Herman Pines Award in Catalysis — Solicitation for Nominations

The Catal­y­sis Club of Chica­go is solic­it­ing nom­i­na­tions for the Her­man Pines Award for out­stand­ing research in the field of catal­y­sis. Her­man Pines was an out­stand­ing research sci­en­tist, and his work rev­o­lu­tion­ized the gen­er­al under­stand­ing of organ­ic chem­istry, par­tic­u­lar­ly the chem­istry of hydro­car­bons inter­act­ing with strong acids. The award in his hon­or is spon­sored by UOP where Her­man began his indus­tri­al career in 1930 and amassed 145 US patents over a 23 year peri­od. The award is being co-spon­sored by the Catal­y­sis Club of Chica­go of which Pro­fes­sor Pines was a found­ing mem­ber. The award will be pre­sent­ed at the 2007 Spring Sym­po­sium of the Catal­y­sis Club of Chica­go. The recip­i­ent will receive a cash award of $1,000 and reim­burse­ment for trav­el and lodg­ing as a ple­nary speak­er at the Spring Sym­po­sium.

Table of Con­tents

Past winners of the Herman Pines Award

  • 1999 — Pro­fes­sor Harold Kung (North­west­ern Uni­ver­si­ty)
  • 2000 — Dr. John Mon­nier (East­man Chem­i­cal Com­pa­ny)
  • 2001 — Pro­fes­sor Lan­ny Schmidt (Uni­ver­si­ty of Min­neso­ta)
  • 2002 — Dr. James Brazdil (BP)
  • 2003 — Pro­fes­sor James A. Dumesic (Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin)
  • 2004 — Dr. Alak Bhat­tacharyya (BP)
  • 2005 — Pro­fes­sor Israel Wachs (Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty)
  • 2006 — Dr. Jef­frey T. Miller (BP)

The recip­i­ent will be cho­sen based on the fol­low­ing cri­te­ria:

  • Impor­tance of catal­y­sis research com­plet­ed in the past five years.
  • Alter­na­tion of the award between indus­tri­al and academic/national lab­o­ra­to­ry research­es. For year 2007, nom­i­na­tions for can­di­dates from either an ACADEMIC or NATIONAL LABORATORY RESEARCHER are sought.
  • Recip­i­ent must be a res­i­dent of North Amer­i­ca

Award

  • $1,000 and travel/lodging as a ple­nary speak­er at the Spring Sym­po­sium.

Deadline for Nomination

  • Jan­u­ary 31, 2007
  • Nom­i­na­tions should describe the spe­cif­ic work per­formed in the last 5 years for which the nom­i­nee should be rec­og­nized.

Date of Announcement

  • Novem­ber 2006

Nom­i­na­tions should be e-mailed (sin­gle PDF doc­u­ment) on or before Jan­u­ary 31, 2007 to:

Christo­pher L. Mar­shall
Pres­i­dent-Catal­y­sis Club of Chica­go
Chem­i­cal Engi­neer­ing Divi­sion
Argonne Nation­al Lab­o­ra­to­ry
9700 South Cass Avenue
Argonne, IL 60565
(630)252‑4310
CLMarshall@​anl.​gov