Biografia

Studiò a Berlino nel Kaiser Wilhelm Institut e alla Harvard University. È noto principalmente per aver sviluppato il catalizzatore di Adams, usato per reazioni di idrogenazione, idrogenolisi, deidrogenazione e ossidazione.

Allievo di Theodore William Richards, è stato professore dal 1919 al 1957 all'Università dell'Illinois (Urbana-Champaign).

Fu capo della missione scientifica consultiva del governo militare in Giappone nel 1947 e membro onorario di varie accademie di chimica straniere.

Svolse importanti ricerche di chimica organica: intermedi per coloranti, anestetici, composti arsenicali, succedanei di olii essenziali. È noto specialmente per aver preparato un catalizzatore di idrogenazione a base di platino e palladio di largo impiego in chimica organica. Diresse la pubblicazione Organic reactions nel 1941 e fu autore dell'opera Organic synthesis, pubblicata in vari volumi nel 1929.

Bibliografia

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D. Stanley Tarbell and Ann Tracy Tarbell, Roger Adams January 2, 1889-July 6, 1971, in Biographical Memoirs ed. National Academy Of Sciences, National Academies Press (December 1, 1982), ISBN 0-309-03287-3
The Essex Antiquarian, published by The Essex antiquarian
Dictionary of Scientific Biography: 1970-1990, Charles Scribner's Sons; vol. 15, p1-3.
Journal of Chemistry 1979, 56, 163-165.
Journal of the American Chemical Society 1969, 91, a-d.
Proceedings of the Welch Foundation Conference 1977, 20, 204-228.
D. S. Tarbell, A. T. Roger Adams Scientist and Statesman, American Chemical Society: 1981.
D. S. Tarbell, Ann T. Tarbell e R. M. Joyce, The Students of Ira Remsen and Roger Adams, in Isis, vol. 71, n. 4, 1980, pp. 620–626, DOI:10.1086/352596, JSTOR 230504.
American Philosophical Society Yearbook 1974, pp. 111–114.
National Cyclopedia of American Biography: 1921-1984, James T. White & Co., vol. G, p336-337.
McGraw Hill Modern Men of Science, McGraw-Hill (1966) vol. 1, p4-5
The Hexagon 1979, 70, 9-17.
American Chemists and Chemical Engineers, Miles, W. D., Ed., American Chemical Society (1976) p4-5.
Ronald E. Doel, Roger Adams: Linking University Science with Policy on the World Stage, Chapter 9 of No Boundaries ed. Lillian Hoddeson, University of Illinois Press (May 1, 2004) ISBN 0-252-02957-7

Opere

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Organic synthesis

Altri progetti

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Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su Roger Adams

Collegamenti esterni

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Adams, Roger, su sapere.it, De Agostini.
(EN) Roger Adams, su Enciclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
(EN) Opere di Roger Adams, su Open Library, Internet Archive.
(EN) Audiolibri di Roger Adams, su LibriVox.

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Vincitori Medaglia Davy 1901-1950 (Royal Society)

George Downing Living (1901) · Svante Arrhenius (1902) · Pierre Curie / Marie Curie (1903) · William Henry Perkin, Jr. (1904) · Albert Ladenburg (1905) · Rudolph Fittig (1906) · Edward Morley (1907) · William A. Tilden (1908) · James Dewar (1909) · Theodore William Richards (1910) · Henry Edward Armstrong (1911) · Otto Wallach (1912) · Raphael Meldola (1913) · William Jackson Pope (1914) · Paul Sabatier (1915) · Henri Le Châtelier (1916) · Albin Haller (1917) · F. Stanley Kipping (1918) · Percy Frankland (1919) · Charles T Heycock (1920) · Philippe Guye (1921) · Jocelyn Field Thorpe (1922) · Herbert Brereton Baker (1923) · Arthur George Perkin (1924) · James Irvine (1925) · James Walker (1926) · Arthur Amos Noyes (1927) · Frederick George Donnan (1928) · Gilbert Lewis (1929) · Robert Robinson (1930) · Arthur Lapworth (1931) · Richard Martin Willstätter (1932) · William Hobson Mills (1933) · Walter Norman Haworth (1934) · Arthur Harden (1935) · William Arthur Bone (1936) · Hans Fischer (1937) · George Barger (1938) · James William McBain (1939) · Harold Urey (1940) · Henry Drysdale Dakin (1941) · Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1942) · Ian Morris Heilbron (1943) · Robert Robertson (1944) · Roger Adams (1945) · Christopher Ingold (1946) · Linus Pauling (1947) · Edmund Langley Hirst (1948) · Alexander Robertus Todd (1949) · John Simonsen (1950)

