Citations for Chemical Breakthrough Awards
2008 Awardees
NOTE: Text in COLOR indicates a "live" link.
Scientists/Inventors |
Breakthrough Publication
(If text is in color, this is a live link to the plaque.) |
Location of Award
(If text is in color, this is a live link to photographs and other materials related to the presentation.) |
H. C. Brown and B. C. S. Rao |
“A New Technique for the Conversion of Olefins
into Organoboranes and Related Alcohols,”
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1956, 78, 5694-5695. |
Purdue University |
T. Katsuki and K. B. Sharpless |
“The First Practical Method for Asymmetric Epoxidation,”
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1980, 102, 5974-5976. |
Stanford University * |
G. Binnig and H. Rohrer |
“Scanning Tunneling Microscope,”
U.S. Patent 4,343,993 (10 August 1982),
assignors to International Business Machines Corporation. |
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon, Switzerland |
R. Adams (Senior Editor) |
First volume of Organic Reactions, John Wiley, 1942 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
J. A. Osborn, F. H. Jardine, J. F. Young and G. Wilkinson |
“The preparation and properties of
tris(triphenylphosphine)halogeno-rhodium(I) and some
reactions thereof including catalytic homogeneous
hydrogenation of olefins and acetylenes and their derivatives”
J. Chem. Soc. (A) 1966, 1711-1732. |
Imperial College London |
C. M. Hall |
“Process of Reducing Aluminium by Electrolysis”
US Patent 400,766 (April 2, 1889) |
Oberlin College and Oberlin Heritage Center
Norman Craig's Bulletin article on Hall's many aluminum patents |
* A duplicate plaque hangs at Scripps Research Institute.