Editing Carl Djerassi (section)

==Awards and honors==
[[File:miramontes patent.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Patent of the first orally highly active progestin, which led to the development of the oral contraceptive, elected to the USA Inventors Hall of Fame.]]
Djerassi won numerous awards during his career including:
*[[Ernest Guenther Award]] in Chemistry and Natural Products by the [[American Chemical Society]] (1960)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/awards/national/bytopic/ernest-guenther-award-in-the-chemistry-of-natural-products.html|title=Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products|website=American Chemical Society|language=en|access-date=April 3, 2020}}</ref>
* [[Scheele Award]] (1972)
* [[National Medal of Science]] (President of the United States of America, 1973) for his work on the contraceptive pill<ref>[https://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recip_details.cfm?recip_id=106 National Science Foundation – The President's National Medal of Science]</ref> (The award was somewhat ironic in that his name at the time was on the infamous "[[Master list of Nixon political opponents|Nixon's enemies list]]", which was compiled by [[Charles Colson]] and [[Richard Nixon]]. He learned this from an article in the ''[[San Francisco Examiner]]'', several months later.)
* [[Perkin Medal]] (1975)<ref name="SCI Perkin Medal">{{cite web|title=SCI Perkin Medal|url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/sci-perkin-medal|website=[[Science History Institute]]|access-date=March 24, 2018|date=May 31, 2016}}</ref>
* Inducted into the [[National Inventors Hall of Fame]] (1978)<ref>[http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/44.html National Inventors Hall of Fame] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100709223237/http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/44.html |date=July 9, 2010 }}</ref>
* First recipient of the [[Wolf Prize]], 1978<ref name=AICAll/>
* [[National Medal of Technology]] (President of the United States of America, 1991) for "his broad technological contributions to solving environmental problems; and for his initiatives in developing novel, practical approaches to insect control products that are biodegradable and harmless"
*Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]] (1980)<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#science-exploration}}</ref>
* [[Priestley Medal]] ([[American Chemical Society]], 1992)<ref name=CHFOralHistory/>
* [[Willard Gibbs Award]] (Chicago Section of the [[American Chemical Society]]., 1997)
* [[Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class]] (1999)<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/VHG/XXIV/AB/AB_10542/imfname_251156.pdf | title = Reply to a parliamentary question | language = de | page=1219 | access-date = November 28, 2012 }}</ref>
*[[Othmer Gold Medal]] (2000)<ref name=2000CAEN>{{cite journal|last1=Reisch|first1=Marc|title=Carl Djerassi Receives Othmer Gold Medal|journal=Chemical & Engineering News|date=June 5, 2000|volume=78|issue=23|pages=79|doi=10.1021/cen-v078n023.p079|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name=CHFAll>{{cite web|title=Othmer Gold Medal |url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/othmer-gold-medal |publisher=[[Science History Institute]] |access-date=June 12, 2014 }}</ref>
* Prize of the [[German Chemical Society]] for Writers (2001)
* Grand Gold Medal for services to the province of Lower Austria (2002)
* Gold Medal of the capital Vienna (2002)
* [[Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]] (2003)
* Erasmus Medal of the [[Academia Europaea]] (2003)
* [[American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal]] (2004)<ref name=AICAll>{{cite web|title=American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal |url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/american-institute-of-chemists-gold-medal|publisher=[[Science History Institute]]|access-date=February 21, 2018|date=May 31, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Lichtenberg Medal]] of the [[Göttingen Academy of Sciences]] (2005)
* Premio letterario Serono in Rome (2005)
* An Austrian postage stamp with Djerassi's portrait, issued to mark his 80th birthday (2005)<ref name=Weintraub /> The Austrian government also sent him a new Austrian passport.
* [[Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria]] (2008)<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/VHG/XXIV/AB/AB_10542/imfname_251156.pdf | title = Reply to a parliamentary question | language = de | page=1833 | access-date = November 28, 2012 }}</ref>
* Honorary doctorate from the faculty of humanities of the [[Technical University of Dortmund]] for his literary work (as 21 honorary doctorate) (2009)
* Alecrin Prize (2009, [[Vigo]], Spain){{citation needed|date=February 2015}}
*[[Djerassi Glacier]] on [[Brabant Island]] in [[Antarctica]] is named after Carl Djerassi (2009).<ref>[http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=136910 Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica:] Djerassi Glacier.</ref>
* Foreign Member of the [[Royal Society]] (2010)<ref>{{cite web| url=http://royalsociety.org/about-us/fellowship/foreign-members/| title = Foreign Members|publisher = Royal Society|access-date = March 20, 2012}}</ref>
* Edinburgh Medal (2011)<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-13013712 "Pill inventor Carl Djerassi to receive Edinburgh Medal"], BBC News, April 8, 2011.</ref>
* Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences, [[Heidelberg University]] (2011)
* Honorary doctorate from the [[Porto University]] (2011)
* Honorary doctorate from the [[University of Vienna]] (2012)
* Honorary doctorate from the [[Medical University of Vienna]] (2012)
* Honorary doctorate from the [[University of Applied Arts, Vienna]] (2013)
* Honorary doctorate from the Sigmund Freud University, Vienna (2013){{citation needed|date=February 2015}}
* Honorary doctorate from the [[American University in Bulgaria]] (2013)<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.aubg.edu/about-us/honorary-degree-recipients/ | title=Honorary Degree Recipients|publisher=American University in Bulgaria|access-date=November 2, 2024}}</ref>
* Honorary doctorate from the [[University of Innsbruck]] (2014)<ref>[http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2014/carl-djerassi-erhielt-ehrendoktorat-der-uni-innsbruck.html.de "Carl Djerassi erhielt Ehrendoktorat"], University of Innsbruck, June 6, 2014.</ref>
* Djerassiplatz, the site of the University of Vienna Biology Building is named after him.

An award that eluded Djerassi was the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]], where he is considered one of the more notable "snubs" by the Nobel Committee.<ref>Inglis-Arkell, Esther, [https://gizmodo.com/what-are-the-unwritten-rules-of-winning-a-nobel-prize-1735682317 "What Are the Unwritten Rules of Winning a Nobel Prize?"], ''Gizmodo'', October 9, 2015 (published & accessed).</ref>