The organic division congratulates all the 2026 ACS National Awardees. The Division of Organic Chemistry is excited to host the following 13 Award symposia in the ORGN program at the Spring 2026 ACS meeting in addition to the annual Cope and Cope Scholar symposium at the Fall 2026 ACS meeting
ACS Award for Affordable Green Chemistry – Frank Bernardoni, Patrick S. Fier, and John A. McIntosh, Merck & Co.
ACS Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution – Adam R. Urbach, Trinity University
ACS Award for Team Innovation – Stephen M. Dalby, Daniel A. DiRocco, Adam J. Fine, Rekha Gangam, Wenjun Liu, and Jonathan McMullen, Merck & Co.
ACS Award in Pure Chemistry – Phillip J. Milner, Cornell University
David A. Evans Award for the Advancement and Education of Organic Synthesis – Tehshik P. Yoon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Original Contributions in Organic Synthesis by a Young Investigator – David Sarlah, Rice University
Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products – Brian M. Stoltz, California Institute of Technology
Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis – Scott J. Miller, Yale University
George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry – Marina A. Petrukhina, University at Albany
Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods – Christina White, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry – James M. Mayer, Yale University
Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry – Jonas Rein (student), Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Song Lin (preceptor), Cornell University
Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry – David A. Leigh, University of Manchester
Arthur C. Cope Award – Gregory C. Fu, California Institute of Technology
Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award – Lutz Ackermann, Woehler Research Institute for Sustainable Chemistry; Alexander Deiters, University of Pittsburgh; Darren J. Dixon, University of Oxford; Ang Li, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry; Alexander T. Radosevich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sophie A. L. Rousseaux, University of Toronto; Mark E. Thompson, University of Southern California; Christopher Uyeda, Purdue University; Alison E. Wendlandt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Michael C. Willis, University of Oxford
All 2026 ACS awardees can be found in the following C&EN article.
Nominations for 2027 ACS National Awards close on 1 November, 2025
For more information see: The Organic Division’s page on ACS Awards to recognize organic chemists: https://www.organicdivision.org/organicawards/ or the ACS Awards Page.