O Prêmio Welch de Química () é concedido pela The Welch Foundation. O propósito do prêmio é fomentar e encorajar pesquisa química básica e reconhecer, de forma substancial, o valor das contribuições em pesquisa química para o benefício da humanidade. O prêmio é dotado com US$ 300.000.
Laureados AnoRecipienteMotivo Welch Award - Previous Recipients 1972Karl August FolkersUniversidade do Texas em AustinFor his basic research in the area of life sciences.1974Albert EschenmoserFor his profound and highly creative contributions to synthetic chemistry.1976Neil BartlettUniversidade da Califórnia em BerkeleyFor his synthesis of chemical compounds of noble gases and the consequent opening of broad new fields of research in inorganic chemistry.1978Edgar Bright WilsonUniversidade HarvardFor his pioneering theoretical and experimental contributions to molecular structure.1980Sune BergströmInstituto KarolinskaFor his pioneering studies of the prostaglandins.1981Paul Doughty BartlettTexas Christian UniversityFor his original investigations of the mechanisms of organic reactions.1982Frank WestheimerUniversidade HarvardFor his significant achievements in the field of bioorganic chemistry.1983Henry TaubeUniversidade StanfordFor his contributions to the field of chemistry, particularly in inorganics.1984Kenneth Sanborn PitzerUniversidade da Califórnia em BerkeleyFor his theory for the internal rotation of groups within molecules.1985Duilio ArigoniInstituto Federal de Tecnologia de ZuriqueFor his contributions of founding the field of bioorganic stereochemistry.1986George Claude PimentelUniversidade da Califórnia em BerkeleyFor his contribution to the field of hydrogen bonding, matrix isolation, and chemical lasers.1987Harry George DrickamerUniversidade de Illinois em Urbana-ChampaignFor his research on the effects of pressure on optical, electrical magnetic and chemical properties of matter.1988Richard Barry BernsteinUniversidade da Califórnia em Los AngelesFor his pioneering research in chemical dynamics, thereby providing a new understanding of chemical reactions.1989Norman DavidsonInstituto de Tecnologia da CalifórniaFor his pioneering research contributions to the understanding of the structure and function of genetic materials, especially for his novel techniques which had a powerful influence in this field.1990John Dombrowski RobertsInstituto de Tecnologia da CalifórniaFor his integration of molecular spectroscopy, quantum mechanics, kinetics and other aspects of physical chemistry with his talent for organic synthesis. In the application of these intertwined disciplines to the study of structure activities of organic molecules.1990William von Eggers DoeringUniversidade HarvardFor his critical contribution into fundamental aspects of physical organic chemistry. Among his many other important contributions, his work on the carbenes was a pioneering effort which opened a broad field.1991Earl R. StadtmanNational Institutes of HealthFor his work in demonstrating that covalent interconvertible enzyme cascades provide the cell with a finely tuned regulatory mechanism capable of integrating a vast amount of metabolic information, and that they have a remarkable potential for amplification signals and rates.1991Edwin KrebsHoward Hughes Medical Institute, University of WashingtonFor his part in showing that interconversion of phosphorylase between its active and inactive forms involved phosphorylation/ dephosphorylation, a process fundamental to the regulation of nearly every vital biological function.1992Richard SmalleyUniversidade de RiceFor his career contributions to physical chemistry, including his development and use of supersonic molecular beam techniques for the study of clusters, ions, and molecules.1993Gilbert StorkUniversidade ColumbiaFor his work in developing new methods in organic synthesis and as a mentor to leading synthetic chemists all over the world. He has profoundly influenced the way scientists think about natural product synthesis in general and stereochemical control in particular.1994Jack HalpernUniversidade de ChicagoFor his contributions to understanding reaction mechanisms not only of inorganic chemicals but of complex organometallic reactions systems as well; also for his contributions to understanding the field of homogeneous catalysis in solution.1994Frank Albert CottonTexas A&M UniversityFor his work leading to our current understanding of multiple bonds of metal-metal bonding of transition metal chemistry and for his major impact in the field of inorganic and structural chemistry by virtue of his own work and the numerous individuals who worked in his laboratory as students or postdoctoral fellows.1995Jeremy R. KnowlesUniversidade HarvardFor his important contributions to mechanistic enzymology.1995Robert AbelesUniversidade BrandeisFor