Professor Sara Skrabalak To Receive Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award
April 13, 2015
Professor Sara Skrabalak has been selected to receive a Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award. The North Jersey Section of the American Chemical Society presents the Award biannually to commemorate the technical and industrial achievements of Leo Hendrik Baekeland and to encourage younger chemists to emulate his example. It consists of a gold medal and a $5,000 honorarium.
The Award is given in recognition of accomplishments in pure or applied chemistry to an American chemist as characterized by the initiative, creativeness, leadership, and perseverance of the individual (indicated by published or unpublished evidence) and who was under the age of 40 as of January 1, 2015.