Kathryn C. Hach Award for Entrepreneurial Success
Kathryn C. Hach Award for Entrepreneurial Success recognizes entrepreneurs who build commercially viable chemistry businesses that improve lives, create jobs, and deliver economic benefits.
Funder: American Chemical Society
Due Dates: August 5, 2026 (Nominations open) | December 5, 2026 (Nomination deadline, 2028 awards)
Funding Amounts: $20,000 award plus up to $2,500 in travel reimbursement
Summary: Recognizes entrepreneurs who create commercially viable chemistry businesses that improve lives and generate chemistry jobs with significant economic benefit.
Key Information: Nominees must be ACS members; individuals and teams of up to three are eligible.
Description
The Kathryn C. Hach Award for Entrepreneurial Success is an American Chemical Society (ACS) National Award recognizing outstanding entrepreneurs who have created a commercially viable business within the chemical enterprise. It honors the creation of a new product, service, company, or industry that uses the transforming power of chemistry to improve people’s lives.
The award emphasizes entrepreneurial achievement built through passion, persistence, and hard work. Its central priority is impact: benefits to people’s lives and economic benefits through the creation of chemistry jobs. This is recognition of entrepreneurial accomplishment, with selection considering both the company’s impact and the nominee’s contribution to its success, alongside evidence of commercial viability and value creation.
