| The Sense of Smell Institute proudly recognizes excellence in the field of olfactory research and education. In 1984, the Institute introduced its Sense of Smell Award to acknowledge research scientists who have made extraordinary contributions to the science of olfaction, with either a single outstanding scientific study or a body of work over the course of their careers that has contributed to our understanding of the mysterious fifth sense.
In 2001, the award was renamed the Henry G. Walter Jr. Sense of Smell Award in tribute to the late former chairman and chief executive of International Flavors and Fragrances. Hank Walters was a visionary who brought the realm of sensory and psychological research to the fragrance industry. Hank Walter was also instrumental in the creation of the Sense of Smell Institute in the early 80s.
SENSE OF SMELL AWARD HONOREES
 2002
Dr. Charles J. Wysocki
Member Monell Chemical Senses Center
Adjunct Professor of Anatomy,
School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
The award is being presented in recognition of his lifetime achievements in olfactory research including his investigation of the vomeronasal organ, the chemical senses and communication in humans and other animals. His current research interests also include variation in olfaction and chemical irritation, quality coding of chemical irritation, and reduction of malodors in agricultural settings.
Dr. Wysocki has published over 100 scientific articles or review, is co-editor of a volume on Genetics and Olfaction, and is co-author of a patent on methods to reduce malodors. In 1988 he was honored with two prizes, The Distinguished Graduate Award from the Psychobiology/Neuroscience Program, FSU and the Kenji Nakanish Research Award in Olfaction presented by AChemS.
2001
Dr. Martha McClintock
Director, Institute for Mind and Biology
David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor in Psychology, University of Chicago
Dr. McClintock was recognized for her pioneering research on the human behavioral basis for pheromone detection and discrimination. Dr. McClintock began her doctoral training at Harvard, where she published her seminal article on menstrual synchrony and putative pheromones. She continued her work on neuroendocrine mechanisms of pheromones and completed her doctoral degree in physiological psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. McClintock joined the University of Chicago in 1976 and has remained there as a member of the Committee on Neurobiology, Evolutionary Biology and Human Development and as a professor in the college.
 2000
Dr. Richard L. Doty
Director, University of Pennsylvania Smell and Taste Center
Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery
Dr. Doty is noted for his investigations of age and gender differences in the sense of smell, and how olfactory function is altered in numerous diseases and disorders including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and schizophrenia.
Dr. Doty is an editorial consultant to over 50 scientific journals and to dozens of major corporations and government advisory committees. He is author or co-author of nearly 300 professional publications and editor of the Handbook of Olfaction and Gustation, considered to be the bible of the chemical senses field. Dr. Doty has an undergraduate degree from Colorado State University. He received a Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1971.
 1999
Dr. Steve Van Toller
Director, Warwick Olfaction Research Group
Reader in Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, England
Dr. Van Toller has carried out research on behavior related to the sense of smell since 1974. Beginning with its formation in 1976, he has been Director of the world-renowned Warwick Olfaction Research Group which investigates the psychological aspects of odor perception. He is especially noted for innovative work examining how brain electrical activity responds to smells. Another focus of his research has been to help anosmic people who, for various reasons, have lost the ability to detect smells.
Dr. Van Toller is the author of numerous books and articles on the senses of smell and taste. For six years he was an Executive Editor of Chemical Senses, a scientific journal published by Oxford University Press
 1998
Dr. Gary K. Beauchamp
Director and President, Monell Chemical Senses Center
Dr. Beauchamp?s eclectic research interests include the genetics of chemosensation, aging, development of taste and smell, taste interactions, and the role of smell and taste in food and beverage choice and acceptance. He is the author or co-author of over 200 original research papers, book chapters, and review articles.
Dr. Beauchamp joined the Monell Chemical Senses Center as a postdoctoral fellow in 1971 and became Director in 1990. He holds an undergraduate degree in biology from Carleton College and a Ph.D. in biopsychology from the University of Chicago.
 1997
Dr. Joseph C. Stevens
Fellow, John B. Pierce Laboratory
Senior Research Scientist & Lecturer in Psychology, Yale University
Dr. Stevens? career has been devoted to the study of the human senses. He was a graduate student and then a junior faculty member at Harvard University under the mentorship of sensory scientists S.S. Stevens and Georg von Békésy. In 1966 he founded the Psychophysics Group of the John B. Pierce Laboratory, an affiliate research institute of Yale University dedicated to research in health and the environment.