1877-1900 · 1901-1950 · 1951-2000 · 2001-2024

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Vincitori della Medaglia Priestley (ACS)

Ira Remsen (1923) • Edgar Fahs Smith (1926) • Francis P. Garvan (1929) • Charles Lathrop Parsons (1932) • William A. Noyes (1935) Marston T. Bogert (1938) • Thomas Midgley (1941) • James Bryant Conant (1944) • Ian Morris Heilbron (1945) • Roger Adams (1946) • Warren K. Lewis (1947) • Edward R. Weidlein (1948) • Arthur B. Lamb (1949) • Charles August Kraus (1950) • Evan J. Crane (1951) • Samuel C. Lind (1952) • Robert Robinson (1953) • W. Albert Noyes, Jr. (1954) • Charles A. Thomas (1955) • Carl S. Marvel (1956) • Farrington Daniels (1957) • Ernest H. Volwiler (1958) • Hermann Irving Schlesinger (1959) • Wallace Reed Brode (1960) • Louis Plack Hammett (1961) • Joel Henry Hildebrand (1962) • Peter Debye (1963) • John C. Bailar Jr. (1964) • William J. Sparks (1965) • William O. Baker (1966) • Ralph Connor (1967) • William G. Young (1968) • Kenneth S. Pitzer (1969) • Max Tishler (1970) • Frederick Rossini (1971) • George B. Kistiakowsky (1972) • Harold Urey (1973) • Paul Flory (1974) • Henry Eyring (1975) • George S. Hammond (1976) • Henry Gilman (1977) • Melvin Calvin (1978) • Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1979) • Milton Harris (1980) • Herbert Brown (1981) • Bryce Crawford, Jr. (1982) • Robert Mulliken (1983) • Linus Pauling (1984) • Henry Taube (1985) • Karl August Folkers (1986) • John D. Roberts (1987) • Frank H. Westheimer (1988) • George C. Pimentel (1989) • Roald Hoffmann (1990) • Harry B. Gray (1991) • Carl Djerassi (1992) • Robert W. Parry (1993) • Howard E. Simmons (1994) • Derek Harold Richard Barton (1995) • Ernest L. Eliel (1996) • Mary L. Good (1997) • Frank Albert Cotton (1998) • Ronald Breslow (1999) • Darleane C. Hoffman (2000) • Fred Basolo (2001) • Allen Bard (2002) • Edwin J. Vandenberg (2003) • Elias J. Corey (2004) • George A. Olah (2005) • Paul S. Anderson (2006) • George M. Whitesides (2007) • Gábor Arpad Somorjai (2008) • Frederick Hawthorne (2009) • Richard Zare (2010) • Ahmed H. Zewail (2011) • Robert S. Langer (2012) • Peter J. Stang (2013) • Stephen J. Lippard (2014) • Jacqueline Barton (2015) • Mostafa El-Sayed (2016) • Tobin J. Marks (2017) • Geraldine L. Richmond (2018) • Barry Sharpless (2019)

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Vincitori del Premio Willard Gibbs (ACS)

