Ira Remsen

{{Short description|American chemist (1846–1927)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Ira Remsen | image = Ira_Remsen_jhu_coll-0002_02836.jpg | image_caption = Portrait painting, 1906 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1846|2|10|mf=yes}} | birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1927|3|4|1846|2|10|mf=yes}} | death_place = Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, U.S. | nationality = <!--See MOS:INFONAT--> | field = Chemistry | work_institutions = University of Tübingen<br />Williams College<br />Johns Hopkins University | alma_mater = Columbia University<br /> University of Göttingen | doctoral_advisor = Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig | doctoral_students = William Henry Emerson<br /> Charles Herty<br /> William A. Noyes<br /> Kotaro Shimomura<br />Ebenezer Emmet Reid | known_for = Discovery of saccharin<br /> Founder, ''American Chemical Journal'' | influences = | influenced = | awards = Priestley Medal (1923)<br /> Willard Gibbs Award (1914) | footnotes = | signature = Signature of Ira Remsen (1846–1927).png | spouse = Elisabeth Hilleard Mallory }} '''Ira Remsen''' (10 February 1846 – 4 March 1927) was an American chemist who introduced organic chemistry research and education in the United States along the lines of German universities where he received his early training. He was the first professor of chemistry and the second president of Johns Hopkins University. He founded the ''American Chemical Journal'', which he edited from 1879 to 1914. The discovery of saccharin was made in his laboratory by Constantine Fahlberg who worked in collaboration with Remsen but patented the synthesis on his own, earning the ire of Remsen.<ref name="J.H.Gazette" /><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

== Early life== thumb|left|Shortly after returning from Germany, c. 1897 [[File:Ira Remsen 1926.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Dr. Ira Remsen, painted by Ira Mallory Remsen in 1926.]]

Ira Remsen was born in New York City on February 10, 1846. He was the son of James Vanderbelt Remsen (1818–1892) and Rosanna née Secor (1823–1856) who came from family of Dutch settlers. His mother had Huguenot ancestors. He went to the New York Free Academy where he studied Greek, Latin, maths and sciences. He also attended popular lectures by Robert Ogden Doremus at the Cooper Institute. He did not complete his bachelor's degree but apprenticed for a while under a homeopathic physician who was on the faculty of New York Homeooathic Medical School. He dropped out of this as well and joined the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Festa |first=Roger R. |date=1980 |title=Ira Remsen (1846-1927) |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed057p893 |journal=Journal of Chemical Education |language=en |volume=57 |issue=12 |pages=893 |doi=10.1021/ed057p893 |bibcode=1980JChEd..57..893F |issn=0021-9584|url-access=subscription }}</ref> receiving an MD in 1867 with a thesis on fatty degeneration of the liver. He then practiced at Irving Place, New York and a year later sought to study chemistry in Germany. He went to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München where he worked under Jacob Volhard (1834–1910) as well as one series of lectures under Justus von Liebig (1803–1873) who was the main attraction for Remsen to move to Germany.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Noyes |first=William A. |date=September 16, 1927 |title=Ira Remsen |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.66.1707.243 |journal=Science |language=en |volume=66 |issue=1707 |pages=243–246 |doi=10.1126/science.66.1707.243 |pmid=17742012 |bibcode=1927Sci....66..243N |issn=0036-8075|url-access=subscription }}</ref> He then went to the University of Göttingen, on the recommendation of Friedrich Wöhler, and studied organic chemistry under Rudolph Fittig (1835–1910). His 1870 doctorate was on investigations on piperic acid and its derivatives.<ref>{{Cite web| title=Biographical memoir of Ira Remsen 1846-1927 | url=http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/remsen-ira.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102195926/http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/remsen-ira.pdf | archive-date=2014-01-02}}</ref> He worked as an assistant to Fittig from 1870 to 1872 and during this time he met William Ramsay (1852–1916).<ref>{{cite journal |author=Sztejnberg, Aleksander |year=2022 |title=Ira Remsen (1846-1927) - the Eminent American Chemist of the Second Half of the XIX Century and the First Quarter of the XX century (To the 95th Anniversary of His Death) |url=https://www.redalyc.org/journal/1816/181676110009/html/ |journal=Revista CENIC Ciencias Químicas |volume=53 |pages=135–151}}</ref>

