Citations for Chemical Breakthrough Awards
2015 Awardees
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.) |
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Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Claude-Louis Berthollet, and Antoine-François de Fourcroy | “Méthode de Nomenclature Chimique,” chez Cuchet (sous le Privilége de l'Académie des Nomenclature Chimique), Paris, France, 1787. | Académie des Sciences (Paris) |
E. Frankland | “On a New Series of Organic Bodies containing Metals,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 1852, 142, 417-444. | The University of Manchester Photographs of the award ceremony, including descendants of Edward Frankland Symposium announcement from the University of Manchester |
P. Curie, M. Curie, and G. Bémont | “Sur une nouvelle substance fortement radioactive, contenue dans la pechblende,” Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris, 1898 (26 December), vol. 127, pp. 1215-1217. | ESPCI ParisTech (officially the école supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris; The City of Paris Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution) Photographs of the award ceremony and of the award plaque in its Parisian location |
D. Crowfoot, C. W. Bunn, B. W. Rogers-Low, A. Turner Jones | “The X-ray Crystallographic Investigation of the Structure of Penicillin,” in H.T. Clarke, J.R. Johnson, R. Robinson (editors), Chemistry of Penicillin, Princeton University Press, Chapter XI, pp. 310-366, 1949. | Oxford University |
H. W. Kroto, J. R. Heath, S. C. O'Brien, R. F. Curl, and R. E. Smalley | “C60: Buckminsterfullerene,” Nature 1985, 318, 162-163. | Rice University Photographs of the award presentation and Bob Curl at the C60 display at the Chemical Heritage Foundation Press Release by Rice University |