Past Recipients of the Harrison Howe Award

Note: The date in parentheses designates the year that the Harrison Howe Awardee received the Nobel Prize. Following the link for a Nobel Laureate will bring you to their entry at the official website of the Nobel Prize.


1945 Linus Pauling (1954 Chemistry, 1962 Peace)

1946 Glenn Seaborg (1951 Chemistry)

1947 Gerty Cori (1947 Medicine)

1947 Carl Cori (1947 Medicine)

1948 Herman Mark

1949 Karl Folkers

1950 Robert Woodward (1965 Chemistry)

1951 Paul Bartlett

1952 Melvin Calvin (1961 Chemistry)

1953 Herbert Brown (1979 Chemistry)

1954 Frank Westheimer

1955 Paul Flory (1974 Chemistry)

1956 Vernon Cheldelin

1957 John Roberts

1958 William Lipscomb (1976 Chemistry)

1959 Paul Doty

1960 Henry Taube (1983 Chemistry)

1961 Michael Dewar

1962 Gilbert Stork

1963 Charles Townes (1964 Physics)

1964 Marshall Nirenberg (1968 Medicine)

1965 Manfred Eigen (1967 Chemistry)

1966 Britton Chance

1967 Martin Karplus

1968 Harden McConnell

1969 Roald Hoffmann (1981 Chemistry)

1970 Elias J. Corey (1990 Chemistry)

1971 John Pople (1998 Chemistry)

1972 Harry Gray

1973 Kai Siegbahn (1981 Physics)

1973 David Turner

1974 Ronald Breslow

1975 F. Albert Cotton

1976 John Brauman

1977 Richard Holm

1978 Walter Gilbert (1980 Chemistry)

1979 George Whitesides

1980 Alan Bard

1981 Yoshito Kishi

1982 Pierre-Gilles De Gennes (1991 Physics)

1983 Yuan Lee (1986 Chemistry)

1984 Thomas Cech (1989 Chemistry)

1985 Richard Zare

1986 Nicholas Turro

1987 K. Barry Sharpless (2001 Chemistry)

1988 Peter Dervan

1989 Ahmed Zewail (1999 Chemistry)

1990 Richard Schrock (2005 Chemistry)

1991 Alexander Pines

1992 Richard Saykally

1993 Peter Schultz

1994 Richard Smalley (1996 Chemistry)

1995 Stuart Schreiber

1996 David Tirrell

1997 Jeremy Berg

1998 Chi-Huey Wong

1999 Graham Fleming

2000 J. Craig Venter

2001 Robert Langer

2002 Charles Lieber

2003 Jack Szostak (2009 Medicine)

2004 Michael Marletta

2005 Laura Kiessling

2008 Daniel G. Nocera

2009 Carolyn R. Bertozzi

2011 Joseph DeSimone

2012 Xiaoliang Sunney Xie

2015 David W.C. MacMillan

2018 Chad Mirkin

2020 Wilfred van der Donk


Some interesting statistics...

  • There have been 69 Harrison Howe Award winners as of 2020.
  • Twenty-six Harrison Howe winners subsequently won a Nobel Prize (39%).
  • The average time between a Harrison Howe Award and a Nobel Prize is 9.2 years.
  • Three months was the shortest time between a Harrison Howe Award and a Nobel Prize (Gerty and Carl Cori).
  • The longest time between a Harrison Howe Award and a Nobel Prize was 27 years (John Pople).
  • The average Harrison Howe winner is 43 years old.
  • There have been three female Harrison Howe awardees (Cori [1947], Kiessling [2005], Bertozzi [2009]).