Past Recipients of the Harrison Howe Award
Note: The date in parentheses designates the year that the Harrison Howe Awardee received the Nobel Prize. Following the link for a Nobel Laureate will bring you to their entry at the official website of the Nobel Prize.
1945 Linus Pauling (1954 Chemistry, 1962 Peace)
1946 Glenn Seaborg (1951 Chemistry)
1947 Gerty Cori (1947 Medicine)
1947 Carl Cori (1947 Medicine)
1948 Herman Mark
1949 Karl Folkers
1950 Robert Woodward (1965 Chemistry)
1951 Paul Bartlett
1952 Melvin Calvin (1961 Chemistry)
1953 Herbert Brown (1979 Chemistry)
1954 Frank Westheimer
1955 Paul Flory (1974 Chemistry)
1956 Vernon Cheldelin
1957 John Roberts
1958 William Lipscomb (1976 Chemistry)
1959 Paul Doty
1960 Henry Taube (1983 Chemistry)
1961 Michael Dewar
1962 Gilbert Stork
1963 Charles Townes (1964 Physics)
1964 Marshall Nirenberg (1968 Medicine)
1965 Manfred Eigen (1967 Chemistry)
1966 Britton Chance
1967 Martin Karplus
1968 Harden McConnell
1969 Roald Hoffmann (1981 Chemistry)
1970 Elias J. Corey (1990 Chemistry)
1971 John Pople (1998 Chemistry)
1972 Harry Gray
1973 Kai Siegbahn (1981 Physics)
1973 David Turner
1974 Ronald Breslow
1975 F. Albert Cotton
1976 John Brauman
1977 Richard Holm
1978 Walter Gilbert (1980 Chemistry)
1979 George Whitesides
1980 Alan Bard
1981 Yoshito Kishi
1982 Pierre-Gilles De Gennes (1991 Physics)
1983 Yuan Lee (1986 Chemistry)
1984 Thomas Cech (1989 Chemistry)
1985 Richard Zare
1986 Nicholas Turro
1987 K. Barry Sharpless (2001 Chemistry and 2022 Chemistry)
1988 Peter Dervan
1989 Ahmed Zewail (1999 Chemistry)
1990 Richard Schrock (2005 Chemistry)
1991 Alexander Pines
1992 Richard Saykally
1993 Peter Schultz
1994 Richard Smalley (1996 Chemistry)
1995 Stuart Schreiber
1996 David Tirrell
1997 Jeremy Berg
1998 Chi-Huey Wong
1999 Graham Fleming
2000 J. Craig Venter
2001 Robert Langer
2002 Charles Lieber
2003 Jack Szostak (2009 Medicine)
2004 Michael Marletta
2005 Laura Kiessling
2008 Daniel G. Nocera
2009 Carolyn R. Bertozzi (2022 Chemistry)
2011 Joseph DeSimone
2012 Xiaoliang Sunney Xie
2015 David W.C. MacMillan (2021 Chemistry)
2018 Chad Mirkin
2020 Wilfred van der Donk
Some interesting statistics...
- There have been 70 Harrison Howe Award winners as of 2022.
- Twenty-nine Harrison Howe winners subsequently won a Nobel Prize (41%).
- The average time between a Harrison Howe Award and a Nobel Prize is 11.3 years.
- Three months was the shortest time between a Harrison Howe Award and a Nobel Prize (Gerty and Carl Cori).
- The longest time between a Harrison Howe Award and a Nobel Prize was 46 years (Martin Karplus).
- The average Harrison Howe winner is 43 years old.
- There have been three female Harrison Howe awardees (Cori [1947], Kiessling [2005], Bertozzi [2009]).