The annual Remsen Memorial Lectures were inaugurated in May 1946 by the Maryland Section of the ACS to honor Ira Remsen, first Professor of Chemistry and second President of the Johns Hopkins University. The Remsen Memorial Lecturers are chemists of outstanding achievement in keeping with Ira Remsen’s long and devoted career as an exponent of the highest standards in teaching and research in chemistry.
Previous Recipients of the Award
| 1946 Roger Adams | 1967 Marshall W. Nirenberg | 1988 Mildred Cohn |
| 1947 Samuel C. Lind | 1968 Har G. Khorana | 1989 K. Barry Sharpless |
| 1948 Elmer V. McCollum | 1969 Albert L. Lehninger | 1990 Robert G. Bergman |
| 1949 Joel H. Hildebrand | 1970 George S. Hammond | 1991 Rudolph A. Marcus |
| 1950 Edward C. Kendall | 1971 George C. Pimentel | 1992 William Klemperer |
| 1951 Hugh S. Taylor | 1972 Charles H. Townes | 1993 Christopher T. Walsh |
| 1952 W. Mansfield Clark | 1973 Frank H. Westheimer | 1994 Edward L. Solomon |
| 1953 Edward L. Tatum | 1974 Elias J. Corey | 1995 Alfred G. Redfield |
| 1954 Vincent du Vigneaud | 1975 Henry Taube | 1996 David A. Evans |
| 1955 Willard F. Libby | 1976 William N. Lipscomb, Jr. | 1997 Bill Miller |
| 1956 Farrington Daniels | 1977 Ronald Breslow | 1998 Peter Dervan |
| 1957 Melvin Calvin | 1978 John Charles Polanyi | 1999 Tom Meyer |
| 1958 Robert B. Woodward | 1979 Harry B. Gray | 2000 Alexander Pines |
| 1959 Edward Teller | 1980 Ronald Hoffman | 2001 Ad Bax |
| 1960 Henry Eyring | 1981 Koji Nakanishi | 2002 Mattew S. Platz |
| 1961 Herbert C. Brown | 1982 Harden McConnell | 2003 Henry F. Schaefer III |
| 1962 George Porter | 1983 George M. Whitesides | 2004 Samuel Danishefsky |
| 1963 Harold C. Urey | 1984 Earl L. Muetterties | 2005 ? |
| 1964 Paul D. Bartlett | 1985 Richard N. Zare | 2006 ? |
| 1965 James R. Arnold | 1986 Gilbert Stork | 2007 ? |
| 1966 Paul H. Emmett | 1987 Stephen J. Lippard | 2008 ? |
