Nicholas A. Peppas is the recipient of the 2006 William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Nicholas A. Peppas is the recipient of the 2006 William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. This is the highest honor bestowed by AIChE upon a chemical engineer. Nicholas' citation reads "for seminal scientific and educational contributions to bionanotechnology, biomolecular sciences and engineering, and nanoscale analysis of polymers and biomaterials over the past 30 years, and for providing profound insight into numerous engineering processes and applications that led to analysis, design and development of new biomaterials, drug delivery systems and medical devices".