2006 Pauling Medal
Award Chair
Dr. David L. Patrick
Dept. of Chemistry
Western Washington University
Tel: 360-650-3128
Fax: 360-650-2826
Symposium Chair
Dr. Chris Daley
Dept. of Chemistry
Western Washington University
daley@chem.wwu.edu
The 2006 Linus Pauling Medal was awarded to Peter Stang, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah.
The Linus Pauling Medal is given annually by the Oregon, Portland and Puget Sound Sections of the American Chemical Society. The award recognizes outstanding accomplishments in chemistry in the spirit of and in honor of Linus Pauling, a native of the Pacific Northwest.
About the 2006 Pauling Medalist
Peter Stang obtained his
Ph.D. with Professor Andrew Streitwieser at the University of California at
Berkeley in 1966 and was a post-doctoral fellow with Professor Paul Schleyer
and a Lecturer at Princeton University prior to arriving at Utah in 1969.
His academic appointments include serving as department chair, and
presently, Dean of the College of Science. Over the past 40 years, he has made numerous, seminal contributions to diverse areas of physical
organic and synthetic chemistry. His pioneering achievements include the
first preparation of vinyl triflates in the late 1960's and 1970's; the
first examples of highly strained alkyldienecycloproparenes in the 1980's
and 1990's, and several major advances in supramolecular chemistry,
self-assembly and organometallic chemistry from the 1990's to the present,
including the design and preparation of exquisitely
complex assemblies such
as the molecular dodecahedron shown in the figure. He has authored or
co-authored nearly 400 publications, including six monographs and three
dozen reviews. His record of service to the chemical
community is also exemplary, including participation in numerous
national and international panels and committees, and since 2002, serving as
the editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. He
has mentored 43 postdoctoral associates, 31 PhD students, and 7 MS students.
His previous recognitions include the ACS George A. Olah Award in
Hydrocarbon Chemistry, the ACS James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic
Chemistry, the 1994 ACS Utah Section Award, along with numerous other
honors. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Peter Stang was born in 1941 in
Nürnberg, Germany and became a naturalized US citizen in 1962. He and
his wife Christine have two daughters.
The 2006 Award symposium was held Saturday, November 4th on the campus of Western Washington University. Details are available here.
1966
Linus Pauling
Manfred Eigen
Herbert C. Brown
Henry Eyring
1970
Harold C. Urey
Gerhard Herzberg
E. Bright Wilson
E. J. Corey
Roald Hoffmann
Paul Bartlett
F. Albert Cotton
John A. Pople
Dudley Herschbach
Daniel Koshland
1980
John D. Roberts
Henry Taube
George Pimentel
Gilbert Stork
John S. Waugh
Harold Scheraga
Harry B. Gray
Harden McConnell
Keith Ingold
Neil Bartlett
1990
James P. Collman
Rudolph Marcus
Kenneth Wiberg
Richard N. Zare
James A. Ibers
Alexander Rich
Kyriacos Nicolaou
Ahmed H. Zewail
Allen J. Bard
Peter B. Dervan
2000
Gabor J. Somorjai
Tobin J. Marks
John Brauman
Robert H. Grubbs
Martin Karplus
George Whitesides
Peter Stang