Citations for Chemical Breakthrough Awards

2022 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.)
August Kekulé	“Sur la constitution des substances aromatiques,” Bulletin de la Société Chimique de Paris 1865, 3, 98 - 110.	Ghent University
Joseph-Achille Le Bel	“Sur les relations qui existent entre les formules atomiques des corps organiques et le pouvoir rotatoire de leurs dissolutions,” Bulletin de la Société Chimique 1874, 22, 337 - 347.	Médecine de l'Université Paris-Cité*
Wendell M. Latimer and Worth H. Rodebush	“Polarity and Ionization from the Standpoint of the Lewis Theory of Valence,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1920, 42, 1419 - 1433.	University of California, Berkeley
Robert L. Letsinger and V. Mahadevan	“Stepwise Synthesis of Oligodeoxyribonucleotides on an Insoluble Polymer Support,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1966, 88, 5319 - 5324.	Northwestern University
Hideki Shirakawa, Edwin J. Louis, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Chwan K. Chiang, and Alan J. Heeger	“Synthesis of Electrically Conducting Organic Polymers: Halogen Derivatives of Polyacetylene (CH)x,” J. Chem. Soc., Chemical Communications 1977, 578 - 580.	University of Pennsylvania

*A recipient for the award plaque was not located and thus an award plaque was never manufactured. A draft of that plaque, however, was designed.