Herman Skolnik Award

The Herman Skolnik Award is awarded annually by the Division of Chemical Information of the American Chemical Society, "to recognize outstanding contributions to and achievements in the theory and practice of chemical information science". As of 2011 the award is of 3,000 US dollars.^[1]

It is named for Herman Skolnik (1914-1994), who was a co-founder of the then ACS Division of Chemical Literature in 1948 and a key figure in the Division.^[2] The first award was made to him.

Recipients

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1970s

• 1976: Herman Skolnik
• 1977: Eugene Garfield
• 1978: Fred A. Tate

1980s

• 1980: William J. Wiswesser
• 1981: Ben H. Weil
• 1982: Robert Fugmann
• 1983: Russell J. Rowlett, Jr.
• 1984: Montagu Hyams
• 1986: Dale B. Baker
• 1987: William Theilheimer
• 1988: David R. Lide, Jr.
• 1989: Michael F. Lynch

1990s

• 1990: Ernst Meyer
• 1991: Todd Wipke
• 1992: Jacques-Emile Dubois
• 1993: Peter Willett
• 1994: Alexandru T. Balaban
• 1995: Reiner Luckenbach and Clemens Jochum
• 1996: Milan Randic
• 1997: Johann Gasteiger
• 1998: Gary D. Wiggins
• 1999: Stuart M. Kaback

2000s

• 2000: Stephen R. Heller and G. W. A. Milne
• 2001: Guenter Grethe
• 2002: Peter Norton
• 2003: Frank H. Allen
• 2004: Peter Johnson
• 2005: Lorrin Garson
• 2006: Hugo Kubinyi
• 2007: Robert S. Pearlman
• 2008: Gerald M. Maggiora
• 2009: Yvonne C. Martin

2010s

• 2010: Anton J. Hopfinger
• 2011: Alexander Lawson
• 2012: Peter Murray-Rust and Henry Rzepa
• 2013: Richard D. Cramer
• 2014: Engelbert Zass
• 2015: Jürgen Bajorath

References

1. "Herman Skolnik Award". ACS Division of Chemical Information. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
2. Metanomski, W. Val (Spring 1995). "In memoriam Herman Skolnik". Chemical Information Bulletin 47 (2). Retrieved 20 September 2013.

Further reading

• "Descriptions of recipients". ACS Division of Chemical Information. Retrieved 2011-10-08.