Awards & Winners

Donald J. Cram

Date of Birth 22-April-1919
Place of Birth Chester
(United States of America, Vermont, Windsor County, Windsor-1-1 Vermont Representative District, 2002–12)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Donald James Cram
Donald James Cram was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity." They were the founders of the field of host-guest chemistry.

Awards by Donald J. Cram

Check all the awards nominated and won by Donald J. Cram.

1993


National Medal of Science for Chemistry
(For his pioneering research on the chemical foundations of molecular recognition; the understanding of the molecular basis of biological systems; his shaping of scientific thought and development, and guidance to generations of students.)

1992


NAS Award in Chemical Sciences
(For elucidation of fundamental questions of stereochemistry and reaction mechanism and for pioneering work on the synthesis and properties of designed inclusion (host-guest) complexes.)

1987


Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity)