of the Royal Society 2004 The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry 2004 Wolf Prize in Chemistry 2009 Welch Award 2012 Inducted into the Alpha Chi Sigma Hall of Fame 2013 Othmer Gold Medal for outstanding contribution to chemistry and science. Wolf Prize He was awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2004 for his pioneering work in bioinorganic chemistry, unraveling novel principles of structure and long-range electron transfer in proteins. Gray has made generative contributions to the understanding of chemical bonding of metal complexes, mechanisms of inorganic reactions, spectroscopy and magneto-chemistry of inorganic compounds. His study of the first trigonal prismatic complexes is one such example. Harry Gray's most significant work lies at the interface between chemistry and biology. As a pioneer of the important and thriving field of bioinorganic chemistry, he has made many key contributions, the most important of which is the development of fundamental understanding of electron transfer in biological systems, at the atomic level. References 1935 births Living people People from Woodburn, Kentucky 21st-century American chemists Inorganic chemists Foreign Members of the Royal Society Northwestern University alumni Columbia University faculty California Institute of Technology faculty Wolf Prize in Chemistry laureates National Medal of Science laureates Western Kentucky University alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences