The ACS Division of Chemical Information (CINF) established the Herman Skolnik Award to recognize outstanding contributions to and achievements in the theory and practice of chemical information science. The Award is named in honor of the first recipient, Herman Skolnik.
In 2020, Wendy Warr won the Herman Skolnik Award for her contributions to the fields of chemical information and a number of related fields that impinge on chemical information including chemical structure representation, substructure searching, retrosynthesis and reaction prediction.
She is active in ACS CINF and serves on several international scientific committees, including that of the German Chemical Society’s GCC cheminformatics meeting. She has been Chair of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry’s Committee on Printed and Electronic Publications and has been on the Publications Committee of the Society of Chemical Industry. She served on the Steering Committee of the MDL Software Users Group in the USA and Europe for more than ten years and was a prime mover in the first three of the three-yearly Noordwijkerhout International Conferences on Chemical Structures. Wendy was also an Associate Editor for the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling for 25 years (1989-2013). Since January 1992, Wendy Warr & Associates has been supplying business and competitive intelligence services to a broad spectrum of clients in the United States, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and Asia.
Due to the Covid pandemic, the Award Symposium was delayed until Spring 2022. Please see the Symposium Report that was published in CINF’s Chemical Information Bulletin, Volume 74 (4), 2022.
Wendy has been involved with the CSA since its inception and is a Trustee of the CSA Trust. Congratulations, Wendy!
Chemical Structure Association Trust 