Chemical Institute of Canada Medal

The Chemical Institute of Canada Medal or CIC Medal is the highest award that the Chemical Institute of Canada confers. Awarded annually since 1951, it is given to "a person who has made an outstanding contribution to the science of chemistry or chemical engineering in Canada".[1]

The medal is presented at the annual Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition or Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, at which the recipient gives a plenary lecture.[2]

The award commemorates the isolation of nickel by Frederik Cronstedt in 1751. The medals were originally sponsored by the International Nickel Company and consisted of 8 ounces (227g) of pure palladium. The sponsorship ended in 2006, since when the medals have been made of silver plated nickel.

Winners

Source (recent winners): CIC

Date Award Winner Award Lecture
2024 Warren Piers
2023 Janusz Pawliszyn, University of Waterloo
2022 Chao-Jun Li, McGill University
2021 Molly Shoichet, University of Waterloo
2020 Jonathan Abbatt, University of Toronto
2019 Linda Nazar, University of Waterloo
2018 André Charette [Wikidata] A Journey Into Organic Synthesis: Evolution of Methods and Techniques to Tackle 21st Century Problems
2017 Eugenia Kumacheva Nanoparticle Self-assembly Bridging the Gap between Molecules and Nanoparticles
2016 Stephen G. Withers [Wikidata] Design and Discovery of Enzyme Inhibitors Towards Therapies for Diabetes and Influenza
2015 Axel D. Becke Full Circle, A Career in Density-Functional Theory
2014 Douglas Stephan From Frustrated Lewis Pairs to Electrophlic Phosphorium Cations: Metal-free Approaches to Hydrogenation Catalysis
2013 Mark Lautens Multicomponent-Multicatalytic Reactions (MC)2R
2012 Raymond Andersen [Wikidata] Sponging Off Nature for New Drug Leads
2011 Adi Eisenberg [Wikidata] Block Copolymer Vesicles Following Nature's Trail with Bigger Molecules
2010 Tom Ziegler [de] Approaching Chemistry from First Principle with Density Functional Theory
2009 R. J. Dwayne Miller Making the Molecular Movie: Quest for the Structure-Function Correlation of Biology
2008 John Vederas [Wikidata] The Chemistry and Biology of Getting Drugs from Bugs
2007 Diethard Böhme Gas-Phase Ions and Chemical Mass Spectrometry
2006 Ronald Kluger [Wikidata] Molecular Keystones: Lessons from Bioorganic Reaction Mechanisms
2005 Peter J. Guthrie [Wikidata] Computational Chemistry as a Tool for Mechanistic Investigations: Predicting Rate and Equilibrium Constants
2004 Mitchell A. Winnik [Wikidata] Nanowires and Nanotubes through Block-Copolymer Self-Assembly
2003 Raymond E. Kapral [Wikidata]
2002 Chris E. Brion [Wikidata] Experimental Observation of Orbital-Like Behaviour of Valence Electrons: Which Orbital Models are Appropriate For Describing Electron Transfer?
2001 Geoffrey Ozin Race for the Photonic Chip
2000 Brian R. James [Wikidata]
1999 Juan Cesar Scaiano Laser Applications in the Study of Organic Reaction Mechanisms
1998 Richard J. Puddephatt Bond Activation by Organoplatinum Compounds
1997 Howard Alper Catalysis Today: New Opportunities for Tomorrow
1996 G. Michael Bancroft Synchrotron Radiation: the Light Source of the Future
1995 J. Bryan Jones [Wikidata] Studies on Enzymes. A Personal Perspective
1994 William A. G. Graham [Wikidata] The Rich Potential of Trispyraxolylborate Ligands
1993 Paul Brumer Control of Chemical Reactions Using Lasers
1992 Donald Allan Ramsay [ru] The Spectra of Free Radicals
1991 Keith C. Yates [Wikidata] The Nature of Photohydration Reactivity
1990 Ashok Vijh Excursions in Electrochemical Physics
1989 John L. Holmes [Wikidata] Novel Ions, Molecules and Radicals; Mass Spectrometry's Gifts to Chemistry
1988 Stephen Hanessian Man, Machine and Heuristics in Synthesis Planning
1987 John C. D. Brand [Wikidata] Multiphoton Spectroscopy
1986 Paul Kebarle [Wikidata] Energy Changes of Ionic Reactions in the Gas Phase and Solution - Bridging of the Two Fields
1985 Adrian G. Brook [Wikidata] One Thing Leads to Another - From Silylcarbinols to Silaethylenes
1984 Peter Yates [Wikidata] Aspects of the Photochemistry of Cyclic Ketones
1983 Camille Sandorfy Chemical Spectroscopy in the Far Ultraviolet
1982 P. de Mayo [Wikidata] Superficial Photochemistry
1981 Keith U. Ingold Oxidation and Its. Prevention in Petrochemicals, Food and Living Systems
1980 W. Howard Rapson [Wikidata] Chemistry and Human Welfare
1979 Bernard Belleau The Curse of Opium: Requital through Medicinal Organic Chemistry
1978 R. J. Cvetanović [Wikidata] Some Current Trends in Chemical Kinetics
1977 Ronald J. Gillespie Structural Chemistry of the Main Group Elements
1976 John C. Polanyi Molecular Motions in Chemical Reactions
1975 Brian E. Conway Electrochemical Studies in Surface Science
1974 Harold J. Bernstein [Wikidata] Resonance Raman Spectroscopy
1973 Stanley Mason [fr; it] The Micro-Rheology of Disperse Systems
1972 Gerhard Herzberg Spectra of Simple Free Radicals
1971 Keith J. Laidler Adventures in Chemical Kinetics
1970 Donald J. Le Roy [Wikidata] The Kinetics of the Simplest Chemical Reactions
1969 Charles A. McDowell [Wikidata] Photoelectron Spectroscopy
1968 James A. Morrison [Wikidata] The Unexpected Behavior of Solid Methane at Very Low Temperatures
1967 Harold E. Gunning Sulphur Atom Chemistry
1966 William-Henry Gauvin High Temperature Research
1965 Paul-Antoine Giguère Thirty Years of Peroxide Chemistry
1964 Raymond U. Lemieux The Chemical Synthesis of Glycosides
1963 Karel Wiesner Ten Years of Studies on Basic Terpenes at the University of New Brunswick
1962 Erich Baer [de] Natural Phospholipids - Synthesis and Structure
1961 William G. Schneider Problem Electrons
1960 C. B. Purves [Wikidata] Locating Substituents in Cellulose - A Review
1959 Richard H. F. Manske [Wikidata] Fifty Years with Alkaloids
1958 Carl A. Winkler [Wikidata] Active Nitrogen
1957 Henry G. Thode The Geochemistry of the Sulphur Isotopes
1956 Leo Marion The Biogenesis of Alkaloids
1955 Alvin R. Gordon [Wikidata] Current Problems in the Field of the Electrolytes
1954 R. K. Stratford [Wikidata] Thirty Years in Petroleum Research
1953 E. W. R. Steacie Present Status of Radical Mechanisms for Organic Decompositions
1952 Otto Maass Some Underlying Factors Involving the Process of Wood Pulp Production
1951 T. Thorvaldson The Training of Chemists for Industry

See also

References

  1. ^ "CIC Medal". The Chemical Institute of Canada. 1 January 2018. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  2. ^ "CIC Awards" (PDF). Chemical Institute of Canada. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 August 2015. Retrieved 14 September 2018.