New York, NY (PRWEB) January 8, 2005 The award was established in 1958 and the first Palladium Medal was presented to Ernest-John Solvay of Belgium. Twenty-one subsequent awards have been made to American, French, British, and German recipients. The recipients were: Werner C. Brown (Hercules), Vincent A. Calarco (Crompton), Harry Corless (ICI), Earnest W. Deavenport, Jr. (Eastman Chemical Company), Jean-Rene Fourtou (Rhône-Poulenc), Thomas G. Gibian (Henkel), Thomas L. Gossage (Hercules), J. Peter Grace (W.R. Grace), Edward R. Kane (DuPont), William W. Keeler (Phillips Petroleum), Robert D. Kennedy (Union Carbide), Gerald D. Laubach (Pfizer), Paul F. Oreffice (Dow Chemical), Frank Popoff (Dow Chemical), Monroe J. Rathbone (Standard Oil), William S.…