Nakanishi Prize Recipients

Congratulations to the past recipients of the Nakanishi Prize, which recognizes and stimulates significant work that extends chemical and spectroscopic methods to the study of important biological phenomena.


  • 2024 -聽Minoru Isobe
  • 2023 - Gilad Haran
  • 2022 -聽Takenori Kusumi
  • 2021 - Mei Hong
  • 2020 -聽Kishi Yoshito
  • 2019 - Lewis E. Kay
  • 2018 - Nobuyuki Harada
  • 2017 - Martin Gruebele
  • 2016 -聽Shoichi Kusumoto
  • 2015 - Fred W. McLafferty
  • 2014 -聽Jerrold Meinwald
  • 2013 - Arthur G. Palmer, III
  • 2012 -聽Daisuke Uemura
  • 2011 - C. Dale Poulter
  • 2010 -聽Shosuke Yamamura
  • 2009 - JoAnne Stubbe
  • 2008 -聽Michel Rohmer
  • 2007 - Hung-Wen Liu
  • 2006 -聽聽Takeshi Yasumoto
  • 2005 - Stephen J. Benkovic
  • 2004 -聽Isao Kitagawa
  • 2003 - A. Ian Scott
  • 2002 - Sir Jack Baldwin
  • 2001 - John D. Roberts
  • 2000 - Satoshi 艑mura
  • 1999 - Jeremy R. Knowles
  • 1998 -聽Albert J. Eschenmoser
  • 1997 - Frank H. Westheimer
  • 1996 -聽Yoshimasa Hirata

The Nakanishi Prize is presented by the ACS in odd-numbered years and by the in even-numbered years.