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associated with California institutions at time of research |
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associated with California institutions at time of research |
| Year Awarded | Awardee, Affiliation | ACS Section | Research Contribution |
| 2000
(shared prize) |
Alan Heeger, UC Santa Barbara | Los Padres | for the discovery and development of
conductive polymers |
| 1999 | Ahmed Zewail,
Caltech |
Southern California | for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy |
| 1998
(split prize) |
Walter Kohn,
UC Santa Barbara |
Los Padres | for his development of the density-functional theory |
| 1997
(shared prize) |
Paul D Boyer,
UC Los Angeles |
Southern California | for elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate |
| 1995
(shared prized) |
F. Sherwood Rowland,
UC Irvine |
Orange County | for work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning formation and decomposition of ozone |
| 1994 | George A. Olah,
University of Southern California |
Southern California | for his contribution to carbocation chemistry |
| 1993
(split prize) |
Kary B. Mullis,
La Jolla surfer |
San Diego | for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method |
| 1992 | Rudolph A. Marcus,
Caltech |
Southern California | for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems |
| 1987
(shared prize) |
Donald J. Cram,
UC Los Angeles |
Southern California | for development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity |
| 1986
(shared prize) |
Yaun T. Lee,
UC Berkeley |
California | for contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes |
| 1980
(split prize) |
Paul Berg,
Stanford University |
Santa Clara Valley | for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant DNA |
| 1974 | Paul J. Flory,
Stanford University |
Santa Clara Valley | for his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules |
| 1961 | Melvin Calvin,
UC Berkeley |
California | for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants |
| 1960 | Willard Frank Libby,
UC Los Angeles |
Southern California | for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science |
| 1954 | Linus Carl Pauling,
Caltech |
Southern California | for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances |
| 1951 | Edwin Mattison McMillan and Glenn Theodore Seaborg,
UC Berkeley |
California | for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements |
| 1949 | William Francis Giauque, UC Berkeley | California | for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning behavior of substances at extremely low temperatures |
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