his contributions to our understanding of the mechanisms of catalysis by enzymes and to the rational development of compounds that inactivate enzymes.1996Koji NakanishiUniversidade ColumbiaFor his major contribution to our greater understanding of and our capacity to use many of the bioactive compounds found in nature.1997Ahmed ZewailInstituto de Tecnologia da CalifórniaFor his leadership and pioneering contribution to all phases of femtosecond chemistry.1998Pierre ChambonCollège de FranceFor his achievements in the field of nuclear receptors which have paved the way to a molecular understanding of vertebrate fundamental processes as well as their pathological disorders.1999Richard ZareUniversidade StanfordFor his seminal contributions in the area of chemical reaction dynamics and in the general field of molecular spectroscopy.2000A. Ian ScottTexas A&M UniversityFor his great contributions to organic chemistry and biochemistry, especially the elegant use of every physical and biological tool available to solve complex structural and mechanistic problems in natural product chemistry and biosynthesis, e.g., vitamin B12. He has provided concepts and methodologies which have been fruitful to many others.2000Alan BattersbyUniversidade de CambridgeFor his work which is well described as the biosynthesis of the pigments of life. It represents one of the major and most significant enterprises in contemporary chemistry and has transformed knowledge of the biosynthesis of such vital substances as vitamin B12.2001Roger KornbergUniversidade StanfordFor his seminal contributions in biological and structural chemistry: (1) the discovery, basic structure and function of nucleosome; (2) the discovery of the multiprotein Mediator of transcriptional regulation; and (3) the structures of the giant RNA polymerase II transcription initiation and elongation complexes.2002Harden McConnellUniversidade StanfordFor his thorough understanding of magnetic resonance and its use in achieving greater insight into chemical systems including reaction dynamics, magnetic resonance imaging and membrane phenomenon.2003Ronald BreslowUniversidade ColumbiaFor his pioneering contributions to the field of biomimetic chemistry and catalysis by design.2004Allen Joseph BardUniversidade do Texas em AustinFor his major accomplishments in the field of electrochemistry and the effect of these on the discipline of chemistry itself.2005George WhitesidesUniversidade HarvardFor the breadth and depth of his insight into chemical processes and his astute use of this understanding in approaching and solving many difficult problems in organic chemistry, biochemistry, biology, material science and surface science.2006Daniel Edward KoshlandUniversidade da Califórnia em BerkeleyFor his consistent and highly effective use of basic chemical principles to bring to greater clarity chemical processes in complex biological systems.2007William Hughes MillerUniversidade da Califórnia em BerkeleyFor pioneering development of the modern theory of chemical reaction dynamics and rates.2007Noel HushUniversidade de SydneyFor fundamental work on the theory of homogeneous and heterogeneous electron transfer and contributions in the area of molecular electronics.2008Alexander RichInstituto de Tecnologia de MassachusettsFor outstanding contributions to the understanding of the chemical and biochemical mechanisms in maintaining a living cell.2009Harry Barkus GrayInstituto de Tecnologia da CalifórniaFor definitive contributions to the field of inorganic chemistry.2010JoAnne StubbeInstituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts;Christopher Thomas Walsh, Harvard Medical SchoolFor their insights into the chemistry of enzymes in biological systems.2011John WaughInstituto de Tecnologia de MassachusettsFor ground-breaking research in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.2012David A. EvansUniversidade HarvardFor his contributions to organic reaction design, in particular stereocontrol in carbon-carbon bond formation, which advanced the field of complex molecule synthesis.2013Louis BrusUniversidade ColumbiaFor creating the field of colloidal quantum dots (semiconductor nanocrystals).2014Robert G. BergmanUniversidade da Califórnia em BerkeleyFor pioneering work in alkane activation and mechanisms of organometallic reactions.2015Stephen Coplan HarrisonHarvard Medical SchoolFor outstanding contributions to the x-ray crystallography of viruses and protein nucleic aid complexes.2016Richard Hadley HolmUniversidade Harvard;Stephen LippardInstituto de Tecnologia de MassachusettsFor their important research contributions in the fields of inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry.2017 John Bannister GoodenoughUniversidade do Texas em Austin
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