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The officers and Award Committee members of the Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering of the American Chemical Society are extremely pleased to announce that the recipient of the first Roy W. Tess award in coatings is Dr William D. Emmons of the Rohm and Haas Company, Spring House, Pennsylvania. This award, established to recognise outstanding contributors in the fields of coatings science, technology and engineering, is given to Dr Emmons in acknowledgement of his significant enrichment of the patent literature, with over eighty patents in areas as diverse as adhesion promotion, ambientcuring systems, associative thickeners, reactive diluents, radiation‐curable monomers, and others. In over fifty journal publications, he has further enhanced his considerable reputation as a seminal thinker in the field of coatings science, and the body of work which he has created in his thirty‐five year career has established him as a key innovator in the industry. In addition, Dr Emmons, who received his B.S. from the University of Minnesota and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, has served on the editorial boards of various ACS journals, including the Journal of Organic Chemistry and Organic Syntheses. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Organic Syntheses, and has also served on the advisory board of Chemical and Engineering News. Dr Emmons will be presented the Tess award at the 192nd Meeting of th ACS, 7–12 September 1986 in Anaheim, California.