Prêmio Welch de Química

O Prêmio Welch de Química (em inglês: Welch Award in Chemistry) é concedido pela The Welch Foundation. O propósito do prêmio é fomentar e encorajar pesquisa química básica e reconhecer, de forma substancial, o valor das contribuições em pesquisa química para o benefício da humanidade. O prêmio é dotado com US$ 300.000.

Laureados

Ano	Recipiente	Motivo
1972	Karl August Folkers Universidade do Texas em Austin	For his basic research in the area of life sciences.
1974	Albert Eschenmoser Instituto Federal de Tecnologia de Zurique	For his profound and highly creative contributions to synthetic chemistry.
1976	Neil Bartlett Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley	For his synthesis of chemical compounds of noble gases and the consequent opening of broad new fields of research in inorganic chemistry.
1978	Edgar Bright Wilson Universidade Harvard	For his pioneering theoretical and experimental contributions to molecular structure.
1980	Sune Bergström Instituto Karolinska	For his pioneering studies of the prostaglandins.
1981	Paul Doughty Bartlett Texas Christian University	For his original investigations of the mechanisms of organic reactions.
1982	Frank Westheimer Universidade Harvard	For his significant achievements in the field of bioorganic chemistry.
1983	Henry Taube Universidade Stanford	For his contributions to the field of chemistry, particularly in inorganics.
1984	Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley	For his theory for the internal rotation of groups within molecules.
1985	Duilio Arigoni Instituto Federal de Tecnologia de Zurique	For his contributions of founding the field of bioorganic stereochemistry.
1986	George Claude Pimentel Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley	For his contribution to the field of hydrogen bonding, matrix isolation, and chemical lasers.
1987	Harry George Drickamer Universidade de Illinois em Urbana-Champaign	For his research on the effects of pressure on optical, electrical magnetic and chemical properties of matter.
1988	Richard Barry Bernstein Universidade da Califórnia em Los Angeles	For his pioneering research in chemical dynamics, thereby providing a new understanding of chemical reactions.
1989	Norman Davidson Instituto de Tecnologia da Califórnia	For his pioneering research contributions to the understanding of the structure and function of genetic materials, especially for his novel techniques which had a powerful influence in this field.
1990	John Dombrowski Roberts Instituto de Tecnologia da Califórnia	For his integration of molecular spectroscopy, quantum mechanics, kinetics and other aspects of physical chemistry with his talent for organic synthesis. In the application of these intertwined disciplines to the study of structure activities of organic molecules.
1990	William von Eggers Doering Universidade Harvard	For his critical contribution into fundamental aspects of physical organic chemistry. Among his many other important contributions, his work on the carbenes was a pioneering effort which opened a broad field.
1991	Earl R. Stadtman National Institutes of Health	For his work in demonstrating that covalent interconvertible enzyme cascades provide the cell with a finely tuned regulatory mechanism capable of integrating a vast amount of metabolic information, and that they have a remarkable potential for amplification signals and rates.
1991	Edwin Krebs Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington	For his part in showing that interconversion of phosphorylase between its active and inactive forms involved phosphorylation/ dephosphorylation, a process fundamental to the regulation of nearly every vital biological function.
1992	Richard Smalley Universidade de Rice	For his career contributions to physical chemistry, including his development and use of supersonic molecular beam techniques for the study of clusters, ions, and molecules.
1993	Gilbert Stork Universidade Columbia	For his work in developing new methods in organic synthesis and as a mentor to leading synthetic chemists all over the world. He has profoundly influenced the way scientists think about natural product synthesis in general and stereochemical control in particular.
1994	Jack Halpern Universidade de Chicago	For his contributions to understanding reaction mechanisms not only of inorganic chemicals but of complex organometallic reactions systems as well; also for his contributions to understanding the field of homogeneous catalysis in solution.
1994	Frank Albert Cotton Texas A&M University	For his work leading to our current understanding of multiple bonds of metal-metal bonding of transition metal chemistry and for his major impact in the field of inorganic and structural chemistry by virtue of his own work and the numerous individuals who worked in his laboratory as students or postdoctoral fellows.
1995	Jeremy R. Knowles Universidade Harvard	For his important contributions to mechanistic enzymology.
