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THE Priestley Medal, the highest honour in American chemistry, has been awarded to Prof. Roger Adams, head of the department of chemistry in the University of Illinois and one of the nation's leading organic chemists. The Priestley Medal, named after the discoverer of oxygen, is the fourth high scientific honour won by Prof. Adams within the past year. While he was serving with General L. D. Clay (deputy military governor of the American Occupation Zone in Germany), he received the Davy Medal of the Royal Society of London in recognition of his extensive researches in the field of organic chemistry. After he returned to the United States, he was awarded the Theodore William Richards Medal of the American Chemical Society's North-eastern Section for conspicuous achievement in organic chemistry. Later he was selected to give the first Remsen Memorial Lecture at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, inaugurating an annual series founded by the Maryland Section of the Society in honour of the late Ira Remsen, pioneer in American organic chemistry. Prof. Adams, who was president of the American Chemical Society in 1935, also holds the Willard Gibbs Medal of the Society's Chicago Section, granted in 1936 for his work in synthetic organic chemistry and his achievements as a teacher, and the William H. Nichols Medal of the New York Section, conferred in 1927 for distinguished contributions to original research.
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American Chemical Society Awards: Priestley Medal. Nature 158, 371–372 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158371c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/158371c0