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2004 ORCS Raney Award Recipient
Announced
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Murray Raney Award
Since 1992, Grace Chattanooga has sponsored the Murray Raney Award for contribution in the use of sponge metal catalysts in organic synthesis.
The Organic Reactions Catalysis Society's (ORCS) Executive Committee approved the formation of the Murray Raney Award with the first award going to Stewart Montgomery of W.R. Grace in 1992. Mr. Jefferson D. Herring assisted in the establishment of this award.
ORCS was formed over 38 years ago by a group of people who shared an interest in using catalyst for organic synthesis. The influence of ORCS has grown into an international organization with tremendous cross fertilization. At the sixteenth conference (held in 1996) nearly half of the papers originated outside of the United States.
This year's Murray Raney Award was presented to Professor Jean Lessard at the ORCS Conference held on March 21 - 25, 2004 in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Professor Lessard is Director of the Center for Electrochemistry and Electrocatalysis, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
Professor Jean Lessard receives the 2004 Murray Raney Award by Dr. Steve SchmidtPrevious Murray Raney Award winners are:
1992 - The first Murray Raney Award went to Stewart Montgomery (Baltimore, MD).
The 1994 award went to Pierre Fouilloux (France).
The 1996 to Mark Wainwright (Australia).
The 1998 award was presented to Anatoly Fasman, who is originally from Russia, and currently resides in California.
The 2000 award went to Jozsef Petró from Budapest.
The 2002 award went to Professor Akira Tai from Osaka, Japan.
Stewart Montgomery
1992 |
 Pierre Fouilloux 1994 |
 Mark Wainwright 1996 |
 Anatoly Fasman 1998 |
 Jozsef Petró 2000 |
 Akira Tai 2002 |
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