Svante Arrhenius (1911) • Theodore William Richards (1912) • Leo Baekeland (1913) • Ira Remsen (1914) • Arthur Amos Noyes (1915) • Willis R. Whitney (1916) • Edward Morley (1917) • William Merriam Burton (1918) • William A. Noyes (1919) • Frederick Gardner Cottrell (1920) • Marie Curie (1921) • Julius Stieglitz (1923) • Gilbert Lewis (1924) • Moses Gomberg (1925) • James Colquhoun Irvine (1926) • John Jacob Abel (1927) • William Draper Harkins (1928) • Claude Silbert Hudson (1929) • Irving Langmuir (1930) • Phoebus Levene (1931) • Edward Curtis Franklin (1932) • Richard Martin Willstätter (1933) • Harold Urey (1934) • Charles August Kraus (1935) • Roger Adams (1936) • Herbert Newby McCoy (1937) • Robert R. Williams (1938) • Donald Dexter Van Slyke (1939) • Vladimir Ipatieff (1940) • Edward Adelbert Doisy (1941) • Thomas Midgley (1942) • Conrad Arnold Elvehjem (1943) • George O. Curme, Jr. (1944) • Frank C. Whitmore (1945) • Linus Pauling (1946) • Wendell Meredith Stanley (1947) • Carl F. Cori (1948) • Peter Debye (1949) • Carl S. Marvel (1950) William Francis Giauque (1951) William C. Rose (1952) • Joel Henry Hildebrand (1953) • Elmer K. Bolton (1954) • Farrington Daniels (1955) • Vincent du Vigneaud (1956) • W. Albert Noyes, Jr. (1957) • Willard Frank Libby (1958) • Hermann Irving Schlesinger (1959) • George B. Kistiakowsky (1960) • Louis Plack Hammett (1961) • Lars Onsager (1962) • Paul Doughty Bartlett (1963) • Izaak M. Kolthoff (1964) • Robert Mulliken (1965) • Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1966) • Robert Burns Woodward (1967) • Henry Eyring (1968) • Gerhard Herzberg (1969) • Frank H. Westheimer (1970) • Henry Taube (1971) • John T. Edsall (1972) • Paul Flory (1973) • Har Gobind Khorana (1974) • Herman F. Mark (1975) • Kenneth S. Pitzer (1976) • Melvin Calvin (1977) • William O. Baker (1978) • Edgar Bright Wilson (1979) • Frank Albert Cotton (1980) • Bert Lester Vallee (1981) • Gilbert Stork (1982) • John D. Roberts (1983) • Elias James Corey (1984) • Donald James Cram (1985) • Jack Halpern (1986) • Allen Bard (1987) • Rudolph Marcus (1988) • Richard Barry Bernstein (1989) • Richard Zare (1990) • Günther Wilke (1991) • Harry B. Gray (1992) • Peter B. Dervan (1993) • Frederick Hawthorne (1994) • John Meurig Thomas (1995) • Fred Basolo (1996) • Carl Djerassi (1997) • Mario Molina (1998) • Lawrence F. Dahl (1999) • Nicholas Turro (2000) • Tobin J. Marks (2001) • Ralph Hirschmann (2002) • John I. Brauman (2003) • Ronald Breslow (2004) • David A. Evans (2005) • Jacqueline K. Barton (2006) • Sylvia T. Ceyer (2007) • Carolyn R. Bertozzi (2008) • Louis Brus (2009) • Maurice Brookhart (2010) • Robert G. Bergman (2011) • Mark Ratner (2012) • Charles M. Lieber (2013) • John E. Bercaw (2014) • John F. Hartwig (2015) • Laura L. Kiessling (2016) • Judith Klinman (2017) • Cynthia Burrows (2018) • Marcetta Y. Darensbourg (2019)

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Vincitori della medaglia Perkin

