The Heroes of Chemistry is an award given annually by the American Chemical Society.
[1] It highlights teams responsible for creation of innovative and impactful products based on chemistry and chemical engineering and is intended to show how human welfare is improved by industrial chemical scientists and their companies.
Winners include pharmaceuticals,[2] agricultural chemicals,[3] zeolites,[4] chemical processes,[5] and polymers.
In early years, many individuals were named based on a body of work.
More recently, the award has been granted to development teams responsible for commercialized products.