Anselme Payen Award

The Anselme Payen Award is an annual prize presented by the American Chemical Society's Cellulose and Renewable Materials Division to honor "outstanding professional contributions to the science and chemical technology of cellulose and its allied products".^[1]

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It is named in honor of Anselme Payen, the French chemist who first discovered cellulose.

Recipients

• 1962 - Louis Wise
• 1963 - Clifford Purves
• 1964 - Harold Spurlin
• 1965 - Carl Malm
• 1966 - Wayne Sisson
• 1967 - Roy Whistler
• 1968 - Alfred Stamm
• 1969 - Stanley Mason
• 1970 - Wilson Reeves
• 1971 - Tore Timell
• 1972 - Conrad Schuerch
• 1973 - D. Goring
• 1974 - V. Stannett
• 1975 - J. Jones
• 1976 - Robert Marchessault
• 1977 - Kyle Ward
• 1978 - Howard Rapson
• 1979 - Kyosti Sarkanen
• 1980 - Olof Chalmers
• 1981 - Stanley Rowland
• 1982 - Erich Adler
• 1983 - Reginald Preston
• 1984 - Jett Arthur
• 1985 - Orlando Battista
• 1986 - Malcolm Brown
• 1987 - Takayoshi Higuchi
• 1988 - Bengt Ranby
• 1989 - Anatole Sarko
• 1990 - Junzo Nakano
• 1991 - Henri Chanzy
• 1992 - Josef Geier
• 1993 - Derek Gray
• 1994 - Geoffrey Richards
• 1995 - Josef Gratzl
• 1996 - Haig Zeronian
• 1997 - Joseph McCarthy
• 1998 - Rajai Atalla
• 1999 - John Blackwell
• 2000 - Wolfgang Glasser
• 2001 - Liisa Viikari
• 2002 - John Manley
• 2003 - Deborah Delmer
• 2004 - Dieter Klemm
• 2005 - Peter Zugenmaier
• 2006 - Charles Buchanan

References

1. ^ ACS Cellulose and Renewable Materials Division - Anselme Payen Award.