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- Anselme_Payen_Award comment "The Anselme Payen Award is an annual prize named in honor for the distinguished French scientist who discovered cellulose, and pioneered in the chemistry of both cellulose and lignin. In 1838, he discovered that treating successively wood with nitric acid and an alkaline solution yielded a major insoluble residue that he called \"cellulose\", while dissolved incrustants were later called \"lignin\" by Frank Schulze. He was the first to attempt separation of wood into its component parts.".