Award and in 2023 the Joseph B. Lambert HIST Award. NOTE: There will be no distinction between previous HIST Award winners and the Joseph B. Lambert HIST Award. It continues a tradition started in 1956 with the first Dexter Award. This award is sponsored by and administered by the Division of the History of Chemistry (HIST).
- CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
- Award Committee
| Year | Awardee | Affiliation at Time of Award | Award Address | Reference |
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| 2024 | James L. and Virginia R. Marshall | Emeritus Professor of Chemistry (JLM) University of North Texas, Denton, Tx |
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| 2023 | Geoffrey and Marelene Rayner-Canham | Grenfell Campus, Memorial University | ||
| 2022 | Marco Beretta | University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy | ||
| 2021 | Mary Virginia Orna | Emeritus Professor of Chemistry College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY |
Truly, Necessarily, on the Shoulders of Giants: An Astonishing Historic Journey | Bull. Hist. Chem. 2023, 48(1), 4-16. |
| 2020 | Lawrence M. Principe | Johns Hopkins University | ||
| 2019 | Otto Theodor (Ted) Benfey | Emeritus Professor of Chemistry and History of Science Guilford College, Greensboro NC |
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| 2018 | David E. Lewis | University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire | 1860-1861: Magic Years in the Development of the Structural Theory of Organic Chemistry | Bull. Hist. Chem. 2019, 44(2), 77-91. |
| 2017 | Jeffrey I. Seeman | University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia | Profiles, Pathways and Dreams: From Naïveté to the HIST Award | Bull. Hist. Chem. 2018, 43(2), 45-60. |
| 2016 | Ursula Klein | Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany | Chemists for the Common Good (1) | Bull. Hist. Chem. 2017, 42(1), 1-6. |
| 2015 | Christoph Meinel | University of Regensburg, Germany | ||
| 2014 | Ernst Homburg | University of Maastricht, The Netherlands | ||
| 2013 | William R. Newman | Indiana University, Bloomington, IN | ||