named in his honor, 4314 Dervan. 1988 - Harrison Howe Award 1993 - Arthur C. Cope Award 1993 - Willard Gibbs Award 1994 - William H. Nichols Medal, for "his outstanding contributions in the field of bioorganic chemistry through the design and synthesis of sequence-specific DNA cleaving molecules." 1996 - Maison de la Chimie Foundation Prize 1998 - Remsen Award 1998 - Kirkwood Medal, for “outstanding research contributions, theoretical or experimental, in the physical sciences.” 1999 - Alfred Bader Award 1999 - Max Tishler Prize 1999 - Linus Pauling Award 1999 - Richard C. Tolman Medal 2000 - Tetrahedron Prize 2002 - Harvey Prize (Israel) 2005 - Ronald Breslow Award 2005 - Wilbur Cross Medal 2006 - National Medal of Science 2009 - Frank Westheimer Prize 2022 - Priestley Medal Personal In 1990, Dervan married Jacqueline Barton, a fellow chemist and professor at Caltech. He has a son, Andrew, from a previous marriage, and a daughter, Elizabeth, from his marriage with Barton. All four hold degrees from Yale University. Selected publications References External links Personal biography 1945 births Living people Organic chemists 21st-century American chemists Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Gilead Sciences people National Medal of Science laureates Members of the French Academy of Sciences California Institute of Technology faculty Boston College alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Yale University alumni Members of the National Academy of Medicine