Charles Lathrop Parsons Award

{{Short description|American Chemical Society award}}

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| awarded_for = Public service

| presenter = American Chemical Society

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| date = {{Start date|1952}}

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| reward = $5,000

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The Charles Lathrop Parsons Award is usually a biennial award that recognizes outstanding public service by a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Recipients are chosen by the American Chemical Society Board of Directors, from a list of no more than five recipients presented by the ACS Committee on Grants and Awards.{{cite book|title=Awards Administered by American Chemical Society|date=2002|publisher=American Chemical Society|page=9}} They have the discretion to offer the award in successive years if they so wish.{{Cite web|title = Charles Lathrop Parsons Award|url = http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/awards/national/bytopic/charles-lathrop-parsons-award.html|website = American Chemical Society|access-date = 2016-01-14}} It was established in 1952, and is named in honor of its first recipient, Charles Lathrop Parsons.{{cite book|last1=Skolnik|first1=Herman|last2=Reese|first2=Kenneth M.|title=A Century of chemistry: the role of chemists and the American Chemical Society|date=May 1, 1976|publisher=The Society|page=35}}{{cite journal|last1=Murphy|first1=Walter J.|title=Editorial: The Charles Lathrop Parsons Award|journal=The Chemist|date=1952|volume=29|page=581}} The first woman to receive the award was Mary L. Good in 1991.{{cite journal|title=Mary Good Wins ACS's Parsons Award for Public Service|journal=Chemical & Engineering News|date=June 11, 1990|volume=68|issue=24|pages=16–18|doi=10.1021/cen-v068n024.p016|doi-access=free}}