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The Fred Basolo Medal is given for outstanding research in Inorganic Chemistry. It was established by the former students of Fred Basolo in appreciation of his contributions to inorganic chemistry at Northwestern University. Fred Basolo was born in Coello, Illinois in 1920 and received a B.Ed., at Southern Illinois Normal University. He then went to the University of Illinois where he received a Ph.D. with John C. Bailar, Jr. in 1943. After working on a classified military research project during WWII, he joined the faculty at Northwestern in 1946. Basolo was able to help make the Department of Chemistry one of the very best in inorganic chemistry in the U.S., a position it still maintains today. In 1980, the University honored him with the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professorship of Chemistry.He was also a truly gifted teacher. Many of his former students occupy prominent academic and industrial positions. Basolo influenced students worldwide to study inorganic chemistry and received the 1992 ACS Pimentel Award in Chemical Education. He published 400 scientific publications and four books.
Basolo’s contributions to the profession of chemistry were equally outstanding. He served as President of the American Chemical Society in 1983 and as Chairman of the Chemistry Section of AAAS in 1979. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Gordon Research Conferences and its chairman in 1976. Some of the many honors received by Basolo include membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, foreign membership in the Italian Academy of Sciences Lincei, as well as the ACS Awards for Research and for Service in Inorganic Chemistry. He received the first Joseph Chatt Medal, the 1996 Willard Gibbs Medal, and was the 2001 Priestley Medalist of the ACS.
Basolo Medalists:
Ralph G. Pearson, 1991
Henry Taube, 1992
Jack Halpern, 1993
Harry Gray, 1994
Lawrence Dahl, 1995
Richard H. Holm, 1996
Kenneth N. Raymond, 1997
Malcolm Green, 1998
Thomas J. Meyer, 1999
James P. Collman, 2000
M. Frederick Hawthorne, 2001
Stephen J. Lippard, 2002
Daryle H. Busch, 2003
Malcolm H. Chisholm, 2004
John E. Bercaw, 2005
Ivano Bertini, 2006
Richard R. Schrock, 2007
Robert H. Grubbs, 2008
Peter J. Stang, 2009
Roald Hoffmann, 2010
Gregory J. Kubas, 2011
Richard Eisenberg, 2012
Marcetta Y. Darensbourg, 2013
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