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CCB Prize Lectures

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CCB awards multiple prizes to the top chemists working today in honor of past community members who advanced chemistry research, innovation, and instruction. Prize winners deliver a lecture about their work to the department. For more information about...

David Liu receives Harvey Prize

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David Liu, the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator will be a co-recipient of the Harvey Prize in Science and Technology in Chemistry for his translation of scientific discoveries into...

Alessandra Canta wins Captain Jonathan Fay Prize

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Alessandra Canta, a joint Chemistry and Astrophysics concentrator with a secondary field in MCB, has won the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize. Gregg Tucci, Director of Undergraduate Studies, recently shared this incredible news with the Department citing that...

Kang-Kuen Ni awarded the I. I. Rabi Prize

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The Prize serves to recognize and encourage outstanding research in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics In her brief time as an Assistant Professor in our Department, Kang-Kuen Ni has earned well-deserved, wide-spread recognition for her work on...

George M. Whitesides wins 2022 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience

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Professor George M. Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, has been selected as one the recipients of the 2022 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience, which honors the "pioneers that created molecular scale coatings for surfaces which enable...

Xiaowei Zhuang Wins 2023 Dreyfus Prize

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Today, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation announced that Xiaowei Zhuang is the recipient of the organization’s highest honor and only international prize, the 2021 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences. Zhuang receives this top honor for her...

Two Hoopes Prize Winners in CCB

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Two graduating seniors affiliated with CCB have won Harvard Hoopes Prizes for their research projects. Hoopes Prize recipients are nominated by their research directors. CCB Professor Jack Szostak and Professor Andrew Knoll (OEB) directed the work of...

Xiaowei Zhuang wins 2026 Ernest Solvay Prize

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Xiaowei Zhuang, David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, has been awarded the 2026 Ernest Solvay Prize by Syensqo “for pioneering the development of genome-scale imaging, which has...

Xiaowei Zhuang delivers 2023 Dreyfus Prize Lecture

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On Friday, September 21, Xiaowei Zhuang recieved the 2023 Dreyfus Prize and delievered her prize lecture in Pfizer Lecture Hall entitled "Vizualizing biology at the nanoscale & genome-scale: From molecular structures in neurons to cell atlas of the brain...

Kang-Kuen Ni wins 2023 New Horizons in Physics Prize

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Kang-Kuen Ni, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has received the 2023 New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. The New Horizons prizes are awarded to early-career scientists who have made significant contribution to...

Max Tishler Prize Lecture

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Professor John Harwig, University of California, Berkeley. Catalytic, Regioselective Functionalization of C-H Bonds. Max Tishler Prize Lecture.

Sunney Xie Wins Albany Medical Prize

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The Albany Medical Center has announced that Professor Sunney Xie, along with Karl Deisseroth (Harvard AB ’92) of Stanford University, will share the $500,000 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research for 2015. Both are recognized...