He married Elisabeth Hilleard Mallory on April 3, 1875, in New York City, New York. They had two children together. Their son, Ira Mallory Remsen (1876–1928), became an artist and playwright living in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/K4N7-DL6|title= Historical Information for Ira Remsen |website=FamilySearch|access-date=September 8, 2022}}</ref><ref name="J.H.Gazette">{{cite news |last1=Stimpert |first1=James |title=Ira Remsen: The Chemistry Was Right |url=https://pages.jh.edu/gazette/2000/sep1100/11remsen.html |access-date=February 10, 2021 |work=The Johns Hopkins Gazette |issue=2 |date=September 11, 2000 |volume=30 |quote=Ira Remsen was born Feb. 10, 1846, in New York City, of Dutch and Huguenot ancestry. ... Returning to the United States, he took a position as professor of chemistry and physics at Williams College. He found Williams unsympathetic to scientific research, so he concentrated on teaching. Shortly thereafter, he wrote Theoretical Chemistry, in which he reduced fundamental principles to a form simple enough for beginning students to understand. The book received immediate recognition and was soon translated into German and Italian. ... In 1879 he founded the ''American Chemical Journal'', which he edited for 35 years, and he contributed a number of authoritative textbooks that remained standards for many years. ... When Gilman retired from the presidency in 1901, after 25 years, the trustees turned to Ira Remsen to lead the university. ... Ill health forced Remsen to resign from the presidency in 1912, but he recovered sufficiently to rejoin the professional world, serving as a consultant to industry. He died on March 4, 1927. Upon Remsen's death, the Hopkins trustees named the recently completed chemistry building on the Homewood campus in his honor. His ashes are interred behind a plaque in the building.}}</ref>

== Career== In 1872, after researching pure chemistry at University of Tübingen, Remsen returned to the United States and became a professor at Williams College, where he wrote the popular text ''Theoretical Chemistry''.<ref name="J.H.Gazette"/> Remsen's book and reputation brought him to the attention of Daniel Coit Gilman, who invited him to become one of the original faculty of Johns Hopkins University. Remsen accepted and founded the department of chemistry there, overseeing his own laboratory. In 1879, Remsen founded the ''American Chemical Journal'', which he edited for 35 years.<ref name="J.H.Gazette"/><ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Member Directory -- Ira Remsen |url=http://nationalacademyofsciences.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20000823.html |website=nationalacademyofsciences.org |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=February 9, 2021 |quote=In addition, he founded the American Chemical Journal in 1879 and served as its editor until 1913. |archive-date=March 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331081221/http://nationalacademyofsciences.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20000823.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite journal |last1=Armstrong |first1=Henry E. |title=Prof. Ira Remsen |journal=Nature |date=April 1927 |volume=119 |issue=2999 |pages=608–609 |doi=10.1038/119608a0 |bibcode=1927Natur.119..608A |language=en |issn=1476-4687 |quote=...he also started the American Chemical Journal, which he carried on until 1914, when it was merged in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. ...|doi-access=free }}</ref> He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1879.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=1879&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=May 12, 2021 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>

In 1879, Constantine Fahlberg, working with Remsen in a post-doctoral capacity, made an accidental discovery that changed Remsen's career. Eating rolls at dinner after a long day in the lab researching coal tar derivatives, Fahlberg noticed that the rolls tasted initially sweet but then bitter.<ref name="Hicks">{{cite journal |last1=Hicks |first1=Jesse |title=The Pursuit of Sweet |journal=Chemical Heritage Magazine |date=2010 |volume=28 |issue=1 |url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/article/pursuit-sweet |access-date=March 24, 2018}}</ref> Since his wife tasted nothing strange about the rolls, Fahlberg tasted his fingers and noticed that the bitter taste was probably from one of the chemicals in his lab. The next day at his lab he tasted the chemicals that he had been working with the previous day and discovered that it was the oxidation of o-toluenesulfonamide he had tasted the previous evening. He named the substance saccharin and he and his research partner Remsen published their finding in 1880. Later Remsen became angry after Fahlberg, in patenting saccharin (along with his uncle Adolph Moritz List), claimed that he alone had discovered saccharin.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.jhu.edu/gazette/2000/sep1100/11remsen.html | title=The Johns Hopkins Gazette: September 11, 2000}}</ref> Remsen had no interest in the commercial success of saccharin, from which Fahlberg profited, but he was incensed at the perceived dishonesty of not crediting him as the head of the laboratory.<ref name="Hicks" /> Fahlberg would soon grow wealthy, while Remsen merely grew irritated, believing he deserved credit for substances produced in his laboratory. In a letter to Scottish chemist William Ramsay,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Minetor |first=Randi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YrpLEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Fahlberg+is+a+scoundrel.+It+nauseates+me+to+hear+my+name+mentioned+in+the+same+breath+with+him.%22&pg=PA44 |title=Debating Your Plate: The Most Controversial Foods and Ingredients |date=November 5, 2021 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-4408-7436-9 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Allen |first1=Thomas J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tkpCBAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Fahlberg+is+a+scoundrel.+It+nauseates+me+to+hear+my+name+mentioned+in+the+same+breath+with+him.%22&pg=PA161 |title=Building Technology Transfer within Research Universities: An Entrepreneurial Approach |last2=O'Shea |first2=Rory P. |date=September 18, 2014 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-87653-7 |language=en}}</ref> Remsen commented, "Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name mentioned in the same breath with him."<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |title=The life of Ira Remsen |vauthors=Getman FH |date=1940 |publisher=Journal of Chemical Education |location=Easton, PA |page=66 |oclc=2640159 |ol=6411359M}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Newton |first=David E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F29kaFKuJdMC&dq=%22Fahlberg+is+a+scoundrel.+It+nauseates+me+to+hear+my+name+mentioned+in+the+same+breath+with+him.%22&pg=PA63 |title=Food Chemistry |date=2009 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-1-4381-0975-6 |language=en}}</ref> The controversy would enter court when Constantine Fahlberg, Adolph List, George Merck and Theodore Weicker went to court to sue A. Klipstein & Company of New York for patent violation. Klipstein used the claim that Remsen and Fahlberg were involved in the discovery and that Fahlberg had falsely claimed himself as the inventor. Remsen's testimony was also included in the case, but the documents are lost. The suit was ultimately dropped. When the American Chemical Society gave him the Priestley medal in 1923 the citation would mention that Remsen served the science of chemistry and sought no commercial gains from his work.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Warner |first=Deborah J. |date=2008 |title=Ira Remsen, Saccharin, and the Linear Model |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/174582308X255415 |journal=Ambix |language=en |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=50–61 |doi=10.1179/174582308X255415 |pmid=18831154 |issn=0002-6980|url-access=subscription }}</ref> left|thumb|Cartoon depicting Remsen's position while serving on various committees, c. 1910 Throughout his academic career, Remsen was known as an excellent teacher, rigorous in his expectations but patient with the beginner. "His lectures to beginners were models of didactic exposition, and many of his graduate students owe much of their later success in their own lecture rooms to the pedagogical training received from attendance upon Remsen's lectures to freshmen."<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Ira Remsen: Erstwhile Dean of Baltimore Chemists |last=Getman |first=Frederick H. |date=August 1939 |journal=Journal of Chemical Education |doi=10.1021/ed016p353 |volume=16 |issue=8 |pages=353|bibcode=1939JChEd..16..353G }}</ref> Remsen made his teaching laboratory centric. He founded the ''American Chemical Journal'' that he edited out of Baltimore and competed with the ''Journal of the American Chemical Society'' run by the American Chemical Society. The latter journal did not publish much in organic chemistry. Remsen had joined the ACS in 1878, but he let his membership expire. When he rejoined he was elected president in 1902. In 1913, he allowed his journal to be merged into the ACS journal.<ref name=":2" />

In 1901 Remsen was appointed the president of Johns Hopkins,<ref name="J.H.Gazette" /> where he proceeded to found a School of Engineering<ref>{{cite web |title=Notable and Historical Figures |url=https://www.nymc.edu/about/history/notable-historical-figures/ |website=nymc.edu |publisher=New York Medical College |access-date=January 3, 2024 |language=en |quote=}}</ref> and helped establish the school as a research university. He introduced many of the German laboratory techniques he had learned and wrote several important chemistry textbooks. In 1912, he stepped down as president, due to ill health, and retired to Carmel, California.<ref name="RACI">{{cite web |last1=Palmer |first1=William P. |title=Ira Remsen: Stories for chemical education |url=https://chemaust.raci.org.au/article/septemberoctober-2018/ira-remsen-stories-chemical-education.html |website=Chemistry in Australia magazine |publisher=The Royal Australian Chemical Institute |access-date=February 9, 2021 |language=en |date=August 22, 2018 |quote=He resigned as President of Johns Hopkins University in April 1912 due to ill health. ... Remsen did not retire completely until his 80th birthday in 1926. He died in Carmel, California, on 4 March 1927. |archive-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213020557/https://chemaust.raci.org.au/article/septemberoctober-2018/ira-remsen-stories-chemical-education.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> While serving as a president of Johns Hopkins, he also took part in civil projects. He served on the Baltimore School Commission in efforts to improve the infrastructure of secondary education. In 1906, he was also involved in improvements to the Baltimore sewerage system. He also served on the Maryland Good Roads Commission. In 1909, he was posted as chairman of a board that dealt with food purity under the department of agriculture. The board came to be popularly called the "Remsen Board". There was considerable pressure from manufacturers to vilify the members of the board who were criticized in the press. A cartoon from this period depicted him sitting on a board with nails.<ref name=":3" />

