Presidential Young Investigator Award [SEP] conferred by
Presidential Young Investigator Award
The Presidential Young Investigator Award (PYI) was awarded by the National Science Foundation of the United States Federal Government. The program operated from 1984 to 1991, and was replaced by the NSF Young Investigator (NYI) Awards and Presidential Faculty Fellows Program (PFF).
The award gave minimum of $25,000 a year for five years from NSF, with the possibility of up to $100,000 annually if the PYI obtained matching funds from industry. The program was criticized in 1990 as not being the
reactions. Yoon demonstrated that the chain processes dominated the product formation of the three photoredox transformations. 
Awards/Honors.
- 2015 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award, granted by the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation
- 2013 William H. Kiekhofer Distinguished Teaching Award, presented by University of Wisconsin-Madison
- 2010 Eli Lilly Grantee Award, conferred by Eli Lilly & Company
- 2010 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, granted by the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
- 2009 Amgen Young Investigator Award, sponsored by Amgen
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