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The Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics is awarded annually, in even years by the American Chemical Society and in odd years by the American Physical Society. The award is meant to recognize and encourage outstanding interdisciplinary research in chemistry and physics, in the spirit of Irving Langmuir. A nominee must have made an outstanding contribution to chemical physics or physical chemistry within the 10 years preceding the year in which the award is made. The award will be granted without restriction, except that the recipient must be a resident of the United States.

The award was established in 1931 by Dr. A.C. Langmuir, brother of Nobel Prize-winning chemist Irving Langmuir, to recognize the best young chemist in the United States. A $10,000 prize was to be awarded annually by the American Chemical Society. The first recipient was Linus Pauling.^[1] In 1964, the General Electric Foundation took over the financial backing of the prize, which was renamed the Irving Langmuir Award and the modern selection process was created. In 2006 the GE Global Research took over sponsorship of the award, and since 2009 the award has been co-sponsored between GE Global Research and the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry.^[2]

Past recipients

Source: American Physical Society and American Chemical Society

2024 David Beratan
2023 Valeria Molinero
2022 Heather C. Allen
2021 Jacob Klein
2019 Devarajan (Dave) Thirumalai
2017 Emily A. Carter
2016 George C. Schatz
2015 Jens K. Norskov
2014 Mark A. Johnson
2013 Wilson Ho [Wikidata]^[3]
2012 James L. Skinner^[4]
2011 Stephen Leone
2010 A. Welford Castleman Jr.
2009 William E. Moerner
2008 Daniel M. Neumark
2007 Gabor A. Somorjai
2006 F. Fleming Crim, Jr. [Wikidata]^[5]
2005 David Chandler
2004 Mark A. Ratner
2003 Phaedon Avouris
2002 Mostafa A. El-Sayed
2001 Louis E. Brus
2000 Richard J. Saykally
1999 Daniel Kivelson [de]
1998 Alexander Pines
1997 Jack H. Freed
1996 William Carl Lineberger
1995 George B. Benedek
1994 Robert G. Parr
1993 J. David Litster [Wikidata]^[6]
1992 John Ross
1991 Richard E. Smalley
1990 William H. Miller
1989 Frank H. Stillinger
1988 Richard B. Bernstein
1987 Martin Karplus
1986 Sidney W. Benson [Wikidata]
1985 Richard N. Zare
1984 Robert W. Zwanzig
1983 Dudley R. Herschbach
1982 Benjamin Widom
1981 Willis H. Flygare
1980 William A. Klemperer
1979 Donald S. McClure [Wikidata]
1978 Rudolph A. Marcus
1977 Aneesur Rahman
1976 John S. Waugh
1975 Robert H. Cole [Wikidata]^[7]
1974 Harry G. Drickamer
1973 Peter M. Rentzepis
1972 Harden M. McConnell
1971 Michael E. Fisher
1970 John A. Pople
1969 Charles P. Slichter
1968 Henry Eyring
1967 John C. Slater
1966 Herbert S. Gutowsky
1965 John H. Van Vleck
1936 John Gamble Kirkwood^[8]
1933 Frank Spedding^[9]
1932 Oscar K. Rice [de] ^[10]
1931 Linus Pauling

References

^ "The Langmuir Prize", Oregon State University Library. Retrieved April 14, 2011.
^ "Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics - American Chemical Society". American Chemical Society. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
^ "2018 Norman F. Ramsey Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, and in Precision Tests of Fundamental Laws and Symmetries Recipient". APS Physics | APS Home. 11 September 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
^ "James L. Skinner". UW-Madison Department of Chemistry. Archived from the original on 11 September 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
^ "F. Fleming Crim". UW-Madison Department of Chemistry. Archived from the original on 11 September 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
^ "J. David Litster". MIT. 5 July 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
^ "People". Chemical & Engineering News. 53 (19). American Chemical Society (ACS): 31–32. 12 May 1975. doi:10.1021/cen-v053n019.p031a. ISSN 0009-2347.
^ "Produces a fiber a third thinner than natural silk", The New York Times. April 14, 1936. Page 1.
^ Corbett, John D. (2001). "Frank Harold Spedding 1902-1982". Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. 80. National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
^ "Harvard Savant Wins Chemistry Promise Award" (PDF). The Daily Star, Long Island. 1 April 1932. Retrieved 6 June 2015.