Technology (1988) American Chemical Society Baekeland Medal (1991), first woman recipient Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991) MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1991) Garvan Medal of the American Chemical Society (1992) Tolman Award of the American Chemical Society (1994), first woman recipient Havinga Medal (1995) Paul Karrer Gold Medal (1996), first woman recipient Skidmore College honorary Doctor of Laws degree (1997) Nichols Medal of the American Chemical Society (1997), first woman recipient Weizmann Women & Science Award (1998) elected American Philosophical Society (2000) elected National Academy of Sciences (2002) Ronald Breslow Award in Biomimetic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society (2003) Yale University honorary Doctor of Science degree (2005) Hamilton College honorary Doctor of Science degree (2005) ACS Gibbs Medal (2006) Linus Pauling Award (2007) F.A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research of the American Chemical Society (2007) National Medal of Science (2011) elected Institute of Medicine (2012) Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS) (2014) Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2014) American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (2015) Priestley Medal (2015) Centenary Prize (2018) from the Royal Society of Chemistry Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2018) NAS Award in Chemical Sciences (2019) References 1952 births 20th-century chemists 21st-century chemists 20th-century American women scientists 21st-century American women scientists American physical chemists Women physical chemists Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences National Medal of Science laureates Barnard College alumni Living people Hunter College faculty MacArthur Fellows Directors of Dow Inc. California Institute of Technology faculty Recipients of the Garvan–Olin Medal Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the American Chemical Society Members of the American Philosophical Society Riverdale Country School alumni American women academics Columbia University faculty Members of the National Academy of Medicine