The Anselme Payen Award is an annual prize named in honor of

Anselme Payen Anselme Payen (; 6 January 1795 – 12 May 1871) was a French chemist known for discovering the enzyme diastase, and the carbohydrate cellulose. Biography Payen was born in Paris. He began studying science with his father when he was a 13-yea ...

, the French scientist who discovered cellulose, and was a pioneer in the chemistry of both cellulose and lignin. In 1838, he discovered that treating successively wood with nitric acid and an alkaline solution yielded a major insoluble residue that he called "cellulose", while dissolved incrustants were later called "lignin" by Frank Schulze. He was the first to attempt separation of wood into its component parts. After treating different woods with

nitric acid Nitric acid is an inorganic compound with the formula . It is a highly corrosive mineral acid. The compound is colorless, but samples tend to acquire a yellow cast over time due to decomposition into nitrogen oxide, oxides of nitrogen. Most com ...

he obtained a fibrous substance common to all which he also found in cotton and other plants. His analysis revealed the chemical formula of the substance to be C₆H₁₀O₅. He reported the discovery and the first results of this classic work in 1838 in ''Comptes Rendus''. The name "cellulose" was coined by him, and this was introduced into the scientific literature next year, in 1839. Anselme Payen Award Recipients
The Anselme Payen Award, which includes a medal and an honorarium given by the

American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 155,000 members at all ...

's Cellulose and Renewable Materials Division, to honor and encourage "outstanding professional contributions to the science and chemical technology of cellulose and its allied products".
The Anselme Payen Award is an international award and any scientist conducting cellulose and cellulose related research is eligible for nomination. Selection of the awardee is based upon an evaluation of the nomination packages submitted on behalf of potential awardees. These documents are individually ranked by a panel of nine judges who are appointed by the current Chair-Elect and are unknown to each other. Three judges rotate off the panel each year. The identity of all members is known only to the Chair of the awards committee who compiles the results. After the awardee accepts, the Chair of the Awards Committee announces the winner at the next Spring ACS meeting. The awardee for that year is honored at the following Spring ACS meeting at a Symposium and Banquet. The award bears the year the winner was announced. It is presented the following year to allow time for organization of the Symposium and Banquet.

Recipients

{, class="wikitable" , - ! Year !! Awardee !! Institution , - , 1962 , , Louis Elsberg Wise , , The Institute of Paper Chemistry , - , 1963 , , Clifford Burroughs Purves , , McGill University , - , 1964 , , Harold Morton Spurlin , , Hercules , - , 1965 , , Carl Johan Malm , , Eastman Kodak , - , 1966 , , Wayne A. Sisson , , American Viscose , - , 1967 , , Roy L. Whistler , , Purdue University , - , 1968 , , Alfred J. Stamm , , USDA Forest Products Lab , - , 1969 , , Stanley Mason , , McGill University , - , 1970 , , Wilson A. Reeves , , USDA, ARS, Southern Regional Research Center , - , 1971 , , Tore E. Timell , , SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry , - , 1972 , , Conrad Schuerch , , SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry , - , 1973 , , D. A. I. Goring , , McGill University , - , 1974 , , Vivian Thomas Stannett , , North Carolina State University , - , 1975 , , J. K. N. Jones , , Queens University , - , 1976 , , Robert H. Marchessault , , University of Montreal , - , 1977 , , W. Kyle Ward, Jr. , , The Institute of Paper Chemistry , - , 1978 , , W. Howard Rapson , , University of Toronto , - , 1979 , , Kyosti V. Sarkanen , , University of Washington , - , 1980 , , Olof Samuelson , , Chalmers University of Technology , - , 1981 , , Stanley P. Rowland , , USDA, ARS, Southern Regional Research Center , - , 1982 , , Erich Adler , , Chalmers University of Technology , - , 1983 , , Reginald D. Preston , , Leeds University , - , 1984 , , Jett C. Arthur, Jr. , , USDA, ARS, Southern Regional Research Center , - , 1985 , , Orlando A. Battista , , The O. A. Battista Research Institute , - , 1986 , , R. Malcolm Brown, Jr. , , The University of Texas at Austin , - , 1987 , , Takayoshi Higuchi , ,

Kyoto University , or , is a National university, national research university in Kyoto, Japan. Founded in 1897, it is one of the former Imperial Universities and the second oldest university in Japan. The university has ten undergraduate faculties, eighteen gra ...

, - , 1988 , , Bengt Ranby , , Royal Institute of Technology , - , 1989 , , Anatole Sarko , , SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry , - , 1990 , , Junzo Nakano , ,

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

, - , 1991 , , Henri Chanzy , , CERMAV, Grenoble , - , 1992 , , Josef Gierer , ,

KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology (), abbreviated KTH, is a Public university, public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in Institute of technology, engineering and technology and is Sweden's largest te ...

, - , 1993 , , Derek Gray , , Paprican, McGill University , - , 1994 , , Geoffrey N. Richards , , University of Montana , - , 1995 , , Josef Gratzl , , North Carolina State University , - , 1996 , , S. Haig Zeronian , , University of California, Davis , - , 1997 , , Joseph L. McCarthy , , University of Washington , - , 1998 , , Rajai H. Atalla , , USDA Forest Products Laboratory , - , 1999 , , John Blackwell Case , , Western Reserve University , - , 2000 , , Wolfgang G. Glasser , , Virginia Tech , - , 2001 , , Liisa Viikari , , VTT Biotechnology , - , 2002 , , R. St. John Manley , , McGill University , - , 2003 , , Deborah P. Delmer , , The Rockefeller Foundation , - , 2004 , , Dieter Klemm , ,

Friedrich Schiller University Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The university was established in 1558 and is cou ...

, - , 2005 , , Peter Zugenmaier , , Clausthal University of Technology , - , 2006 , , Charles Buchanan , , Eastman Chemical Company , - , 2007 , , Fumitaka Horii , ,

, - , 2008 , , Fumiaki Nakatsubo , ,

, - , 2009 , , Alfred D. French , , USDA, ARS, Southern Regional Research Center , - , 2010 , , Thomas Heinze , , Friedrich Schiller University of Jena , - , 2011 , , Lina Zhang , ,

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, - , 2012 , , Hans-Peter Fink , , Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research , - , 2013 , , John Ralph , ,

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, - , 2014 , , Thomas Rosenau , ,

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, - , 2016 , , Kevin Edgar, ,

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, - , 2017 , , Junji Sugiyama , ,

, - , 2018 , , Orlando J. Rojas , ,

Aalto University Aalto University (; ) is a public university, public research university located in Espoo, Finland. It was established in 2010 as a merger of three major Finnish universities: the Helsinki University of Technology, the Helsinki School of Economic ...

, - , 2019 , , Ann-Christine Albertsson , ,

, - , 2020 , , Run-Cang Sun , , Dalian Polytechnic University , - , 2021 , , Yoshiharu Nishiyama , ,

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Grenoble Alpes University The (, ''Grenoble Alps University'', abbr. UGA) is a ''grand établissement'' in Grenoble, France. Founded in 1339, it is the third largest university in France with about 60,000 students and over 3,000 researchers. Established as the Univer ...

, - , 2022 , , Christoph Weder , , Adolphe Merkle Institute and

University of Fribourg The University of Fribourg (; ) is a public university located in Fribourg, Switzerland. The roots of the university can be traced back to 1580, when the notable Jesuit Peter Canisius founded the Collège Saint-Michel in the City of Fribourg ...

, - , 2023 , , Lars Berglund , ,

, - , 2024 , , Lars Wågberg , ,

References

Chemistry awards American science and technology awards Awards established in 1962