Texas A&M Section of the American Chemical Society 1995 F. Albert Cotton, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University. 1996 George A. Olah, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California; 1997 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris, Collège de France; 1998 JoAnne Stubbe, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 1999 Alexander Pines, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley; 2000 Tobin J. Marks, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University; 2001 Samuel J. Danishefsky, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University; 2002 Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science; 2003 Gabor A. Somorjai, University of California, Berkeley; 2004 Albert Eschenmoser, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, and Scripps Research Institute; 2005 Richard H. Holm, Harvard University; 2006 Robin M. Hochstrasser, University of Pennsylvania; 2007 Jacqueline K. Barton, California Institute of Technology; 2008 Chi-Huey Wong, The Scripps Research Institute, and National Taiwan University; 2009 Richard N. Zare, Stanford University; 2010 Peter J. Stang, University of Utah; 2011 George M. Whitesides, Harvard University; 2012 R. Graham Cooks, Purdue University; 2013 Brian M. Hoffman, Northwestern University; 2014 K. Barry Sharpless, The Scripps Research Institute; 2015 Douglas C. Rees, California Institute of Technology; 2016 Stephen J. Lippard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 2017 Jennifer A. Doudna, University of California, Berkeley; 2018 Harry B. Gray, California Institute of Technology; 2019 A. Paul Alivisatos, University of California, Berkeley; 2020 Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Stanford University; 2021 (no prize awarded); Death Cotton died on February 20, 2007, in College Station, Texas from complications of a head injury he suffered in a fall in October 2006. He was survived by his wife, the former Diane Dornacher, whom he married in 1959, and their two daughters, Jennifer and Jane. The Brazos County Sheriff's Department opened an investigation into his death, describing his death as "suspicious". See also List of chemistry awards References 1930 births 2007 deaths Members of the French Academy of Sciences Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Foreign Members of the Royal Society Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 20th-century American chemists Harvard University alumni Inorganic chemists Texas A&M University faculty Wolf Prize in Chemistry laureates