2022: Greg Landrum – development of RDKit and his fostering of the community around it, a transformative software resource for cheminformatics and machine learning.
2018: Rudy Potenzone – 40+ year career as a provider of in-house informatics services and a creator and implementer of innovative informatics software solutions including SciFinder.
2014: “InChI Team,” Steve Heller, Alan McNaught, Igor Pletnev, Steve Stein, Dmitrii Tchekhovskoi – conception and development of the IUPAC International Chemical Identifier InChI.
2011: Engelbert (Bert) Zass – lifetime career devoted to education in chemical information with an emphasis on database searching and the role of the intermediary.
2008: Alexander (Sandy) Lawson – major contributions to chemical information handling and structure representation, particularly in the development of the Beilstein database and software.
2005: Johan Gasteiger – outstanding accomplishments in the fields of computational chemistry and structure elucidation.
2002: Peter Willett – pioneering work in maintaining and nurturing an academic centre of excellence in cheminformatics teaching and research with an emphasis on computational techniques for the processing of chemical and biological information.
Chemical Structure Association Trust 