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Citations for Chemical Breakthrough Awards

2025 Awardees

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Scientists/Inventors Breakthrough Publication
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John Dalton A New System of Chemical Philosophy
R. Bickerstaff, London, 1808.
Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
A. J. P. Martin and R. L. M. Synge “A New Form of Chromatograph Employing Two Liquid Phases,” Biochemistry Journal 1941, 35, 1358-1368. Shirley Technologies, Limited
R. B. Woodward and W. E. Doering “The Total Synthesis of Quinine,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 1944, 66, 849. Harvard University
J. M. Bijvoet, A. F. Peerdeman, and A. J. van Bommel “Determination of the Absolute Configuration of Optically Active Compounds By Means of X-rays,” Nature 1951, 168, 271-272. University of Utrecht