Premier Award Winners | International Precious Metals Institute

All Premier Award Recipients

Year	Junichiro Tanaka Award	IPMI Henry J. Albert Award	IPMI Carol Tyler Award
2025	Ron Davies Ames Goldsmith	Prof. Michael Wong Rice University	Ivana Ciabatti Italpreziosi
2024	Prof. Bruce Lipshutz University of California, Santa Barbara	Prof. Jin Quan Yu Scripps Research Institute	Marion Cameron-Gray Sipi Metals Corp
2023	Dr Gaetano Cavalieri CIBJO	Prof. E. Charles Sykes Tufts University	Prof. Franziska Schoenebeck RWTH Aachen University
2022	Prof. Chad A. Mirkin Northwestern University	Prof. Ben Feringa University of Groningen, The Netherlands	Ruth Crowell London Bullion Market Association
2020	Prof. Gary Molander University of Pennsylvania	Prof. Michael P. Doyle University of Texas at San Antonio	Margaret Gannon-Jones Gannon and Scott
2019	Dr Robert Ianniello	Prof. Cynthia Friend Harvard	Prof. Melanie S. Sanford University of Michigan
2018	Dr Stewart Murray	Prof. Robert H. Grubbs CalTech	Prof. Cathleen Crudden Queens University
2017	Dr Roland Gerner Heraeus	Prof. David W.C. MacMillan Princeton	Prof. Yu Huang UCLA
2016	Prof. Stephen L. Buchwald MIT	Prof. Ei-ichi Negishi Purdue University	Prof. Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos Tufts
2015	Dr Corby Anderson Colorado School of Mines	Dr Thomas Colacot Johnson Matthey	Prof. Karen Goldberg University of Washington
2014	Prof. Barry Trost Stanford	Prof. James Dabrowiak Syracuse	Prof. Teri Odom Northwestern
2013	John Bullock	Prof. Masahiro Watanabe Yamanashi University	Prof. Catherine Murphy University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2012	Barry Davison	Prof. Fabio Ribeiro Purdue	Prof. Donna Chen University of South Carolina
2011	Dr Martin Durney Johnson Matthey	Prof. Graham Hutchings Cardiff University	Prof. Jennifer Edwards Cardiff University
2010	Prof. James Dumesic University of Wisconsin	John Steger BASF
2009	John Burdsall Heraeus	Prof. Hans Conroy zur Loye University of South Carolina
2008	Steven Izatt IBC Advanced Technologies	Dr Maria Flytzani Stephanopoulos Tufts
2007	Prof. Sir John Meurig Thomas University of Cambridge	Dr David Lupton Heraeus
2006	Dr Luigi Marzilli Louisiana State University	Dr Robert McCabe Ford
2005	Dr Jean-Marie Basset Laboratoire de Chimie Organique de Surface	Prof. Richard Adams University of South Carolina
2004	John Mooney Engelhard	Prof Bernd Fischer Uni. of Applied Sciences, Jena, Germany
2003	Christopher Clark Johnson Matthey	Dr Robert Augustine Seton Hall University
2002	Andrew Sabin Sabin Metal Corp	Dr Masatake Haruta Research Institute for Green Technology, Japan
2001	Sebastian Musco Gemini Industries	Dr Robert Farrauto Engelhard
2000	Dr Juergen Heraeus Heraeus	Barry Cooper Johnson Matthey
1999	Prof. Henry Kagan University of Paris-Sud	Dr Mahmoud El Guindy Gemini Industries
1998	David Lundy	Prof. Gerard Smith Southern Illinois University
1997	Prof. Atsuma Ozaki	Prof. RJ Madix Stanford
1996	Francis Curren Pease & Curren	Dwarika Agarwal Leach and Garner
1995	John Fraser	Prof. Jack Halpern University of Chicago
1994	Dr Michel Boudart Stanford	Prof. Lanny Schmidt University of Minnesota
1993	Patrick Retief Rustenberg Platinum	Vladimir Haensel University of Massachusetts
1992	Peter Metz Degussa	Gary Acres Johnson Matthey
1991	Dennis Suskind J Aron / Goldman Sachs	Dr Henri D. Beer
1990	Dr Sheldon Weinig Materials Research Corp	Paul Rylander Engelhard
1989	Joseph Stevenson Johnson Matthey	Morton Antler
1988	Alfred Weisberg Technic	Silva Kallman Ledoux
1987	Dr Gunther Cohn Engelhard
1986	Dr Henry Taube Stanford
1985	Dr Evgeny Savitsky Academy of Science of the USSR
1984	Jun-ichiro Tanaka Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo
1983	Dr Carl Keith Engelhard
1982	Dr John Nielsen Polytechnic Institute of NY
1981	Dr Donald McLaughlin Homestake Mining
1980	Dr Leslie Hunt Johnson Matthey
1979	Dr John S Forbes Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths
1978	Prof. Ernst Raub Forschunginstitu fur Edemetalle und Metallchemie