William Henry Perkin (1906) • J. B. F. Herreshoff (1908) • Arno Behr (1909) • Edward G. Acheson (1910) • Charles Martin Hall (1911) • Herman Frasch (1912) • James Gayley (1913) • John W. Hyatt (1914) • Edward Weston (1915) • Leo Baekeland (1916) • Ernst Twitchell (1917) • Auguste J. Rossi (1918) • Frederick G. Cottrell (1919) • Charles F. Chandler (1920) • Willis Rodney Whitney (1921) • William Merriam Burton (1922) • Milton C. Whitaker (1923) • Frederick Mark Becket (1924) • Hugh K. Moore (1925) • Richard B. Moore (1926) • John E. Teeple (1927) • Irving Langmuir (1928) • Eugene C. Sullivan (1929) • Herbert H. Dow (1930) • Arthur Dehon Little (1931) • Charles F. Burgess (1932) • George Oenslager (1933) • Colin G. Fink (1934) • George O. Curme, Jr. (1935) • Warren K. Lewis (1936) • Thomas Midgley, Jr. (1937) • Frank J. Tone (1938) • Walter S. Landis (1939) • Charles Stine (1940) • John V. N. Dorr (1941) • Martin Ittner (1942) • Robert E. Wilson (1943) • Gaston F. Dubois (1944) • Elmer Keiser Bolton (1945) • Francis C. Frary (1946) • Robert R. Williams (1947) • Clarence W. Balke (1948) • Carl S. Miner (1949) • Eger V. Murphree (1950) • Henry Howard (1951) • Robert M. Burns (1952) • Charles A. Thomas (1953) • Roger Adams (1954) • Roger Williams (1955) • Edgar C. Britton (1956) • Glenn T. Seaborg (1957) • William Justin Kroll (1958) • Eugène J. Houdry (1959) • Karl August Folkers (1960) • Carl F. Prutton (1961) • Eugene G. Rochow (1962) • William O. Baker (1963) • William J. Sparks (1964) • Carl S. Marvel (1965) • Manson Benedict (1966) • Vladimir Haensel (1967) • Henry B. Hass (1968) • Robert W. Cairns (1969) • Milton Harris (1970) • James F. Hyde (1971) • Robert Burns MacMullin (1972) • Theodore L. Cairns (1973) • Edwin H. Land (1974) • Carl Djerassi (1975) • Lewis H. Sarett (1976) • Paul J. Flory (1977) • Donald Othmer (1978) • James D. Idol Jr. (1979) • Herman F. Mark (1980) • Ralph Landau (1981) • Herbert C. Brown (1982) • Norman Bruce Hannay (1983) • John H. Sinfelt (1984) • Paul B. Weisz (1985) • Peter Regna (1986) • John Paul Hogan, Robert Banks (1987) • James F. Roth (1988) • Frederick J. Karol (1989) • John E. Franz (1990) • Miguel A. Ondetti (1991) • Edith M. Flanigen (1992) • Lubomyr T. Romankiw (1993) • Marinus Los (1994) • Delbert H. Meyer (1995) • Marion D. Francis (1996) • Stephanie Louise Kwolek (1997) • David R. Bryant (1998) • Albert A. Carr (1999) • Norman N. Li (2000) • Elsa Reichmanis (2001) • Paul S. Anderson (2002) • William H. Joyce (2003) • Gordon E. Moore (2004) • Robert W. Gore (2005) • James C. Stevens (2006) • Herbert Boyer (2007) • Ian Shankland (2008) • Richard Bruce Silverman (2009) • Ronald Breslow (2010)

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Vincitori della Medaglia d'oro dell'American Institute of Chemists

