Anselme Payen Award


The Anselme Payen Award is an annual prize named in honor of Anselme Payen, the French scientist who discovered cellulose, and was a pioneer in the chemistry of both cellulose and lignin.
In 1838, he discovered that treating successively wood with nitric acid and an alkaline solution yielded a major insoluble residue that he called "cellulose", while dissolved incrustants were later called "lignin" by Frank Schulze. He was the first to attempt separation of wood into its component parts. After treating different woods with nitric acid he obtained a fibrous substance common to all which he also found in cotton and other plants. His analysis revealed the chemical formula of the substance to be C6H10O5. He reported the discovery and the first results of this classic work in 1838 in Comptes Rendus. The name "cellulose" was coined and introduced into the scientific literature next year, in 1839.
Anselme Payen Award Recipients
The Anselme Payen Award, which includes a medal and an honorarium given by the American Chemical Society's Cellulose and Renewable Materials Division, to honor and encourage "outstanding professional contributions to the science and chemical technology of cellulose and its allied products".
The Anselme Payen Award is an international award and any scientist conducting cellulose and cellulose related research is eligible for nomination. Selection of the awardee is based upon an evaluation of the nomination packages submitted on behalf of potential awardees. These documents are individually ranked by a panel of nine judges who are appointed by the current Chair-Elect and are unknown to each other. Three judges rotate off the panel each year. The identity of all members is known only to the Chair of the awards committee who compiles the results. After the awardee accepts, the Chair of the Awards Committee announces the winner at the next Spring ACS meeting. The awardee for that year is honored at the following Spring ACS meeting at a Symposium and Banquet. The award bears the year the winner was announced. It is presented the following year to allow time for organization of the Symposium and Banquet.

Recipients

YearAwardeeInstitution
1962Louis Elsberg WiseThe Institute of Paper Chemistry
1963Clifford Burroughs PurvesMcGill University
1964Harold Morton SpurlinHercules
1965Carl Johan MalmEastman Kodak
1966Wayne A. SissonAmerican Viscose
1967Roy L. WhistlerPurdue University
1968Alfred J. StammUSDA Forest Products Lab
1969Stanley MasonMcGill University
1970Wilson A. ReevesUSDA, ARS, Southern Regional Research Center
1971Tore E. TimellSUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
1972Conrad SchuerchSUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
1973D. A. I. GoringMcGill University
1974Vivian Thomas StannettNorth Carolina State University
1975J. K. N. JonesQueens University
1976Robert H. MarchessaultUniversity of Montreal
1977W. Kyle Ward, Jr.The Institute of Paper Chemistry
1978W. Howard RapsonUniversity of Toronto
1979Kyosti V. SarkanenUniversity of Washington
1980Olof SamuelsonChalmers University of Technology
1981Stanley P. RowlandUSDA, ARS, Southern Regional Research Center
1982Erich AdlerChalmers University of Technology
1983Reginald D. PrestonLeeds University
1984Jett C. Arthur, Jr.USDA, ARS, Southern Regional Research Center
1985Orlando A. BattistaThe O. A. Battista Research Institute
1986R. Malcolm Brown, Jr.The University of Texas at Austin
1987Takayoshi HiguchiKyoto University
1988Bengt RanbyRoyal Institute of Technology
1989Anatole SarkoSUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
1990Junzo NakanoUniversity of Tokyo
1991Henri ChanzyCERMAV, Grenoble
1992Josef GeierRoyal Institute of Technology
1993Derek GrayPaprican, McGill University
1994Geoffrey N. RichardsUniversity of Montana
1995Josef GratzlNorth Carolina State University
1996S. Haig ZeronianUniversity of California, Davis
1997Joseph L. McCarthyUniversity of Washington
1998Rajai H. AtallaUSDA Forest Products Laboratory
1999John Blackwell CaseWestern Reserve University
2000Wolfgang G. GlasserVirginia Tech
2001Liisa ViikariVTT Biotechnology
2002R. St. John ManleyMcGill University
2003Deborah P. DelmerThe Rockefeller Foundation
2004Dieter KlemmFriedrich Schiller University Jena
2005Peter ZugenmaierClausthal University of Technology
2006Charles BuchananEastman Chemical Company
2007Fumitaka HoriiKyoto University
2008Fumiaki NakatsuboKyoto University
2009Alfred D. FrenchUSDA, ARS, Southern Regional Research Center
2010J. Thomas HeinzeFriedrich Schiller University of Jena
2011Lina ZhangWuhan University
2012Hans-Peter FinkFraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research
2013John RalphUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
2014Thomas RosenauUniversity of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
2015:ja:%E7%A3%AF%E8%B2%9D%E6%98%8E|Akira IsogaiUniversity of Tokyo
2016Kevin EdgarVirginia Tech
2017Junji SugiyamaKyoto University
2018Orlando J. RojasAalto University