The Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry or Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry is awarded annually by

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, the publisher of Tetrahedron Publications. It was established in 1980 and named in honour of the founding co-chairmen of these publications, Professor Sir Robert Robinson and Professor

Robert Burns Woodward Robert Burns Woodward (April 10, 1917 – July 8, 1979) was an American organic chemist. He is considered by many to be the preeminent synthetic organic chemist of the twentieth century, having made many key contributions to the subject, esp ...

. The prize consists of a gold medal, a certificate, and a monetary award of US $15,000.

Prizewinners

Winners of the prize are: * 2024 Eric N. Jacobsen * 2023 Chuan He * 2022 Chi-Huey Wong * 2021

Richard Bruce Silverman Richard Bruce Silverman (born May 12, 1946) is the Patrick G. Ryan/Aon Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. His group's main focus is basic and translational research into central nervous system disorders and cancer. He is known f ...

* 2020 Dale L. Boger * 2019 Peter G. Schultz * 2018 Stephen L. Buchwald and John Hartwig * 2017 Laura L. Kiessling * 2016

Ben Feringa Bernard Lucas "Ben" Feringa (; born 18 May 1951) is a Dutch synthetic organic chemist, specializing in molecular nanotechnology and homogeneous catalysis. He is the Jacobus van 't Hoff Distinguished Professor of Molecular Sciences, at the ...

* 2015 William L. Jorgensen * 2014

Barry Trost Barry M. Trost (born June 13, 1941, in Philadelphia) is an American chemist who is the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor Emeritus in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. The Tsuji–Trost reaction and the Trost ligand ar ...

and Jirō Tsuji * 2013

Shankar Balasubramanian Sir Shankar Balasubramanian (born 30 September 1966) is an Indian-born British chemist and Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, ccessed 4 April 2013 Senior Group Leader ...

* 2012 Paul A. Wender * 2011 Manfred T. Reetz * 2010

Satoshi Ōmura is a Japanese biochemist. He is known for the discovery and development of hundreds of pharmaceuticals originally occurring in microorganisms. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with William C. Campbell f ...

* 2009 Steven V. Ley * 2008

Larry E. Overman Larry E. Overman is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. He was born in Chicago in 1943. Overman obtained a B.A. degree from Earlham College in 1965, and he completed his Ph.D. in chemistry from the Unive ...

* 2007 J. Fraser Stoddart * 2006

Hisashi Yamamoto (born July 16, 1943) is a prominent organic chemist and currently a member of the faculty at the University of Chicago and professor of Chubu University. Life Born in Kobe, Japan, Yamamoto earned a B.S. at Kyoto University in 1967 and a Ph.D. at ...

* 2005 Bernd Giese * 2004 Koji Nakanishi * 2003 Robert H. Grubbs and

Dieter Seebach Dieter Seebach is a German chemist known for his synthesis of biopolymers and dendrimers, and for his contributions to stereochemistry. He was born on 31 October 1937 in Karlsruhe. He studied chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) under t ...

* 2002 Kyriacos C. Nicolaou * 2001

Yoshito Kishi was a Japanese chemist who was the Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University. He was known for his contributions to the sciences of organic synthesis and total synthesis. Early life and education Kishi was born in Nagoya, Japan ...

* 2000 Peter B. Dervan * 1999 Henri B. Kagan * 1998 David A. Evans and Teruaki Mukaiyama * 1997 Stuart L. Schreiber * 1996 Samuel Danishefsky * 1995 Alan R. Battersby and

A. Ian Scott Alastair Ian Scott (10 April 1928 in Glasgow – 18 April 2007) was a British-American organic chemist who achieved international renown for elucidating the biosynthetic pathway of vitamin B12. He occupied successive chairs of organic chemistry a ...

* 1993 Ryoji Noyori and K. Barry Sharpless * 1991

William Summer Johnson William Summer Johnson (February 24, 1913 – August 19, 1995) was an American chemist and teacher. From 1940 to 1958, Johnson was an instructor and then professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 1958, he moved to Stanford Universi ...

* 1989 Michael J. S. Dewar * 1987 Arthur J. Birch * 1985

Gilbert Stork Gilbert Stork (December 31, 1921 – October 21, 2017) was a Belgian-American organic chemist. For a quarter of a century he was the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Columbia University. He is known for making significant contri ...

* 1983 Elias J. Corey * 1981

Albert Eschenmoser Albert Jakob Eschenmoser (5 August 1925 – 14 July 2023) was a Swiss organic chemist, best known for his work on the synthesis of complex heterocyclic natural compounds, most notably vitamin B12. In addition to his significant contributions to ...

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* {{official, https://www.elsevier.com/resources/awards/tetrahedron-prize-for-creativity Elsevier Awards established in 1981 British science and technology awards Chemistry awards

Prizewinners

See also

References

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