John Hartwig will receive the ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Atlanta, Georgia in March of 2006. This award is sponsored by the Dow Chemical Company Foundation. He is receiving this award for his contributions to the application of organometallic chemistry and mechanistic principles to the development of new synthetic organic chemistry methods. Professor Hartwig joins a very select group of faculty who have won this major ACS awards. He will receive $5000, a certificate and travel expenses to the meeting.

Professor Hartwig received his A.B. degree from Princeton, in 1986 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990. Subsequently, he was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and joined the Yale University faculty in 1992. He has received numerous other awards in his career, most recently, the Thieme-IUPAC Prize in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, and the Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award. Dr. Hartwig will join the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois in July.