1995	Robert Abeles Universidade Brandeis	For his contributions to our understanding of the mechanisms of catalysis by enzymes and to the rational development of compounds that inactivate enzymes.
1996	Koji Nakanishi Universidade Columbia	For his major contribution to our greater understanding of and our capacity to use many of the bioactive compounds found in nature.
1997	Ahmed Zewail Instituto de Tecnologia da Califórnia	For his leadership and pioneering contribution to all phases of femtosecond chemistry.
1998	Pierre Chambon Collège de France	For his achievements in the field of nuclear receptors which have paved the way to a molecular understanding of vertebrate fundamental processes as well as their pathological disorders.
1999	Richard Zare Universidade Stanford	For his seminal contributions in the area of chemical reaction dynamics and in the general field of molecular spectroscopy.
2000	A. Ian Scott Texas A&M University	For his great contributions to organic chemistry and biochemistry, especially the elegant use of every physical and biological tool available to solve complex structural and mechanistic problems in natural product chemistry and biosynthesis, e.g., vitamin B12. He has provided concepts and methodologies which have been fruitful to many others.
2000	Alan Battersby Universidade de Cambridge	For his work which is well described as the biosynthesis of the pigments of life. It represents one of the major and most significant enterprises in contemporary chemistry and has transformed knowledge of the biosynthesis of such vital substances as vitamin B12.
2001	Roger Kornberg Universidade Stanford	For his seminal contributions in biological and structural chemistry: (1) the discovery, basic structure and function of nucleosome; (2) the discovery of the multiprotein Mediator of transcriptional regulation; and (3) the structures of the giant RNA polymerase II transcription initiation and elongation complexes.
2002	Harden McConnell Universidade Stanford	For his thorough understanding of magnetic resonance and its use in achieving greater insight into chemical systems including reaction dynamics, magnetic resonance imaging and membrane phenomenon.
2003	Ronald Breslow Universidade Columbia	For his pioneering contributions to the field of biomimetic chemistry and catalysis by design.
2004	Allen Joseph Bard Universidade do Texas em Austin	For his major accomplishments in the field of electrochemistry and the effect of these on the discipline of chemistry itself.
2005	George Whitesides Universidade Harvard	For the breadth and depth of his insight into chemical processes and his astute use of this understanding in approaching and solving many difficult problems in organic chemistry, biochemistry, biology, material science and surface science.
2006	Daniel Edward Koshland Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley	For his consistent and highly effective use of basic chemical principles to bring to greater clarity chemical processes in complex biological systems.
2007	William Hughes Miller Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley	For pioneering development of the modern theory of chemical reaction dynamics and rates.
2007	Noel Hush Universidade de Sydney	For fundamental work on the theory of homogeneous and heterogeneous electron transfer and contributions in the area of molecular electronics.
2008	Alexander Rich Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts	For outstanding contributions to the understanding of the chemical and biochemical mechanisms in maintaining a living cell.
2009	Harry Barkus Gray Instituto de Tecnologia da Califórnia	For definitive contributions to the field of inorganic chemistry.
2010	JoAnne Stubbe Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts; Christopher Thomas Walsh, Harvard Medical School	For their insights into the chemistry of enzymes in biological systems.
2011	John Waugh Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts	For ground-breaking research in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
2012	David A. Evans Universidade Harvard	For his contributions to organic reaction design, in particular stereocontrol in carbon-carbon bond formation, which advanced the field of complex molecule synthesis.
2013	Louis Brus Universidade Columbia	For creating the field of colloidal quantum dots (semiconductor nanocrystals).
2014	Robert G. Bergman Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley	For pioneering work in alkane activation and mechanisms of organometallic reactions.
2015	Stephen Coplan Harrison Harvard Medical School	For outstanding contributions to the x-ray crystallography of viruses and protein nucleic aid complexes.
2016	Richard Hadley Holm Universidade Harvard; Stephen Lippard Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts	For their important research contributions in the fields of inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry.
2017	John Bannister Goodenough Universidade do Texas em Austin