ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry recognizes researchers’ outstanding published work in organic synthesis to honor scientific innovation and encourage further creativity.
ACS now explicitly states that support-letter writers need not be Society members. Conduct inconsistent with ACS Core Values has been added as grounds for rescinding an award.
ACS Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Chemistry recognizes researchers’ creative research, technology, and analytical methods to inform environmental decisions or reduce health risks.
ACS Award for Creative Invention recognizes an individual inventor's practical application of chemistry or chemical engineering research to advance people's material prosperity and happiness.
Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Original Contribution in Organic Synthesis by a Young Investigator honors young researchers for creative, useful work that advances synthetic organic chemistry.
ACS Award in Pure Chemistry supports early-career researchers by recognizing fundamental research of unusual merit, encouraging original, independent thought and scientific accomplishment in pure chemistry.
Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods honors researchers for discovering and developing novel, useful chemical synthesis methods to encourage creative advances across chemistry.