William Blum (1926) • Lafayette B. Mendel (1927) • Francis P. Garvan (1929) • George Eastman (1930) • Andrew Mellon, Richard B. Mellon (1931) • Charles H. Herty (1932) • Henry C. Sherman (1933) • James Bryant Conant (1934) • Marston Taylor Bogert (1936) • James F. Norris (1937) • Frederick G. Cottrell (1938) • Gustav Egloff (1940) • Henry G. Knight (1941) • William Lloyd Evans (1942) • Walter S. Landis (1943) • Willard H. Dow (1944) • John W. Thomas (1945) • Robert Price Russell (1946) • Moses Leverock Crossley (1947) • Charles A. Thomas (1948) • Warren K. Lewis (1949) • Walter J. Murphy (1950) • Harry N. Holmes (1951) • Fred J. Emmerich (1952) • J. C. Warner (1953) • William J. Sparks (1954) • Carl S. Marvel (1955) • Raymond Stevens (1956) • Roy Newton (1957) • Lawrence Flett (1958) • Crawford H. Greenewalt (1959) • Ernest H. Volwiler (1960) • Alden H. Emery (1961) • George W. Parks (1962) • Ralph Connor (1963) • Roger Adams (1964) • Edwin Cox (1965) • John H. Nair (1966) • Wayne E. Kuhn (1967) • Orville E. May (1968) • Henry B. Hass (1969) • Willard Frank Libby (1970) • Emmett B. Carmichael (1971) • Harold Urey (1972) • Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1973) • William Edward Hanford (1974) • William O. Baker (1975) • Kenneth S. Pitzer (1976) • Max Tishler (1977) • Norman Hackerman (1978) • Melvin Calvin (1979) • Arthur M. Bueche (1980) • Lewis Hastings Sarett (1981) • Milton Harris (1982) • Mary L. Good (1983) • John H. Sinfelt (1984) • Herbert Brown (1985) • Norman Bruce Hannay (1986) • Arnold O. Beckman (1987) • George C. Pimentel (1988) • Elias James Corey (1989) • Harry B. Gray (1990) • Bruce N. Ames (1991) • Roy L. Whistler (1992) • Fred Basolo (1993) • Arthur Adamson (1994) • George Parshall (1995) • Harry Drickman (1996) • Alfred Bader (1997) • Frank Albert Cotton (1998) • Yie W. Chien (2000) • Tobin Marks (2002) • Ralph Hirschmann (2003) • Carl Djerassi (2004) • Robert L. McNeil (2005) • Roald Hoffmann (2006) • George M. Whitesides (2007) • Paul Berg (2008) • Oliver Smithies (2009) • Robert Grubbs (2010) • Dudley Herschbach (2011) • Elizabeth Blackburn (2012) • John D. Roberts (2013) • Ronald Breslow (2014) • Jacqueline Barton (2015) • Chad Mirkin (2016) • Stephen J. Lippard (2017) • Edmond Gerald Meyer (2018) • Henry Frederick Schaefer (2019) • Peter J. Stang (2020)

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Vincitori della National Medal of Science per la chimica

Roger Adams (1964) · Frank Albert Cotton, Gilbert Stork (1982) · Roald Hoffmann, George C. Pimentel, Richard Zare (1983) · Harry B. Gray, Yuan T. Lee, Carl S. Marvel, Frank H. Westheimer (1986) · William S. Johnson, Walter H. Stockmayer, Max Tishler (1987) · William O. Baker, Konrad Emil Bloch, Elias James Corey (1988) · Richard B. Bernstein, Melvin Calvin, Rudoph A. Marcus, Harden M. McConnell (1989) · Elkan Blout, Karl August Folkers, John D. Roberts (1990) · Ronald Breslow, Gertrude B. Elion, Dudley Herschbach, Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1991) · Howard Ensign Simmons Jr. (1992) · Donald J. Cram, Norman Hackerman (1993) · George S. Hammond (1994) · Thomas Cech, Isabella L. Karle (1995) · Norman Davidson (1996) · Darleane C. Hoffman, Harold S. Johnston (1997) · John W. Cahn, George M. Whitesides (1998) · Stuart A. Rice, John Ross, Susan Solomon (1999) · John D. Baldeschwieler, Ralph F. Hirschmann (2000) · Ernest R. Davidson, Gábor Arpad Somorjai (2001) · John I. Brauman (2002) · Stephen J. Lippard (2004) · Tobin J. Marks 2005) · Marvin H. Caruthers, Peter B. Dervan (2006) · Mostafa A. El-Sayed (2007) · Joanna S. Fowler, JoAnne Stubbe (2008) · Stephen J. Benkovic, Marye Anne Fox (2009) · Jacqueline K. Barton, Peter J. Stang (2010) · Allen Bard, Frederick Hawthorne (2011) · Judith P. Klinman, Jerrold Meinwald (2012) · Geraldine L. Richmond (2013) · Paul Alivisatos (2014)