A goal of his research was to better understand variability and reliability in sensory detection thresholds, and their role in evaluation of complex mixtures characteristic of everyday stimulation of taste and smell.
 1996
Dr. Gisela Epple
Member, Monell Chemical Senses Center
Dr. Epple spent much of her career studying the role of body scents in the control of sexual and social behavior in primates, and in the regulation of female fertility. She is the author of more than 60 scientific publications in these areas. Her more recent interests include the influence of fragrances on human behavior, and on the role of carnivore scents in the predation avoidance of small mammals.
Dr. Epple was educated in Germany at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, where she received her Ph.D. in natural sciences in 1966. Soon afterwards she immigrated to the United States for a postdoctoral fellowship at the Delta Primate Research Center. She joined the faculty of the Monell Center in 1969.
 1995
Dr. Frank L. Margolis
Full Member and Head of the Laboratory of Chemosensory Neurobiology, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology
Dr. Margolis’ work has been on the vertebrate olfactory system, that portion of the nervous system responsible for the sense of smell. For two decades his laboratory has been dedicated to understanding the mechanisms that regulate the biological properties of this neuronal system. Dr. Margolis has taken a multidisciplinary approach emphasizing cellular and molecular biological techniques. He is noted for identifying and cloning the olfactory marker protein, a protein that is specific to the odor-detecting cells in the nose and thus an invaluable tool for experimentally manipulating these cells and learning about their function.
Dr. Margolis holds an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Antioch College, and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Columbia University. Following postdoctoral training at Columbia and at the University of Paris, he took a faculty position at UCLA. In 1969 he joined the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology in Nutley, New Jersey.
 1994
National Institutes of Health
Accepted by Dr. James B. Snow, Jr.
Director, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
The National Institutes of Health has supported olfactory research for 30 years. In particular, the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders, conducts and supports research on hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech and language. Its research covers normal mechanisms as well as diseases and disorders. Investigations are carried out at the NIDCD?s own laboratories and through a program of research grants to public and private institutions.
Since 1989, NIH has funded over 300 studies that span the range from molecular biology to clinical application to therapeutic strategies. In 1994 alone, the NIDCD supported $11,185,000 in olfactory research, by far the largest amount expended for that purpose by any federal agency.
 1993
Dr. Thomas V. Getchell
Professor of Physiology & Biophysics
Associate Member of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging
Associate Dean for Research & Basic Sciences, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Dr. Getchell studies the fundamental properties of olfactory receptor neurons at the cell, membrane, and molecular levels. His research laboratory uses electrophysiological, biophysical, cell and molecular techniques to accomplish this. He introduced the concept of the role of perireceptor events in olfactory transduction, and was among the first to study expression cloning of olfactory-specific gene products in oocytes. His lab has also investigated the human olfactory and vomeronasal systems in subjects with Alzheimer?s and Parkinson?s disease.
Dr. Getchell has published nearly 100 scientific articles, review papers, and book chapters, as well as two books. He received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Northwestern University and taught at Yale University and Wayne State University before joining the University of Kentucky.
1992
Dr. Linda Buck
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Richard Axel
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute of Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
 1991
Dr. Maxwell M. Mozell
Dean, College of Graduate Studies
SUNY Health Science Center
1990
Dr. Morley R. Kare (1922 - 1990)
Professor of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania
Director, President & Founder, Monell Chemical Senses Center
1989
Dr. Fotoes Macrides
Principle Scientist, The Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology
 1988
Dr. Gordon M. Shepherd
Professor of Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine
 1987
Dr. Solomon H. Snyder
Distinguished Service Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
 1986
Dr. William S. Cain
Fellow, John B. Pierce Foundation Laboratory
Professor of Environmental Health and Psychology, Yale University
 1985
Dr. Trygg Engen
Professor of Psychology, Walter S. Hunter Laboratory of Psychology, Brown University
1984
Dr. Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
President Emeritus, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Chairman of the Board, Monell Chemical Senses Center
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