Citations for Chemical Breakthrough Awards

2021 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.)
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

* Plaque presented to the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, with a duplicate plaque sent to the the Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry, Kyoto University.