Rubber Division celebrates 2019 Science & Technology Award winners

The Charles Goodyear Medal is the highest honor given out by the ACS Rubber Division.

Roderic Quirk (center), 2019 Charles Goodyear medalist, discusses his career with Bruce Meyer (left), Rubber & Plastics News editor, and Rubber Division Historian Shelby Washko.

Roderic Quirk (center), 2019 Charles Goodyear medalist, shares a laugh with Bruce Meyer (left), Rubber & Plastics News editor, and Rubber Division Historian Shelby Washko during a interview.

Roderic Quirk (center), recipient of the Rubber Division's Charles Goodyear Medal, is surrounded by 20 of his former students. Some traveled from as far away as South Korea and South Africa to celebrate the occasion with him.

Charles Herd, director of rubber carbon black technology at Birla Carbon, was honored with the Fernley H. Banbury Award.

Ulrich Giese, professor and managing director and head of the Elastomer and Analytical Chemistry, also at the German Institute of Rubber Technology, was honored with the George Stafford Whitby Award for Distinguished Teaching & Research

Pamela Martin (center) of the Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre, received the Sparks-Thomas Award from Chris Napier (left) of ExxonMobil Chemical, and Leonard Thomas, a consultant and member of the Rubber Division’s Steering Committee.

Manfred Klueppel receives the Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award.

Timothy Long, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and director of the Macromolecules Innovation Institute at Virginia Tech, received the Chemistry of Thermoplastic Elastomers Award.