Citations for Chemical Breakthrough Awards
2021 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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J. Willard Gibbs | “On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances,” Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 1876, 3, 108 - 248; 1878, 3, 343 - 524. |
Yale University |
Kenichi Fukui, Teijiro Yonezawa, and Haruo Shingu |
“A Molecular Orbital Theory of Reactivity in Aromatic Hydrocarbons,” J. Chem. Physics 1952, 20, 722 - 725. |
Kyoto University * |
R. Noyori, T. Ohkuma, M. Kitamura, H. Takaya, N. Sayo, H. Kumobayashi, and S. Akutagawa |
“Asymmetric Hydrogenation of β-Keto Carboxylic Esters. A Practical, Purely Chemical Access to β-Hydroxy Esters in High Enantiomeric Purity,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1987, 109(10), 5856 - 5858. |
Nagoya University Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan Takasago International Corporation |