EDELSTEIN AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY

The award recognized an outstanding career of contributions to the history of chemistry.
The award consisted of a monetary award and a plaque.
The award was international in scope, and was presented annually at the fall national ACS meeting.
Following Sidney M. Edelstein's death in 1994, the Dexter Chemical Corporation continued to sponsor the Dexter Award until 1999. Afterwards the Edelstein family decided to continue the award and provided the major funding was what was then renamed "The Sidney M. Edelstein Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry". The newly named award was established in 2002 and was co-funded by the Chemical Heritage Foundation (now the Science History Institute) with further support from HIST's budget. This award ceased in 2009 when funding sources terminated. In 2013, due to a generous contribution from an anonymous donor, the HIST Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry was initiated and continues to this day.

Year	Awardee	Affiliation at Time of Award	Award Address	Reference
2009	Trevor H. Levere	Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto	Sons of Genius: Chemical Manipulation and Its Shifting Norms from Joseph Black to Michael Faraday	Bull. Hist. Chem. 35 (2010), 1-6.
2008	Sir John Shipley Rowlinson	Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford	The Border Between Physics and Chemistry	Bull. Hist. Chem. 34 (2009), 1-10.
2007	Anthony S. Travis	Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel	What A Wonderful Empire is the Organic Chemistry	Bull. Hist. Chem. 33 (2008), 1-12.
2006	Peter J. T. Morris	Science Museum, London	Writing the History of Modern Chemistry	Bull. Hist. Chem. 32 (2007), 2-9. Photograph - Jeffrey I. Seeman, Peter Morris and Ruth Barish, daughter of Sidney Edelstein
2005	William B. Jensen	University of Cincinnati	Textbooks and the Future of the History of Chemistry as an Academic Discipline	Bull. Hist. Chem. 31 (2006), 1-8.
2004	Joseph B. Lambert	Northwestern University	The Deep History of Chemistry	Bull. Hist. Chem. 30 (2005), 1-9.
2003	David Knight	Durham University, Durham, England	Making Chemistry Popular	Bull. Hist. Chem. 29 (2004), 1-8. Photograph - David Knight with Dave Abrahams.
2002	John Parascandola	National Library of Medicine	To Bond or Not to Bond:Chemical versus Physical Theories of Drug Action	Bull. Hist. Chem. 28 (2003), 1-8.