The Local Section of the American Chemical Society has awarded the Herty Medal since 1933 in honor of Charles Herty. [1] The medallion is solid gold and is inscribed with the words "pro scientia et patria - Herty 1933." The Latin phrase translates roughly as "for science and country". [2]
This yearly award recognizes outstanding chemists who have significantly contributed to their chosen fields. All chemists in academic, government, or industrial laboratories who have been residing in the southeastern United States for at least 10 years are eligible. [1] (For this purpose Southeastern United States is defined as the union of the following states: Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina.)
As of 2019, 85 Herty Medalists have been honored. [3] The 75th Herty Award was commemorated with a special celebration that included a special luncheon at the Coca-Cola Headquarters honoring over 10 Herty Medalists, a Graduate Student Symposium at Georgia Tech with several Medalists as speakers, Future Medalists Symposia at local high schools, and the first Herty Medal Undergraduate Research Symposium (HMURS). [1] [4] Notably, Charles Herty was awarded the second Herty Medal in 1934. [3]
Year | Medalist | Institution |
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2022 | H. N. Cheng [5] | U.S. Department of Agriculture, New Orleans |
2021 | Anne-Frances Miller | University of Kentucky |
2020 | Susan D. Richardson [6] | University of South Carolina |
2019 | Lisa McElwee-White | University of Florida |
2018 | Sandra Rosenthal [7] | Vanderbilt University |
2017 | Rigoberto Hernandez [8] | Georgia Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins University |
2016 | Brooks H. Pate [9] | University of Virginia |
2015 | David Beratan [10] | Duke University |
2014 | Luigi G. Marzilli [11] | Louisiana State University |
2013 | David G. Lynn [12] | Emory University |
2012 | Alvin L. Crumbliss [1] | Duke University |
2011 | R. Mark Wightman [13] | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
2010 | Ken B. Wagener [14] | University of Florida |
2009 | Craig L. Hill [1] | Emory University |
2008 | Gregory H. Robinson [15] | University of Georgia |
2007 | Luis Echegoyen | Clemson University |
2006 | Gary B. Schuster | Georgia Institute of Technology |
2005 | Dennis C. Liotta | Emory University |
2004 | Michael T. Crimmins | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
2003 | Alan G. Marshall | Florida State University |
2002 | Lanny S. Liebeskind | Emory University |
2001 | F. Ivy Carroll | Research Triangle Institute |
2000 | James C. Powers [16] | Georgia Institute of Technology |
1999 | Richard D. Adams | University of South Carolina |
1998 | Gordon L. Nelson | Florida Institute of Technology |
1997 | Fredric M. Menger | Emory University |
1996 | David W. Boykin | Georgia State University |
1995 | R. Bruce King | University of Georgia |
1994 | William D. Ehmann | University of Kentucky |
1993 | Leon H. Zalkow | Georgia Institute of Technology |
1992 | Isiah M. Warner | Emory University |
1991 | Ernest L. Eliel | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
1988 | Jett C. Arthur, Jr. | Milliken Research Corp. Spartanburgh, SC |
1987 | Charles K. Bradsher | Duke University |
1986 | Lockhart E. Rogers | University of Georgia |
1985 | Raymond B. Seymour | University of Southern Mississippi |
1984 | Eugene C. Ashby | Georgia Institute of Technology |
1983 | Albert Padwa | Emory University |
1982 | Norman L. Allinger | University of Georgia |
1981 | Jacob H. Goldstein | Emory University |
1980 | Irwin Fridovich | Duke University |
1979 | Mary E. Carter | Southern Regional Research Center, USDA, New Orleans |
1978 | George B. Butler | University of Florida |
1977 | William L. Marshall | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
1976 | Henry C. R. McBay | Morehouse College |
1975 | Mary L. Good | Louisiana State University |
1974 | John Montgomery | Southern Research Institute, Birmingham |
1973 | D. Stanley Tarbell | Vanderbilt University |
1972 | Kent C. Brannock | Tennessee Eastman Company, Eastman Kodak, Kingsport, TN |
1971 | S. William Pelletier | U. of Georgia, Athens |
1970 | Robert E. Lutz | University of Virginia |
1969 | George L. Drake, Jr. | Southern Regional Research Center, USDA, New Orleans |
1968 | Charles N. Reilley | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
1967 | G. H. Cartledge | Chemistry Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
1966 | James E. Copenhaver (1896–1982) | University of South Carolina |
1965 | Charles T. Lester | Emory University |
1964 | S. Y. Tyree, Jr. | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
1963 | Jack Hine | Georgia Institute of Technology |
1962 | Charles R. Hauser | Duke University |
1961 | Howard E. Skipper (1915–2006) | Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, AL |
1960 | Arthur E. Wood | Mississippi College |
1959 | C. Harold Fisher | USDA, New Orleans |
1958 | Lucius A . Bigelow | Duke University |
1957 | S. J. Floyd | |
1956 | M. P. Etheridge | Mississippi State |
1955 | Frank J. Soday | The Chemstrand Corp., Decatur, AL |
1954 | John R. Sampey | Furman University |
1953 | Raymond W. McNamee | Carbide & Carbon Chemical Company, WV |
1952 | Alton E. Bailey | Humko Company, Inc., Tennessee |
1951 | J. T. MacKenzie | American Cast Iron Pipe Company, Alabama |
1950 | R. W. Bost | University of North Carolina |
1949 | Osborne R. Quayle | University of Georgia |
1948 | W. F. Rudd | Medical School of Virginia |
1947 | E. Emmett Reid | Johns Hopkins University |
1946 | W. A. Lazier | Southern Research Institute |
1945 | P. M. Gross | Duke University |
1944 | J. E. Mills | Sonoco Products Company |
1943 | J. H. Yoe | University of Virginia |
1942 | T. R. Leigh | University of Florida |
1941 | W. F. Hand | Mississippi State College |
1940 | J. Sam Guy | Emory University |
1939 | F. K. Cameron | University of North Carolina |
1938 | C. E. Coates | Louisiana State University |
1937 | J. L. Howe | Washington and Lee University |
1936 | W. H. MacIntire | University of Tennessee |
1935 | F. P. Dunnington | University of Virginia |
1934 | Charles H. Herty (1867–1938) | Herty Laboratory |
1933 | Fred Allison | Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Alabama |
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