 PERLMAN WINS GRADY-STACK AWARD
David Perlman has added the James J. Grady-James H. Stack
Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public to his long list
of honors. The award was announced on October 13 at a luncheon
hosted by the American Chemical Society Office of Communications.
The Grady-Stack award is the highest honor the ACS can bestow
on an individual for outstanding public communication about chemistry
and chemical progress. It was established in 1955 "to recognize,
encourage and stimulate outstanding reporting directly to the
public, thus increasing knowledge and understanding of chemistry,
chemical engineering, and related fields." Perlman will
receive $3,000, a gold medal, and a bronze replica of the medal
during the annual ACS Awards Banquet at the Society's Spring
2001 meeting.
The award is named after two former managing editors of the
ACS News Service, James T. Grady and James H. Stack. Previous
NASW winners of the award include Alton Blakeslee, Isaac Asimov,
Walter Sullivan, Victor Cohn, Jon Franklin, Christine Russell,
Arthur Fisher, Don Herbert, and Joseph Palca.
Perlman has been a reporter and editor at the San Francisco
Chronicle for nearly half a century, and he has covered science
and technology for more than 35 years. As a journalist and teacher,
Perlman has mentored hundreds of science reporters over the course
of his career. Both the American Geophysical Union and the San
Francisco Medical Society have named their annual journalism
awards after him, and, in fact, he was the first recipient of
the San Francisco Medical Society's David Perlman Award for Excellence
in Medical Reporting.
A former president of both NASW and CASW, Perlman is one of
only two recipients of NASW's award honoring a distinguished
career in science writing.
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