Carl Djerassi - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.

• Perkin Medal (1975)
• Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (1978)
• Ernest Guenther Award of the American Chemical Society (1969)
• National Medal of Science (President of the United States of America, 1973) for his work on the contraceptive pill (The award was somewhat ironic in that his name at the time was on the infamous "Nixon's enemies list", which was compiled by Charles Colson and Richard Nixon. He learned this from an article in the San Francisco Examiner, several months later.)
• National Medal of Technology (President of the United States of America, 1991) for "his broad technological contributions to solving environmental problems; and for his initiatives in developing novel, practical approaches to insect control products that are biodegradable and harmless"
• Priestley Medal (American Chemical Society, 1992)
• Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (1999)
• Prize of the German Chemical Society for Writers (2001)
• Grand Gold Medal for services to the province of Lower Austria (2002)
• Gold Medal of the capital Vienna (2002)
• Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2003)
• Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea (2003)
• American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (2004)
• Lichtenberg Medal of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences (2005)
• Premio letterario Serono in Rome (2005)
• An Austrian postage stamp with Djerassi's portrait, issued to mark his 80th birthday (2005) The Austrian government also sent him a new Austrian passport.
• Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria (2008)
• Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities of the Technical University of Dortmund for his literary work (as 21 honorary doctorate) (2009)
• Alecrin Prize (2009, Vigo, Spain)
• Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2010)
• Edinburgh Medal (2011)
• Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences, Heidelberg University (2011)
• Honorary Doctorate from the University of Vienna (2012)

Djerassi Glacier on Brabant Island in Antarctica is named after Carl Djerassi.