==Death== He died on March 4, 1927, in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. His ashes are interred behind a plaque in the chemistry building on the Homewood campus at Johns Hopkins University.<ref name="J.H.Gazette"/><ref name="RACI"/>

== Legacy == In the 37 years of his service he guided 107 PhD students.<ref>{{cite news |date=September 3, 1923 |title=Chemistry Award For Dr. Ira Remsen. Priestley Medal Will Be Bestowed Upon Him at Chemical Society's Annual Meeting |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/09/03/archives/chemistry-award-for-dr-ira-remsen-priestley-medal-will-be-be-stowed.html |access-date=October 29, 2010 |work=New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Chemical & Engineering News: The Priestly Medal - 1923: Ira Remsen (1846–1927) |url=http://pubs.acs.org/cen/priestley/recipients/1923remsen.html}}</ref> In 1925 eighty-four of his students held positions as professors and forty were heads of chemistry departments in the US.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hannaway |first=Owen |date=1976 |title=The German Model of Chemical Education in America: Ira Remsen at Johns Hopkins (1876–1913) |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/amb.1976.23.3.145 |journal=Ambix |language=en |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=145–164 |doi=10.1179/amb.1976.23.3.145 |pmid=11615603 |issn=0002-6980|url-access=subscription }}</ref> After his death, the new chemistry building, completed in 1924, was named after him at Johns Hopkins. His ashes are located behind a plaque in Remsen Hall; he is the only person buried on campus.<ref name="J.H.Gazette"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/plaque-celebrating-chemist-and-second-president-of-johns-news-photo/528194388|title=A plaque celebrating chemist and second president of Johns Hopkins...|website=Getty Images|date=May 23, 2016 }}</ref>

His Baltimore house was added to the National Register of Historic Places and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2008a}}</ref>

Remsen Hall in Queens College is also named for him.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Watman |first1=Deborah |title=A $2 million renovation for the laboratories in Remsen Hall |url=https://www.theknightnews.com/2014/09/17/a-2-million-renovation-for-the-laboratories-in-remsen-hall/ |access-date=February 9, 2021 |work=The Knight News |date=September 17, 2014 |quote=Built in 1949, Remsen Hall, named after famous chemist {{sic|Ida}} Remsen who began the first PhD program for chemistry in the United States...}}</ref>

== Remsen Award == In 1946, to commemorate the centenary of Remsen, the Maryland chapter of the American Chemical Society, began awarding the Remsen award, in his honor.<ref name="Remsen57">{{cite journal |journal=Chesapeake Chemist |volume=13 |issue=5 |last=Burgison |first=Raymond M. |title=The Remsen Memorial Lecture 1946–1957 |pages=9–10 |url=http://maryland.sites.acs.org/Chesapeake%20Chemist/Archives/1957/May%201957.pdf |date=May 1, 1957 |access-date=October 18, 2018 |quote=It was the intention of the Maryland Section that Remsen Memorial Lecturers should be chemists of outstanding ability, as exemplified by Ira Remsen's long and devoted career as an exponent of the highest standard in teaching and research in chemistry. That the intentions of the Section have been fulfilled is attested by the great honor and esteem that have become associated with the receipt of the Remsen Lectureship. }}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="Nature">{{cite journal |title=American Chemical Society Awards: Priestley Medal |journal=Nature |volume=158 |issue=4011 |year=1946 |issn=0028-0836 |doi=10.1038/158371c0 |pages=371–372|bibcode=1946Natur.158S.371. |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Winslow">{{cite journal |last=Hartford |first=Winslow H. |year=1946 |title=Ira Remsen and Roger Adams--A Chemical Centennial |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_scientific-monthly_1946-10_63_4/page/260 |journal=The Scientific Monthly |volume=63 |issue=4 |pages=261–267 |quote=The year 1946 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Ira Remsen, first professor of chemistry and second president of The Johns Hopkins University. The chemists of Maryland, through the Maryland Section of the American Chemical Society, have appropriately chosen this year to initiate a series of lectures in his honor, and Professor Roger Adams of the University of Illinois was selected as the first Remsen Lecturer.|jstor=18751 |bibcode=1946SciMo..63..261H }}</ref><ref name="book">{{cite book |author=National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) |author2=National Research Council (U.S.) |title=Scientific and Technical Societies of the United States and Canada |publisher=National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council |series=Publication (National Research Council (U.S.))) |year=1955 |edition=6th |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3lIZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA43 |access-date=November 13, 2018 |page=43}}</ref> Awardees are frequently of the highest caliber, and included a sequence of 16 Nobel laureates between 1950 and 1980.

