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,[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]

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".[4]
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.[5]

Recipients

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Year	Awardee	Institution
1962	Louis Elsberg Wise	The Institute of Paper Chemistry
1963	Clifford Burroughs Purves	McGill University
1964	Harold Morton Spurlin	Hercules
1965	Carl Johan Malm	Eastman Kodak
1966	Wayne A. Sisson	American Viscose
1967	Roy L. Whistler	Purdue University
1968	Alfred J. Stamm	USDA Forest Products Lab
1969	Stanley Mason	McGill University
1970	Wilson A. Reeves	USDA, ARS, Southern Regional Research Center
1971	Tore E. Timell	SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
1972	Conrad Schuerch	SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
1973	D. A. I. Goring	McGill University
1974	Vivian Thomas Stannett	North Carolina State University
1975	J. K. N. Jones	Queens University
1976	Robert H. Marchessault	University of Montreal
1977	W. Kyle Ward, Jr.	The Institute of Paper Chemistry
1978	W. Howard Rapson	University of Toronto
1979	Kyosti V. Sarkanen	University of Washington
1980	Olof Samuelson	Chalmers University of Technology
1981	Stanley P. Rowland	USDA, ARS, Southern Regional Research Center
1982	Erich Adler	Chalmers University of Technology
1983	Reginald D. Preston	Leeds University
1984	Jett C. Arthur, Jr.	USDA, ARS, Southern Regional Research Center
1985	Orlando A. Battista	The O. A. Battista Research Institute
1986	R. Malcolm Brown, Jr.	The University of Texas at Austin
1987	Takayoshi Higuchi	Kyoto University
1988	Bengt Ranby	Royal Institute of Technology
1989	Anatole Sarko	SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
1990	Junzo Nakano	University of Tokyo
1991	Henri Chanzy	CERMAV, Grenoble
1992	Josef Geier	Royal Institute of Technology
1993	Derek Gray	Paprican, McGill University
1994	Geoffrey N. Richards	University of Montana
1995	Josef Gratzl	North Carolina State University
1996	S. Haig Zeronian	University of California, Davis
1997	Joseph L. McCarthy	University of Washington
1998	Rajai H. Atalla	USDA Forest Products Laboratory
1999	John Blackwell Case	Western Reserve University
2000	Wolfgang G. Glasser	Virginia Tech
2001	Liisa Viikari	VTT Biotechnology
2002	R. St. John Manley	McGill University
2003	Deborah P. Delmer	The Rockefeller Foundation
2004	Dieter Klemm	Friedrich Schiller University Jena
2005	Peter Zugenmaier	Clausthal University of Technology
2006	Charles Buchanan	Eastman Chemical Company
2007	Fumitaka Horii	Kyoto University
2008	Fumiaki Nakatsubo	Kyoto University
2009	Alfred D. French	USDA, ARS, Southern Regional Research Center
2010	J. Thomas Heinze	Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
2011	Lina Zhang	Wuhan University
2012	Hans-Peter Fink	Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research
2013	John Ralph	University of Wisconsin-Madison
2014	Thomas Rosenau	University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
2015	Akira Isogai	University of Tokyo
2016	Kevin Edgar	Virginia Tech
2017	Junji Sugiyama	Kyoto University
2018	Orlando J. Rojas	Aalto University

References

1. Payen A., Memoire sur la composition du tissu propre des plantes et du ligneux, Comptes Rendus, 7: 1052-1056, (1838).
2. Schulze F., Beitrage zur Kenntniss des Lignins, Chemisches Zentralblatt, 21:321-325 (1857).
3. Payen A., Composition de la matière ligneuse, Comptes Rendus, 8: 51-53, (1839).
4. http://cell.sites.acs.org/anselmepayenaward.htm
5. http://www.esf.edu/cellulose/apa.htm
6. "Anselme Payen Award". Cellulose and Renewable Materials Division. Retrieved 2020-07-30.