Honors and Awards
- Elected to National Academy of Sciences, 1945
- Iowa Award and Midwest Award of American Chemical Society, 1951
- Honorary Fellow of the British Chemical Society, 1961
- First American Chemical Society Frederic Stanley Kipping Award in Organosilicon Chemistry, 1962
- Distinguished Fellowship Awards, Iowa Academy of Sciences, 1975
- Priestley Medal of the American Chemical Society, 1977
- Iowa Governor's Science Medal, 1982
Along with his numerous state, national, and international awards and honors, Gilman has had many tributes in his memory at Iowa State University. In 1962, Gilman became a distinguished professor at ISU. The chemistry building on Iowa State University's campus was renamed Gilman Hall in 1974. That same year, the annual series of Gilman Lectures was established. In his memory, the Gilman Graduate Fellowship Fund was established in 1987.
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