;Recipients<ref>{{cite web |title=Remsen Award |url=https://acsmaryland.org/remsen-award/ |publisher=The Maryland Section of the American Chemical Society |access-date=February 10, 2021}}</ref>: {{div col|colwidth=20em}} * 1946: Roger Adams<ref name="Nature" /><ref name="Winslow" /><ref name="Adams">{{cite journal |title=Roger Adams Delivers First Remsen Memorial Lecture at Johns Hopkins |journal=Chemical & Engineering News |volume=24 |issue=12 |date=June 25, 1946 |issn=0009-2347 |doi=10.1021/cen-v024n012.p1642 |page=1642}}</ref><ref name="NYT">{{cite web |title=Prof. Adams to Give Lecture |website=The New York Times |date=May 12, 1946 |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/05/12/93095259.html |access-date=November 13, 2018}}</ref> * 1947: Samuel C. Lind<ref name="Lind">{{cite journal |last=LIND |first=S. C. |title=Fifty Years of Atomic Research |journal=Chemical & Engineering News |volume=25 |issue=35 |year=1947 |issn=0009-2347 |doi=10.1021/cen-v025n035.p2495 |pages=2495–2499}}</ref> * 1948: Elmer V. McCollum<ref name="McCollum">{{cite journal |title=McCollum Delivers Remsen Memorial Lecture |journal=Chemical & Engineering News |volume=26 |issue=25 |date=June 21, 1948 |issn=0009-2347 |doi=10.1021/cen-v026n025.p1833 |pages=1833–1834}}</ref> * 1949: Joel H. Hildebrand<ref name="Hildebrand">{{cite journal |title=Joel H. Hildebrand to Deliver Remsen Memorial Lecture |journal=Chemical & Engineering News |volume=27 |issue=20 |date=May 16, 1949 |issn=0009-2347 |doi=10.1021/cen-v027n020.p1429 |page=1429}}</ref> * 1950: Edward C. Kendall<ref name="Kendall">{{cite book |last=Ingle |first=Dwight J. | title=Biographical Memoirs: V.47 - Edward C. Kendall (chapter 7)| publisher=National Academies Press | publication-place=Washington, D.C. | date=1975 | isbn=978-0-309-02245-3 | doi=10.17226/570 | url=https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/570/chapter/9 | access-date=2025-09-22 | pages=248–291}}</ref> 18px|link=Nobel Prize * 1951: Hugh Stott Taylor * 1952: W. Mansfield Clark<ref name="Science">{{cite journal |title=News and Notes |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_science_1952-06-06_115_2997/page/616 |journal=Science |volume=115 |issue=2997 |date=June 6, 1952 |issn=0036-8075 |doi=10.1126/science.115.2997.617 |pages=617–620 |bibcode=1952Sci...115..617. }}</ref><ref name="Clark">{{cite journal |title=NEWS-MAKERS |journal=Chemical & Engineering News |volume=30 |issue=13 |date=March 31, 1952 |issn=0009-2347 |doi=10.1021/cen-v030n013.p1314 |pages=1314–1318|doi-access=free }}</ref> * 1953: Edward L. Tatum<ref name="Tatum">{{cite book |last=Lederberg |first=Joshua |title= "Biographical Memoirs: V.59 - Edward Lawrie Tatum" |date=1990 |doi=10.17226/1652 |url=https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/1652/chapter/18 |access-date=November 20, 2018|isbn=978-0-309-04198-0 }}</ref> 18px|link=Nobel Prize * 1954: Vincent du Vigneaud<ref name="Vigneaud">{{cite book |last=Hofmann |first=Klaus |title= Biographical Memoirs: V.56 | chapter= Vincent du Vigneaud |date=1987 |doi=10.17226/897 |url=https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/897/chapter/20 |access-date=November 20, 2018|isbn=978-0-309-03693-1 }}</ref> 18px|link=Nobel Prize * 1955: Willard F. Libby<ref name="Libby">{{cite web |title=Finding Aid for the Willard F. Libby Papers |website=Online Archive of California |date=December 17, 1908 |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt9j49q5hh/entire_text/ |access-date=November 20, 2018}}</ref> 18px|link=Nobel Prize * 1956: Farrington Daniels<ref name="Daniels">{{cite book |last=Alberty |first=Robert A. |title= "Biographical Memoirs: V.65" | chapter=Farrington Daniels |date=1994 |doi=10.17226/4548 |url=https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/4548/chapter/6 | publisher=The National Academies Press | location=Washington, DC |access-date=November 20, 2018|isbn=978-0-309-05037-1 }}</ref> * 1957: Melvin Calvin<ref name="Calvin">{{cite journal |journal=Chesapeake Chemist |volume=13 |issue=5 |date=May 1, 1957 |last=Calvin |first=Melvin |title=The Twelfth Remsen Lecture |pages=5–6 |url=http://maryland.sites.acs.org/Chesapeake%20Chemist/Archives/1957/May%201957.pdf |access-date=October 18, 2018 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 18px|link=Nobel Prize * 1958: Robert B. Woodward 18px|link=Nobel Prize * 1959: Edward Teller * 1960: Henry Eyring (chemist)<ref name="Eyring">{{cite web |title=Archives West: Henry Eyring papers, 1915-2010 |website=Archives West |date=February 22, 1999 |url=http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv12634 |access-date=November 20, 2018}}</ref> 18px|link=Wolf Prize * 1961: Herbert C. Brown 18px|link=Nobel Prize * 1962: George Porter 18px|link=Nobel Prize * 1963: Harold C. Urey<ref name="Urey">{{cite web |title=Urey (Harold Clayton) Papers |website=Online Archive of California |date=February 14, 1935 |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf4c6006zq/entire_text/ |access-date=November 20, 2018}}</ref> 18px|link=Nobel Prize * 1964: Paul Doughty Bartlett * 1965: James R. Arnold<ref name="Arnold">{{cite web |title=Dr. James Arnold selected to give Ira Remsen M... |website=UC San Diego Library &#124; Digital Collections |date=May 29, 1965 |url=https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb6724887j |access-date=November 20, 2018}}</ref> * 1966: Paul H. Emmett * 1967: Marshall W. Nirenberg 18px|link=Nobel Prize * 1968: Har Gobind Khorana 18px|link=Nobel Prize * 1969: Albert L. Lehninger * 1970: George S. Hammond * 1971: George C. Pimentel 18px|link=Wolf Prize * 1972: Charles H. Townes 18px|link=Nobel Prize * 1973: Frank H. Westheimer * 1974: Elias J. Corey<ref name="Corey">{{cite web |title=Awards: Elias James Corey |website=Harvard Computer Society |url=http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/coreylab/about/majorawards.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120221018/http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/coreylab/about/majorawards.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 20, 2018 |access-date=November 20, 2018 }}</ref> 18px|link=Nobel Prize 18px|link=Wolf Prize * 1975: Henry Taube 18px|link=Nobel Prize * 1976: William N. Lipscomb Jr.<ref name="Lipscomb">{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1976 |website=NobelPrize.org |date=December 11, 1976 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1976/lipscomb/lecture/ |access-date=November 20, 2018}}</ref> 18px|link=Nobel Prize * 1977: Ronald Breslow * 1978: John Charles Polanyi<ref name="Polanyi">{{cite web |title=Polanyi, J. C., 1929- |website=Niels Bohr Library & Archives |url=https://history.aip.org/phn/11807010.html |access-date=November 20, 2018}}</ref> 18px|link=Nobel Prize * 1979: Harry B. Gray 18px|link=Wolf Prize * 1980: Roald Hoffman 18px|link=Nobel Prize * 1981: Koji Nakanishi<ref name="Nakanishi">{{cite web |title=People: Columbia Professor To Receive ACS Organic Chemistry Award |website=The Scientist Magazine® |date=February 5, 1990 |url=https://www.the-scientist.com/profession/people-columbia-professor-to-receive-acs-organic-chemistry-award-61554 |access-date=November 20, 2018}}</ref> * 1982: Harden McConnell 18px|link=Wolf Prize * 1983: George M. Whitesides * 1984: Earl L. Muetterties * 1985: Richard N. Zare<ref name="Zare">{{cite web |title=About Richard N. Zare |website=Stanford University |url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/Zarelab/about.html |access-date=November 20, 2018}}</ref> * 1986: Gilbert Stork 18px|link=Wolf Prize * 1987: Stephen J. Lippard * 1988: Mildred Cohn * 1989: K. Barry Sharpless<ref name="Sharpless">{{cite journal |title=F. A. Cotton Medal: K. B. Sharpless / Remsen Award: E. A. Carter / Janssen Pharmaceutica Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis: J. F. Hartwig |journal=Angewandte Chemie International Edition |volume=53 |issue=25 |date=June 12, 2014 |issn=1433-7851 |doi=10.1002/anie.201405110 |pages=6306}}</ref> 18px|link=Nobel Prize 18px|link=Wolf Prize * 1990: Robert G. Bergman 18px|link=Wolf Prize * 1991: Rudolph A. Marcus<ref name="Marcus">{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992 |website=NobelPrize.org |date=December 8, 1992 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1992/marcus/lecture/ |access-date=November 20, 2018}}</ref> 18px|link=Nobel Prize * 1992: William Klemperer * 1993: Christopher T. Walsh * 1994: Edward I. Solomon * 1995: Alfred G. Redfield * 1996: David A. Evans * 1997: William Hughes Miller * 1998: Peter Dervan<ref name="Dervan">{{cite web |title=Professor Dervan |website=Dervan Group Homepage |url=http://dervan.caltech.edu/dervan.html |access-date=November 20, 2018 |archive-date=July 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702082511/http://dervan.caltech.edu/dervan.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 1999: {{ill|Thomas J. Meyer|qid=Q56669289}} * 2000: Alexander Pines 18px|link=Wolf Prize * 2001: Ad Bax<ref name="Bax">{{cite web |title=Ad Bax Group / NIH |website=NMR Groups in the Laboratory of Chemical Physics |url=https://spin.niddk.nih.gov/bax/people/bax.html |access-date=November 20, 2018}}</ref> * 2002: {{ill|Matthew S. Platz|qid=Q57440948}} * 2003: Henry F. Schaefer III * 2004: Samuel Danishefsky 18px|link=Wolf Prize * 2005: Judith P. Klinman * 2006: Gabor A. Somorjai<ref name="Somorjai">{{cite web |title=Gábor A. Somorjai |website=Chem-Station Int. Ed. |date=December 25, 2013 |url=https://en.chem-station.com/chemists/2013/12/gabor-a-somorjai.html |access-date=November 20, 2018}}</ref> 18px|link=Wolf Prize * 2007: {{ill|Peter F. Leadlay|qid=Q21165144}}<ref name="Leadlay">{{citation | chapter=Leadlay, Prof. Peter Francis, (born 13 Dec. 1949), Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, since 2006; Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, since 1979; Co-Founder and Director, BIOTICA Technology Ltd, 1996–2013 | publisher=Oxford University Press | date=December 1, 2007 | doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u24043 | title=Who's Who }}</ref> * 2008: John C. Tully * 2009: Jean Frechet * 2010: John T. Groves<ref name="Groves">{{cite journal |title=John Groves Takes Remsen Award |volume=88 |issue=16 |journal=Chemical & Engineering News |date=April 19, 2010 |url=https://cen.acs.org/articles/88/i16/John-Groves-Takes-Remsen-Award.html |access-date=November 14, 2018}}</ref> * 2011: Graham R. Fleming<ref name="Fleming">{{cite web |title=Fleming Wins 2011 Remsen Award |website=Today at Berkeley Lab |date=December 8, 2010 |url=https://today.lbl.gov/2010/12/08/fleming-wins-2011-remsen-award/ |access-date=November 14, 2018}}</ref> * 2012: Daniel G. Nocera<ref name="Nocera">{{cite web |title=MARM 2012 – Remsen Award and Symposium |website=MARM – Middle Atlantic Regional Meetings of the ACS |date=May 12, 2012 |url=http://marmacs.org/2012/RemsenAward.html |access-date=November 14, 2018}}</ref> * 2013: Eric Jacobsen<ref name="Jacobsen">{{cite web |title=2013 Remson Award |website=Harvard Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology |date=February 5, 2013 |url=https://chemistry.harvard.edu/news/2013-remson-award |access-date=November 13, 2018}}</ref> * 2014: Emily A. Carter<ref name="Carter">{{cite web |title=Talks and Awards – The Carter Group |website=carter.princeton.edu |date=October 10, 2014 |url=https://carter.princeton.edu/talks-and-awards/ |access-date=November 13, 2018}}</ref> * 2015: JoAnne Stubbe<ref name="Stubbe">{{cite journal |last=Wang |first=Linda |title=2015 Remsen Award To JoAnne Stubbe |journal=Chemical & Engineering News |date=May 4, 2015 |url=https://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i18/2015-Remsen-Award-JoAnne-Stubbe.html |volume=93 |issue=18 |page=34 |doi=10.1016/j.cej.2015.06.095 |access-date=November 13, 2018|url-access=subscription }}</ref> * 2016: Charles M. Lieber<ref name="Lieber">{{cite web |title=Dr. Charles M. Lieber Delivers 71st Remsen Award Lecture |website=Johns Hopkins University – Department of Chemistry |date=May 16, 2016 |url=https://chemistry.jhu.edu/2016/05/16/dr-charles-m-lieber-delivers-71st-remsen-award-lecture/ |access-date=November 13, 2018 |archive-date=November 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114010823/https://chemistry.jhu.edu/2016/05/16/dr-charles-m-lieber-delivers-71st-remsen-award-lecture/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> 18px|link=Wolf Prize * 2017: Robert H. Grubbs<ref name="Grubbs">{{cite journal |last=Wang |first=Linda |title=Robert Grubbs wins Remsen Award |journal=Chemical & Engineering News |date=February 13, 2017 |volume=95 |issue=7 |page=37 |doi=10.1016/j.ces.2016.09.026 |url=https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i7/Robert-Grubbs-wins-Remsen-Award.html?type=paidArticleContent |access-date=November 13, 2018|url-access=subscription }}</ref> 18px|link=Nobel Prize * 2018: Chad Mirkin<ref name="Mirkin">{{cite journal |journal=Chesapeake Chemist |volume=75 |issue=2 |date=February 1, 2018 |title=What can ACS local sections do for you? |page=5 |url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmaryland.sites.acs.org%2F2018_Feb_Chesapeake_ChemistDraft%5B13295%5D.doc |access-date=November 13, 2018}}</ref> * 2019: Catherine J. Murphy<ref>{{cite web |title=Catherine J. Murphy wins the 2019 Remsen Award {{!}} Chemistry at Illinois |url=https://chemistry.illinois.edu/news/2019-02-18/catherine-j-murphy-wins-2019-remsen-award |website=chemistry.illinois.edu |access-date=February 10, 2021 |language=en}}</ref> * 2020: Tom W. Muir<ref>{{cite journal |title=Remsen Award presented to Tom Muir |journal=C&EN Global Enterprise |pages=37 |doi=10.1021/cen-09846-awards3 |date=November 30, 2020|last1=Linda Wang |volume=98 |issue=46 |doi-access=free |s2cid=229386424 }}</ref> * 2021: Todd Martinez * 2022: Scott Miller * 2023: Steven Sibener<ref>[https://acsmaryland.org/remsen-award/ Remsen Award of the American Chemical Society]</ref> {{div col end}}

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== Further reading == * {{cite journal |title=Ira Remsen |author=Noyes W. A. |journal=Science |pages=243–246 |volume=66 |year=1927 |doi=10.1126/science.66.1707.243 |pmid=17742012 |issue=1707|bibcode=1927Sci....66..243N }}

== External links == {{Commons category}} {{Wikiquote}} * [http://pages.jh.edu/~gazette/2000/sep1100/11remsen.html Ira Remsen: The Chemistry was Right] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070812181632/http://afam.nts.jhu.edu/chronology/1910.html The History of African-Americans at The Johns Hopkins University]. * {{Biographical Memoirs|remsen-ira}} * [http://ead.library.jhu.edu/ms039.xml Papers of Ira Remsen] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610094333/http://ead.library.jhu.edu/ms039.xml |date=June 10, 2016 }}

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