E.J. Corey, Harvard affiliates honored with AAP book award

The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) recently selected “Molecules and Medicine” — co-authored by Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry Emeritus E.J. Corey and postdoctoral fellows in chemistry and chemical biology Barbara Czako and Laszlo Kurti — as the recipient of its 2007 award for best book published in the field of the physical sciences and mathematics.

A 14-member judging panel selected the book. The awards were recently presented during the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division’s annual conference in Washington, D.C.