FAME 2016 Florida Award

Purpose:
To recognize leadership and contributions toward the advancement of the profession of chemistry.

Establishment and Support:
The award was established in 1952 by vote of the Florida Section of the American Chemical Society and has been given each year since then at the annual scientific meeting of the Florida Sections.

Nature:
The award consists of a plaque and $500, plus travel expenses for the purpose of attending the meeting to receive the award and to give an address. The Florida Section of the American Chemical Society will also provide up to $500 in support of the symposium centered around the award recipient's research interests. This specially organized symposium will be part of the Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition that is held in May each year unless the spring national ACS meeting is held in Orlando.

Rules of Eligibility:
A nominee must be a resident of the Southeastern United States and must have made outstanding contributions to teaching, research, publications or service in advancing the profession. The award recipient gives an address at the Annual Meeting.

To Submit a Nomination:
The nominator should obtain the consent of the nominee, complete the form available at http://fame2016.fl-acs.org/nomination.php outlining the nominee's qualifications and contributions to the profession which would be recognized by the Florida Award.

In addition, the following supporting documents are required:
(a) two seconding letters of support for the nomination and
(b) a copy of the nominee's current curriculum vitae.

Nomination forms and seconding letters must be received by Sunday December 10, 2015.

Note: The 2017 Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition (FAME 2017) will be held May 4-6, 2017 at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club near Tampa, FL. The award recipient is expected to give an address at the meeting during a special symposium centered around the recipient's research interests. Nominators should confirm that the nominee can be present to participate in the meeting program and to receive the Award.

Congratulations to Prof. Richard D. Adams
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC USA

Recipient of the 2016 Florida Award

Richard D. Adams received a B. S. degree from the Pennsylvania State University in 1969 and a Ph. D. in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973 for research in inorganic chemistry performed under the direction of F. A. Cotton. He was an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the State University of New York at Buffalo, 1973-75 and Assistant and Associate Professor at Yale University, 1975-84. In 1984 he moved to the University of South Carolina as Professor of Chemistry. In 1995 he was appointed as the Arthur S. Williams Professor of Chemistry, and in 2006 he was appointed Carolina Distinguished Professor. He is the recipient of a number of national and regional awards including the 1999 ACS Award for Inorganic Chemistry and the 2010 ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry. He also received the Charles H. Herty Medal of the Georgia section of the ACS; the Charles H. Stone award of the Carolina-Piedmont section of the ACS, and a Pioneer award from the American Institute of Chemists. He has also received the Outstanding South Carolina Chemist award by the South Carolina Section of the ACS, 2001; the Southern Chemist Award from Memphis Section of the ACS, 2001, and the South Carolina Governor's Award for Excellence in Science, 2003. He received the Henry J. Albert Award of the International Precious Metals Institute in 2005. He received the 2011 Distinguished Scientist Award of the Southeastern Universities Research Association. He is the American Regional Editor for the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry and a coeditor of the Journal of Cluster Science. He coeditor and coauthor of two texts, ÒThe Chemistry of Metal Cluster Complexes, 1990Ó with Du Shriver and Herb Kaesz and ÒCatalysis by Di- and Polynuclear Metal Cluster Complexes, 1998Ó with F. A. Cotton. His research interests lie in the synthesis, structures and catalytic properties of metal carbonyl cluster complexes and bimetallic nanoparticles. He is the author/coauthor of over 570 original research publications.

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Paul Gross (Duke University)

A. E. Wood (University of Mississippi)

C. B. Pollard (University of Florida)

H. E. Skipper (Southern Research Institute)

George K. Davis (University of Florida)

C. R. Hauser (Duke University)

Karl Dittmer (Florida State University)

J. E. Hawkins (University of Florida)

H. H. Sisler (University of Florida)

Michael Kasha (Florida State University)

Jack Hine (Georgia Institute of Technology)

George Butler (University of Florida)

C. T. Bahner (Carson-Newman College)

Werner Herz (Florida State University)

Paul Tarrant (University of Florida)

O. K. Rice (University of North Carolina)

Earl Frieden (Florida State University)

John Baxter (University of Florida)

S. P. McGlynn (Louisiana State University))

Ray Lawrence (USDA Naval Stores Laboratory)

James V. Quagliano (Florida State University)

Gregory Choppin (Florida State University)

Sidney Fox (University of Miami)

Dean F. Martin (University of South Florida)

William Jones (University of Florida)

Cecil Criss (University of Miami)

Harry Walborsky (Florida State University)

Mary Good (Louisiana State University)

Raymond Sheline (Florida State University)

Wallace Brey (University of Florida)

James D. Winefordner (University of Florida)

Theodore A. Ashford (University of South Florida)

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Leo Mandelkern (Florida State University)

Brian Stevens (University of South Florida)

Harry P. Schultz (University of Miami)

DeLos F. DeTar (Florida State University)

Edward K. Mellon (Florida State University)

William R. Dolbier (University of Florida)

R. Bruce King (University of Georgia)

George R. Newkome (University of South Florida)

Charles E. Carraher (Florida Atlantic University)

Norman L. Allinger (University of Georgia)

Albert Padwa (Emory University)

Alan R. Katritzky (University of Florida)

Luis Echegoyen (University of Miami)

N. Yngve Öhrn (University of Florida)

Jack Saltiel (Florida State University)

Mostafa El-Sayed (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Rodney J. Bartlett (University of Florida)

Thomas J. Vickers (Florida State University)

Alan G. Marshall (Florida State University)

Kenneth B. Wagener (University of Florida)

John G. Dorsey (Florida State University)

Charles R. (Martin University of Florida)

Roger M. Leblanc (University of Miami)

Naresh Dalal (Florida State University)

George Christou (University of Florida)

Kirk S. Schanze (University of Florida)

Timothy Cross (Florida State University)

Frank Millero (University of Miami)

Weihong Tan (University of Florida)

Joe Schlenoff (Florida State University)

Weitao Yang (Duke University)

Lisa McElwee-White (University of Florida)