The James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public is awarded on a yearly basis by the

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.James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public
at the American Chemical Society website The Award recognizes outstanding reporting on chemistry, chemical engineering, and related chemical fields. Typically the winner must have communicated to the public through "the press, radio, television, films, the lecture platform, books, or pamphlets for the lay public." The award consists of $5,000 and a medallion. The Award was established in 1955 as the James T. Grady Award; in 1984 "James H. Stack" was added to the award name.

Recipients

* 1957 David H. Killeffer * 1958 William L. Laurence * 1959 Alton L. Blakeslee * 1960 Watson Davis * 1961 David Dietz * 1962 John F. Baxter * 1963

Lawrence Lessing Lawrence P. Lessing is an American science writer. A native of Buffalo, New York, he started his career as a newspaper man in Pittsburgh. There he was a correspondent for ''Time'' magazine. He was a long-time member of the board of editors of ' ...

* 1964 Nate Haseltine * 1965

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* 1966 Frank E. Carey * 1967 Irving S. Bengelsdorf * 1968 Raymond A. Bruner * 1969

Walter S. Sullivan Walter Seager Sullivan, Jr. (January 12, 1918 – March 19, 1996) was considered the "dean" of science writers. Sullivan spent most of his career as a science reporter for '' The New York Times''. Over a 50-year career he covered all aspect ...

* 1970 Robert C. Cowen * 1971 Victor Cohn * 1972

Daniel Q. Posin Daniel Q. Posin (1909–2003) was an American physicist. He was born in 1909 in Russian Turkestan, close to the Caspian Sea. When he was six years old his family fled the Russian revolution, and in a journey that took three years he made it to M ...

* 1973 O. A. Battista * 1974 Ronald Kotulak * 1975 Jon Franklin * 1976 Gene Bylinsky * 1977 Patrick Young * 1978 Michael Woods * 1979 Peter Gwynne * 1980 Edward Edelson * 1981 Robert W. Cooke * 1982 Albert Rosenfeld * 1983 Matt Clark * 1984 Cristine Russell * 1985 Joe Alper * 1986 Ben Patrusky * 1987 Al Rossiter, Jr. * 1988 Arthur Fisher * 1989 Robert Kanigel * 1990 Jerry E. Bishop * 1991 Betty Debnam * 1992 Malcolm Browne * 1993 Tom Siegfried * 1994 Don Herbert * 1995 Ivan Amato * 1996 Elizabeth Pennisi * 1997 Richard Lipkin * 1998 Joe Palca * 1999 Joseph A. Schwarcz * 2000 Jeff Wheelwright * 2001 David Perlman * 2002 Curt Suplee * 2003 Boyce Rensberger * 2004 William S. Hammack * 2005 Robert L. Wolke * 2006

Philip Ball Philip Ball (born 1962) is a British science writer. For over twenty years he has been an editor of the journal ''Nature'' for which he continues to write regularly. He now writes a regular column in ''Chemistry World''. He has contributed to ...

* 2007 Stuart F. Brown * 2008 Harold McGee * 2009 Roald Hoffmann * 2010 Ron Seely * 2011

Theodore Gray Theodore W. "Theo" Gray is a co-founder of Wolfram Research, science author, and co-founder of app developer Touch Press. Education Theodore Gray was educated at the University of Illinois Laboratory High School. He would later graduate w ...

* 2012 Paul Raeburn * 2013 Shirley O. Corriher * 2014

Alan Alda Alan Alda (; born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo; January 28, 1936) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is best known for playing Captain Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce in the war come ...

* 2015 Deborah Blum * 2016

Peter Atkins Peter William Atkins (born 10 August 1940) is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including ''Physical Chemistry'', ''I ...

* 2017 Thomas Hager * 2018 Bassam Shakhashiri * 2019 Sir Martyn Poliakoff * 2020 Raychelle Burks * 2021 Sam Kean

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