Jewish Recipients of the Priestley Medal

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Listed below are recipients of the Priestley Medal in Chemistry who were, or are, Jewish. The Priestley Medal is the American Chemical Society's most prestigious award.

Sir Ian Heilbron (1945)
H. I. Schlesinger (1959)
Max Tishler (1970)
Henry Gilman (1977)
Melvin Calvin (1978)
Milton Harris (1980)
Herbert C. Brown (1981)
Frank Westheimer (1988)
Roald Hoffmann (1990)
Carl Djerassi (1992)
Ernest Eliel (1996)
Ronald Breslow (1999)
Allen Bard (2002)
George Olah (2005)
Gabor Somorjai (2008)
Richard Zare (2010)
Robert Langer (2012)
Stephen Lippard (2014)
Jacqueline Barton (2015)
Tobin Marks (2017)

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