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basic interactions responsible for biological function. The instrumentation for this work, developed in Pratt's laboratory, has now been copied by several labs around the world.
His pioneering work in the use of catalysts has succeeded in making the methods for producing complex natural products much more efficient.
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Alois Furstner Wins Otto Bayer Prize
Nadrian Seeman Receives 2005 World Technology Award
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Pittsburgh Award Goes To David Pratt
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Institute for Coal Research in Mulheim an der Ruhr, in Germany, is the winner of the 2006 Otto Bayer Prize. The award recognizes Furstner's outstanding achievements in the field of natural product synthesis, with spécifie emphasis on catalysis research. He received the prize of50,000 euros at a ceremony onJan. 18 in Leverkusen. Furstner's work involves researching new catalytic methods for synthesizing complex natural products. His studies focus on compounds with unsaturated hydrocarbons that change their bonding structure under the effect of catalysts (organometallic compounds). One key application of this procedure is ring-closing metathesis, which has enabled large ring-shaped molecules to be created in the lab.
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York University, has been named winner of the 2005 World Technology Award for Biotechnology by the World Technology Network. He was named the recipient after the organization stripped the initial winner, Woo Suk Hwang, of the honor after Hwang's research on stem cells was found to be falsified. Seeman and his colleagues at N Y U developed the field of DNA nanotechnology. The systems they have produced enable the specific organization of a variety of other chemical species that are relevant to nanoelectronics, photonics, and drug design. They have also built machines that work on the nanoscale, such as a device that al-
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at the University of Pittsburgh, has received the 2005 Pittsburgh Award from the ACS Pittsburgh Section. The award recognizes outstanding leadership in chemical affairs in the local and larger professional community. The annual award consists of a plaque and will be presented during the section's awards dinner in the fall. Pratt is known for being both an outstanding teacher and a groundbreaking researcher. He has received numerous awards for teaching excellence, has mentored more than 100 undergraduate research students, and has supervised more than 50 doctoral students. He has lectured in the Chemistry Olympics and developed a training grant for K-12 science teachers in the University of Pittsburgh School of Education. Pratt's research in high-resolution gasphase electronic spectroscopy has allowed his group to probe the weak binding associated with, for instance, peptides and enzyme analogs, and to discover how this binding changes with the conformation of these large molecules. The research sheds light on how the strength of nonbonded interactions within molecules influences their structure and chemical reactivity and illuminates the
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Davison Receives Carothers Award
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of chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the winner of the 2006 Wallace H. Carothers Award. The
award is presented by the Delaware Section of ACS in recognition of outstanding contributions in industrial chemistry. Davison will present a lecture during the award dinner on April 4 at the DuPont Country Club in Wilmington, Del. Davison's early research led to the synthesis of a number of novel hydride and carbonyl complexes of transition metals. Later on, he invented the entire class of technetium compounds from which the cardiac imaging agent Cardiolite came. His investigations of
technetium coordination chemistry guided Cardiolite from initial discovery in 1981 to Food & Drug Administration approval in 1990. Cardiolite is now the leading cardiac imaging agent in the world. Davison has been an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, a recipient of the Paul C. Aebersold Award for Outstanding Achievement in Basic Science Applied to Nuclear Medicine, a recipient of the Ernest H. Swift Lectureship at California Institute of Technology, a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and a recipient of the American Chemical Society Award for Creative Invention.
Fred Régnier Recognized For Commercialization Efforts
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guished Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University, is the recipient of the university's Outstanding Commercialization Award, sponsored by the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership. Regnier's research has resulted in 40 patents, many now licensed by Indiana companies. "Among the many Purdue faculty who have used their research to make a direct impact on our quality of life, Fred Régnier is a renowned pioneer," said Purdue President Martin C. Jischke. "His research on chromatography is directly responsible for the development of many life-saving biopharmaceuticals." In the early 1980s, Régnier and his colleagues developed a chromatographic method to produce substances such as human growth hormone and tissue plasminogen activator, a protein that can dissolve blood clots. Régnier is also noted for his efforts in proteomics and for developing a way to place multiple minilabs on a single silicon chip. He and a colleague developed technology for detecting proteins by spinning disk interferometry.
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ΗΜΙΜΒΚΜΜΜ» given in recognition of outstanding achieve ments in coatings science, technology, and engineering. Martin is one ofthe world's leading experts in predicting the service life ofpolymeric ma terials. His research focuses on implement ing a reliability-based methodology for pre dicting the weather ing service life of poly meric materials. He has also initiated an extensive research pro gram in nanophysical and nanochemical measurements for char acterizing polymer degradation. He has received numerous awards for his research, including an R&D 100 Award, the 2004 John Gardon Award, the 2006 Mattiello Lecture Award, and the Bronze Medal Award from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Martin will receive the award and present an award address during the ACS national meeting in San Francisco in September.
Richard Schrock Named 2006 Richards Medalist
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ICHARD R. SCHROCK, FREDERICK G.
Keyes Professor ofChemistry at Mas sachusetts Institute ofTechnology, has been selected to receive the 2006 Richards Medal presented by the ACS Northeastern Section (NES). The Richards Medal is award ed every two years for conspicuous achieve ment in chemistry. It is the section's oldest and most prestigious award, and it is named in honor of the first U.S. Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Theodore W. Richards. Schrock's research interests include the inorganic and organometallic chemistry of high-oxidation-state, early-transition-metal complexes (especially those that contain an alkylidene or alkylidyne ligand); catalysis and mechanisms; the chemistry of high-oxida tion-state dinitrogen complexes and catalytic dinitrogen reduction; and the controlled po lymerization of olefins and acetylenes. Schrock was one ofthe 2005 Nobel Laure ates in Chemistry He has previously received the ACS Award in Organometallic Chemis try (1985), the Harrison Howe Award from the ACS Rochester Section (1990), the ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry (1996), and an ACS Cope Scholar Award (2001). He is the 2006 winner of the ACS F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry Schrock will be honored at an award din-
ner and medal presentation in conjunction with the NES/ACS meeting on March 9 at Harvard University. His award address is titled "Catalytic Reduction of Dinitrogen to Ammonia at Room Temperature and One Atmosphere."
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Plyler Prize Goes To Mark Johnson
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ARK A. JOHNSON, ARTHUR T. KEMP
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Special Recognition Michael R Tweedle, president and CEO of Bracco Research USA, has won the Harry Fischer Medal for Excellence in Contrast Media Research. The award is one of the highest honors for researchers in the field of contrast media. Joseph Nagyvary, professor emeritus at Texas A&M, was awarded a gold medal in Tokyo by the Japanese Society of Applied Physics on Dec. 13,2005. Nagyvary, who has spent 30 years researching Stradivarius violins and their composition, presented a talk, "Decoding the Stradivarius," with special emphasis on micro- and nanocomposite structures. The medal recognizes Nagyvary's discovery of nanocomposites in the varnish of the Stradivarius violin. •
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