Florida Award

Florida Award

About the Award

Purpose
To recognize leadership and contributions toward the advancement of the profession of chemistry.
Establishment and Support
The award was established in 1952 by vote of the Florida Section of the American Chemical Society and has been given each year since then at the annual scientific meeting of the Florida Sections.
Nature
The award consists of a plaque and $500, plus hotel and registration for the purpose of attending the meeting to receive the award and to give an address. The Florida Section of the American Chemical Society will also provide up to $500 in support of the symposium centered around the award recipient’s research interests. This specially organized symposium will be part of the Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition that is held in September each year.
Rules of Eligibility
A nominee must be a resident of the Southeastern United States and must have made outstanding contributions to teaching, research, publications or service in advancing the profession. The award recipient gives an address at the Annual Meeting.
To Submit a Nomination
The nominator should obtain the consent of the nominee. A nomination package should then be e-mailed as a single PDF file to Professor George Christou (christou@chem.ufl.edu). A complete nomination package should consist of:
a nomination letter that outlines the nominee’s qualifications and contributions to the profession, two seconding letters of support for the nomination, and a copy of the nominee’s current curriculum vitae.
Nomination forms and seconding letters must be received by Friday December 13, 2024.
Note: The 2025 Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition (FAME 2025) will be held September 12 – 14, 2025 at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club near Tampa, FL. The award recipient for 2025 will give an address at the meeting during a symposium related to their recipient’s research interests. Nominators should confirm in the nomination letter that the nominee can be present to participate in the meeting program and to receive the Award.

2025 Florida Award Winner

Congratulations to Prof. Hans-Conrad zur Loye
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of South Carolina
Hans-Conrad zur Loye is the David W. Robinson Palmetto Professor and Carolina Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of South Carolina; he holds a joint appointment at Savannah River National Laboratory. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree at Brown University in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988 under the supervision of Prof. Angela Stacy. He spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University with Prof. Duward Shriver before starting as an assistant professor in the Chemistry Department of MIT in 1989. In 1996 he moved to the University of South Carolina. He is currently the director of the DOE EFRC, the Center for Hierarchical Waste Form Materials, where his group works on the crystal growth of new complex oxides and fluorides for sequestering actinide elements. 
 
He has published over 500 papers and reviews. He received the ACS administered Exxon Award in Solid State Chemistry in 1994, the University of South Carolina Educational Foundation Award for Research in Science, Mathematics and Engineering in 2006, and the IPMI Henry J. Albert Award in 2009. He was elected to the rank of Fellow of the AAAS in 2009. He has been very active in the American Chemical Society and was the chair of the Solid State Chemistry subdivision of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry.  He has organized multiple symposia at national ACS meetings, and he was the Technical Sessions Chair, 2016 South East Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (SERMACS). He was named the South Carolina Section of the ACS “Outstanding Chemist” in 2010 and was elected to the rank of Fellow of the ACS in 2011. He received the Southern Chemist Award in 2011, the University of South Carolina Trustee Professorship Award in 2012, and the Charles H. Stone Award from the ACS Carolina Piedmont Section in 2017. In 2016 he received the South Carolina Governor’s Award for Excellence in Scientific Research.  He was an associate editor for the Journal of Solid State Chemistry from 1997-2022, and a past editor for the Journal of Alloys and Compound. He is a member and past President of the South Carolina Academy of Science, which promotes science education in South Carolina.

Previous Award Winners

  • 1952 Paul Gross (Duke University)
  • 1953 A. E. Wood (University of Mississippi)
  • 1954 C. B. Pollard (University of Florida)
  • 1955 H. E. Skipper (Southern Research Institute)
  • 1956 George K. Davis (University of Florida)
  • 1957 C. R. Hauser (Duke University)
  • 1958 Karl Dittmer (Florida State University)
  • 1959 J. E. Hawkins (University of Florida)
  • 1960 H. H. Sisler (University of Florida)
  • 1961 Michael Kasha (Florida State University)
  • 1962 Jack Hine (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  • 1963 George Butler (University of Florida)
  • 1964 C. T. Bahner (Carson-Newman College)
  • 1965 Werner Herz (Florida State University)
  • 1966 Paul Tarrant (University of Florida)
  • 1967 O. K. Rice (University of North Carolina)
  • 1968 Earl Frieden (Florida State University)
  • 1969 John Baxter (University of Florida)
  • 1970 S. P. McGlynn (Louisiana State University))
  • 1971 Ray Lawrence (USDA Naval Stores Laboratory)
  • 1972 James V. Quagliano (Florida State University)
  • 1973 Gregory Choppin (Florida State University)
  • 1974 Sidney Fox (University of Miami)
  • 1975 Dean F. Martin (University of South Florida)
  • 1976 William Jones (University of Florida)
  • 1977 Cecil Criss (University of Miami)
  • 1978 Harry Walborsky (Florida State University)
  • 1979 Mary Good (Louisiana State University)
  • 1980 Raymond Sheline (Florida State University)
  • 1981 Wallace Brey (University of Florida)
  • 1982 ames D. Winefordner (University of Florida)
  • 1983 Theodore A. Ashford (University of South Florida)
  • 1984 Leo Mandelkern (Florida State University)
  • 1985 Brian Stevens (University of South Florida)
  • 1986 Harry P. Schultz (University of Miami)
  • 1987 DeLos F. DeTar (Florida State University)
  • 1988 Edward K. Mellon (Florida State University)
  • 1989 William R. Dolbier (University of Florida)
  • 1990 R. Bruce King (University of Georgia)
  • 1991 George R. Newkome (University of South Florida)
  • 1992 Charles E. Carraher (Florida Atlantic University)
  • 1993 Norman L. Allinger (University of Georgia)
  • 1994 Albert Padwa (Emory University)
  • 1995 Alan R. Katritzky (University of Florida)
  • 1996 Luis Echegoyen (University of Miami)
  • 1997 N. Yngve Öhrn (University of Florida)
  • 1998 Jack Saltiel (Florida State University)
  • 1999 Mostafa El-Sayed (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  • 2000 Rodney J. Bartlett (University of Florida)
  • 2001 Thomas J. Vickers (Florida State University)
  • 2002 Alan G. Marshall (Florida State University)
  • 2003 Kenneth B. Wagener (University of Florida)
  • 2004 John G. Dorsey (Florida State University)
  • 2005 Charles R. (Martin University of Florida)
  • 2006 Roger M. Leblanc (University of Miami)
  • 2007 Naresh Dalal (Florida State University)
  • 2008 George Christou (University of Florida)
  • 2009 Kirk S. Schanze (University of Florida)
  • 2010 Timothy Cross (Florida State University)
  • 2011 Frank Millero (University of Miami)
  • 2012 Weihong Tan (University of Florida)
  • 2013 Joe Schlenoff (Florida State University)
  • 2014 Weitao Yang (Duke University)
  • 2015 Lisa McElwee-White (University of Florida)
  • 2016 Richard D. Adams (University of South Carolina
  • 2017 David N Bertan (Duke University)
  • 2018 Kevin M Smith (Louisiana State University)
  • 2019 John R. Reynolds (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  • 2020 Brian C. Benicewicz (University of South Carolina)
  • 2021 Jeffery Johnson (University of NC Chapel Hill)
  • 2022 Igor Alabugin (Florida State University)
  • 2023 Michael Therien (Duke University)
  • 2024 Brent Sumerlin (University of Florida)