Basolo Award Information  


Fred Basolo The Fred Basolo Medal is given for outstanding research in Inorganic Chemistry. It was established by the former students of Fred Basolo in appreciation of his contributions to inorganic chemistry at Northwestern University. Basolo arrived at Northwestern in 1946 and was able to help make the Department of Chemistry one of the very best in inorganic chemistry in the U.S., a position it still maintains today.

Basolo is internationally recognized for his original contributions to the syntheses and reaction mechanisms of transition-metal Werner complexes. He has also done innovative work in the developing fields of organometallic and bioinorganic chemistry.

Many of his former students occupy prominent academic and industrial positions. He has influenced students worldwide to study inorganic chemistry, and received the 1992 ACS Pimental Award in Chemical Education.

Among his numerous awards are the 1996 Chicago Section Willard Gibbs Medal and the ACS 2001 Priestly Medal.

Basolo Medalists:

Ralph G. Pearson 1991
Henry Taube 1992
Jack Halpern 1993
Harry Gray 1994
Lawrence Dahl 1995
Richard H. Holm 1996
Kenneth N. Raymond 1997
Malcolm Green 1998
Thomas J. Meyer 1999
James P. Collman 2000
M. Frederick Hawthorne 2001
Stephen J. Lippard 2002
Daryle H. Busch  2003
Malcolm H. Chisholm 2004
John E. Bercaw 2005
Ivano Bertini 2006
Richard R. Schrock 2007
Robert H. Grubbs 2008





Updated 9/29/08