2022 Seaborg Award: Carolyn J. Anderson

Current position: Simón-Ellebracht Professor in Medicinal Chemistry and professor of radiology, University of Missouri

Education: BS, chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Superior; PhD, inorganic chemistry, Florida State University

Anderson on her scientific hero: “Marie Curie is my scientific hero. Science was her life both professionally and personally. She married her scientific partner (Pierre Curie) and inspired her daughter (Irène) to be a Nobel Prize awardee. Madame Curie withstood great tragedy, a scandalous relationship with a married colleague followed by being ostracized, and yet with her head held high, she accepted her second Nobel Prize in person. She was a brilliant scientist, yet wholly human.”

What Anderson’s colleagues say: “Carolyn is one of the world’s leading radiochemists, renowned nationally and internationally for her work in the development of metal-based radiopharmaceuticals. Her work has been paradigm shifting and has changed the course of the radiochemistry discipline.”—Jason S. Lewis, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center