Scheele Award

The Scheele Award (Scheelepriset) is a scientific award given by the Swedish Apotekarsocieteten, an organisation mainly consisting of pharmacists. The award is given to commemorate the pharmacist and chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786) and has been appointed since 1961, in the beginning annually but later biannually. The award is given to "a particularly prominent and internationally renowned pharmaceutical scientist".[1]

A symposium, the Scheele Symposium, on the topics of interest of the laureate in question is held in November, in connection with the prize ceremony.

List of laureates

Year Laureate 2019 Emmanuelle Charpentier 2017 Charles Sawyers 2015 Robert S. Langer[2] 2013 Garret A. FitzGerald[3] 2011 Kathleen Giacomini 2009 Dennis J. Slamon 2007 Mathias Uhlén 2005 Jan van der Greef 2003 Jonathan A. Ellman 2001 Andrew H. Wyllie 2000 Douwe Breimer

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Year Laureate 1999 John W. Daly 1998 Albert I. Wertheimer 1997 Julian E. Davies 1996 Gordon L. Amidon 1995 Patrik J. Hendra 1994 Greg Winter 1993 Alexander T. Florence 1992 Koji Nakanishi 1991 K. Barry Sharpless 1990 Gerhard Levy

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Year Laureate 1989 Dennis V. Parke 1988 David V. Goeddel 1987 Roland W. Frei 1986 Luc Montagnier 1985 Stanley S. Davis 1984 Malcolm Rowland 1983 James W. Black 1982 Charles Weissmann 1981 George Aghajanian 1980 Harri R. Nevanlinna

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Year Laureate 1979 Peter Speiser 1978 Sidney Riegelman 1977 Hans W. Kosterlitz 1976 Evan C. Horning 1975 Edward P. Abraham 1974 E.J. Ariens 1973 Harold N. MacFarland 1972 Carl Djerassi 1971 Albert Hofmann 1970 Norman J. Harper

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Year Laureate 1969 Takeru Higuchi 1968 Arnold Beckett 1967 Bernard B. Brodie 1966 no prize was given 1965 Paul Janssen 1964 Lewis H. Sarett 1963 Robert Schwyzer 1962 Peter Doyle 1961 Frank Rose

Notes

1. "About | The Scheele Award". scheeleaward.se. Retrieved 2014-01-27.
2. "Robert S. Langer Honored by Scientific Community". Chemical Heritage Foundation. Archived from the original on July 12, 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
3. "Former Laureates". Apotekarsocieteten. Retrieved 29 November 2016.