V · D · M Presidenti dell'American Chemical Society
1876–1900	John W. Draper (1876) · J. Lawrence Smith (1877) · Samuel W. Johnson (1878) · T. Sterry Hunt (1879) · Frederick A. Genth (1880) · Charles F. Chandler (1881) · John W. Mallet (1882) · James C. Booth (1883) · Albert B. Prescott (1886) · Charles Anthony Goessmann (1887) · T. Sterry Hunt (1888) · Charles F. Chandler (1889) · Henry B. Nason (1890) · George F. Barker (1891) · George C. Caldwell (1892) · Harvey W. Wiley (1893) · Edgar Fahs Smith (1895) · Charles B. Dudley (1896) · Charles E. Munroe (1898) · Edward W. Morley (1899) · William McMurtrie (1900)
1901–1925	Frank W. Clarke (1901) · Ira Remsen (1902) · John H. Long (1903) · Arthur Amos Noyes (1904) · Francis P. Venable (1905) · William F. Hillebrand (1906) · Marston T. Bogert (1907) · Willis R. Whitney (1909) · Wilder D. Bancroft (1910) · Alexander Smith (1911) · Arthur Dehon Little (1912) · Theodore W. Richards (1914) · Charles H. Herty (1915) · Julius Stieglitz (1917) · William H. Nichols (1918) · William A. Noyes (1920) · Edgar Fahs Smith (1921) · Edward C. Franklin (1923) · Leo H. Baekeland (1924) · James Flack Norris (1925)
1926–1950	George D. Rosengarten (1927) · Samuel W. Parr (1928) · Irving Langmuir (1929) · William McPherson (1930) · Moses Gomberg (1931) · L.V. Redman (1932) · Arthur B. Lamb (1933) · Charles L. Reese (1934) · Roger Adams (1935) · Edward Bartow (1936) · Edward R. Weidlein (1937) · Frank C. Whitmore (1938) · Charles A. Kraus (1939) · Samuel C. Lind (1940) · William Lloyd Evans (1941) · Harry N. Holmes (1942) · Per K. Frolich (1943) · Thomas Midgley Jr. (1944) · Carl S. Marvel (1945) · Bradley Dewey (1946) · W. Albert Noyes Jr. (1947) · Charles A. Thomas (1948) · Linus Pauling (1949) · Ernest H. Volwiler (1950)
1951–1975	N. Howell Funnan (1951) · Edgar C. Britton (1952) · Farrington Daniels (1953) · Harry L. Fisher (1954) · Joel H. Hildebrand (1955) · John C. Warner (1956) · Roger J. Williams (1957) · Clifford F. Rassweiler (1958) · John C. Bailar Jr. (1959) · Albert L. Elder (1960) · Arthur C. Cope (1961) · Karl Folkers (1962) · Henry Eyring (1963) · Maurice H. Arveson (1964) · Charles C. Price (1965) · William J. Sparks (1966) · Charles G. Overberger (1967) · Robert W. Cairns (1968) · Wallace R. Brode (1969) · Byron Riegel (1970) · Melvin Calvin (1971) · Max Tishler (1972) · Alan C. Nixon (1973) · Bernard S. Friedman (1974) · William J. Bailey (1975)
1976–2000	Glenn T. Seaborg (1976) · Henry A. Hill (1977) · Anna J. Harrison (1978) · Gardner W. Stacy (1979) · James D. D'Ianni (1980) · Albert C. Zettlemoyer (1981) · Robert W. Parry (1982) · Fred Basolo (1983) · Warren D. Niederhauser (1984) · Ellis K. Fields (1985) · George C. Pimentel (1986) · Mary L. Good (1987) · Gordon L. Nelson (1988) · Clayton F. Callis (1989) · Paul G. Gassman (1990) · S. Allen Heininger (1991) · Ernest L. Eliel (1992) · Helen M. Free (1993) · Ned D. Heindel (1994) · Brian M. Rushton (1995) · Ronald Breslow (1996) · Paul S. Anderson (1997) · Paul H.L. Walter (1998) · Edel Wasserman (1999) · Daryle H. Busch (2000)
2001–presente	Attila E. Pavlath (2001) · Eli M. Pearce (2002) · Elsa Reichmanis (2003) · Charles P. Casey (2004) · William F. Carroll Jr. (2005) · Elizabeth Ann Nalley (2006) · Catherine T. Hunt (2007) · Bruce E. Bursten (2008) · Thomas H. Lane (2009) · Joseph Francisco (2010) · Nancy B. Jackson (2011) · Bassam Z. Shakhashiri (2012) · Marinda Li Wu (2013) · Thomas J. Barton (2014) · Diane Grob Schmidt (2015) · Donna J. Nelson (2016) · Allison A. Campbell (2017) · Peter K. Dorhout (2018) · Bonnie A. Charpentier (2019) · Luis Echegoyen (2020)

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