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Spiers Memorial Award Winners
- 2020 - Professor Leigh Canham
- 2020 - Professor Klaus Mullen
- 2019 - Professor Matthias Beller
- 2019 - Porfessor Naomi J. Halas
- 2018 - Professor David C. Clary
- 2018 - Professor Ilme Schlichting
- 2017 - Professor Richard Van Duyne
- 2017 - Professor Omar Yaghi
- 2016 - Professor Urs Baltensperger
- 2016 - Professor Avelino Corma
- 2015 - Professor Paul Alivisatos
- 2014 - Professor Pulickel Ajayan
- 2014 - Professor Fred Wudl
- 2013 - Professor Joseph Wang
- 2012 - Dr Daan Frenkel
- 2011 - Professor Masatake Haruta
- 2010 - Professor Roger Tsien
- 2009 - Professor Rudy Marcus
- 2008 - Professor Pavel Jungwirth
- 2007 - Professor Lia Addadi
- 2006 - Professor Roy McWeeny
- 2005 - Professor James R. Heath
- 2004 - Professor Geraldine L. Richmond
- 2003 - Professor Bruce E. Bursten
- 2002 - Professor Gerhard Ertl
- 2001 - Professor R. E. Miller
- 2000 - Professor Adam Heller
- 1999 - John P. Simons
- 1998 - William H. Miller
- 1997 - Joshua Jortner
- 1995 - C. Bradley Moore
- 1993 - J. Harris
- 1992 - A. Dalgarno
- 1987 - John C. Polanyi
- 1985 - James A. Morrison
- 1983 - Charles S. Parmenter
- 1981 - K. M. Evenson
- 1978 - Peter A. Egelstaff
- 1977 - Dudley R. Herschbach
- 1975 - R. P. Bell
- 1972 - G. G. Hall
- 1970 - Paul J. Flory
- 1967 - G. S. Rushbrooke
- 1965 - H. C. Longuet-Higgins
- 1963 - G. Herzberg
- 1961 - H. Bloom
- 1959 - Th. Forster
- 1957 - Herbert S. Harned
- 1956 - Torsten Teorell
- 1953 - Joel H. Hildebrand
- 1952 - John T. Edsall
- 1950 - Hugh S. Taylor
- 1938 - William Thomas Astbury
- 1934 - Sir William H. Bragg
- 1931 - Robert Ludwig Mond
- 1929 - Sir Oliver Lodge
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