Green chemistry is the driving force behind many eco-friendly products and could play an important role in fostering sustainability; Three scientists, Vincent D’Amico, Emiel van Broekhoven, and Juha Jakkula invented an environmentally friendly process for making a key ingredient in the production of green gasoline; The American Chemical Society selected those three scientists as the 2010 winners of its Award for Affordable Green Chemistry

Prized Science’s launch episode is a three-part HD video featuring the research of Richard Zare, Ph.D., winner of the 2010 Priestley Medal, highest honor bestowed by ACS. The video highlights Zare’s work on the possibility that life existed on Mars; in developing the technology that helped scientists decode the human genome; and in pioneering efforts to enlist nanoparticles in medicine. Zare is the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science at Stanford University.