In addition, several of our members and colleagues have been honored with some of the most prestigious scientific awards in the world:

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Winners of the Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry*

2008	William F. DeGrado	University of Pennsylvania
2007	Samuel H. Gellman	University of Wisconsin - Madison
2006	George Barany	University of Minnesota
2005	James P. Tam	Scripps Research Institute - Florida
2004	Richard A. Houghten	Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies
2003	Roger M. Freidinger	Merck Research Laboratories
2002	Victor J. Hruby	Tucson University
2001	Daniel F. Veber	SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals
2000	Daniel S. Kemp	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1999	Harold A. Scheraga	Cornell University
1998	Isabella L. Karle	Naval Researech Laboratory
1997	Murray Goodman	University of California-San Diego
1996	Steven G. Clarke	University of California-Los Angeles
1995	Shumpei Sakakibara	Peptide Research Institute, Inc.
1994	Steven B.H. Kent	Scripps Research Institute
1993	Daniel H. Rich	University of Wisconsin-Madison
1992	Louis A. Carpino	University of Massachusetts-Amherst
1991	Elkan R. Blout	Harvard Medical School
1990	Bruce Merrifield	The Rockefeller University

* Established in 1988 by Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories

The National Medal of Science

The 2000 National Medal of Science was awarded to Dr. Ralph F. Hirschmann "for his seminal contributions to organic and to medicinal chemistry." The 1995 National Medal of Science was awarded to Dr. Isabella Karle in recognition of her contributions to the "development and application of a method [symbolic addition procedure] for determining essentially equal-atom crystal and molecular structures by X-ray analysis." For further information on this award, please visit the National Science and Technology Medals Foundation.

The Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to both Vincent du Vigneaud (1955) and R. Bruce Merrifield (1984) for their respective contributions to the chemistry of peptides, allowing them to take their rightful place among the greatest chemists of this century. For further information on this award, please visit the Nobel Prize website.